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Product Description: Men of the 1990s face a dilemma when it comes to manners. Nichols takes a humorous look at how today's man should behave in a variety of circumstances.

Product Description: A Writers Guild Award nominee for Best Screenplay, here is the complete script and special section "Talking with Nichols," with the director's comments on actors, directing, comedy, collaborations and more; commentaries on the production by Robin Williams, Nathan Lane and others involved in the film, stills, and complete cast and crew credits...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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A small midwestern town is thrown into upheaval when beautiful lawyer Sandy, believed to be one-half of a golden couple, is left in a coma after a terrible car crash, and questions about her seemingly devastated husband, Will, come up when it is revealed that Sandy had an affair and her ex-lover has been murdered. Reprint.

Product Description: In the character Balaam Gimble, Mike Nichols has created a knight-errant of contemporary rural Texas: a Joe Don Quixote. Granted, Balaam's trusty steed may be only a rusty Frankenford-a twenty-three-year-old Ford pickup, reanimated time and again by the transplantation of parts from pickup cadavers, but the giants that Balaam tilts against are real enough to him-a ruthless businessman, a masseur-turned-dirty trickster, a money-mad hometown, and, most of all, plain old change...read more

The former artistic producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre and a noted playwright team up to explore the nature of the performing arts, looking at the way today's respected stage and film actors approach their calling, how they deal with directors and fellow cast members, how they use their own lives in their work, and what makes them take up an acting career. Original.

Product Description: Vegetables that are easy to grow - potatoes, onions, tomatoes - provide economic, social and nutritional advantages and can make significant differences to smallholder livelihoods. With this booklet, policy-makers and development personnel will recognize the opportunities that are available for producing and marketing quality vegetables...read more