Audie Award Nominee, Best Solo Narration, 2013Jerzy Kosinski’s clever parable of a naive man thrust into the modern world is more pointed now than ever. Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man, The Graduate), perhaps best known for his portrayals of vulnerable characters and antiheroes, gives an understated and exemplary performance of this satiric look at the unreality of American media culture.Chance, the enigmatic gardener, becomes Chauncey Gardiner after getting hit by a limo belonging to a Wall Street tycoon. The whirlwind that follows brings Chance to his new status of political policy advisor and possible vice presidential candidate. His garden-variety political responses, inspired by television, become heralded as visionary, and he is soon a media icon due to his unknown background and vague, yet appealing, conversational nature. Being There was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, starring Peter Sellers as Chance, in 1979.Being There is part of Audible’s A-List Collection, featuring the world’s most celebrated actors narrating distinguished works of literature that each star helped select.

To coincide with the 20th Century Fox CGI release of Horton Hears a Who!, three delightful Seuss classics--Horton Hears a Who!, Horton Hatches the Egg, and Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose--are gathered into one audio collection. Read by Dustin Hoffman, Billy Crystal, & Mercedes McCambridge.

A movie lover's celebration of unforgettable moments on the big screen focuses on twenty-five memorable film memories from such cinematic treasures as Casablanca, E.T., The Graduate, and Pulp Fiction, along with firsthand insights, insider anecdotes, facts, more than two hundred photographs, and an accompanying DVD.