Alan Alda
Author
Language
English
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Find Your Voice: Communication
Read-Alikes for How to Know a Person
Read-Alikes for Talking to Strangers
Read-Alikes for How to Know a Person
Read-Alikes for Talking to Strangers
Description
The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
5) Itzhak
Publisher
Greenwich
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Itzhak Perlman's violin playing transcends mere performance to evoke the celebrations and struggles of real life. Alison Chernick's film looks beyond the sublime musician, to see the polio survivor whose parents emigrated from Poland to Israel, the young man who struggled to be taken seriously as a music student when schools saw only his disability. As charming and entrancing as the famous violinist himself, it is a portrait of musical virtuosity...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Alan Alda follows in Charles Darwin's footsteps, meeting the animals and birds that inspired Darwin's theory of evolution. Alda joins scientists who witness the daily struggle for survival that has shaped the Galapagos Islands' unique wildlife. As he experiences the enchantment of the islands, he learns of efforts to protect them from alien invaders-including the 60,000 eco-tourists who visit every year.
7) Itzhak
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From Schubert to Strauss, Bach to Brahms, Mozart to...Billy Joel, Itzhak Perlman's violin playing transcends mere performance to evoke the celebrations and struggles of real life; "praying with the violin," says renowned Tel Aviv violinmaker Amnon Weinstein. This enchanting documentary looks beyond the sublime musician, to see the polio survivor whose parents emigrated from Poland to Israel, the young man who struggled to be taken seriously as a music...
8) Mad City
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A network television journalist is banished to a backwater station for bad behavior on the job. He meets a security guard who got laid off and the two form a bond of mutual need which changes the course of their lives forever.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Refusing to name his new son until he meets his birth parents, Mel Coplin (Stiller) sets out on a cross-country journey, quickly encountering a hilarious series of clerical errors, mistaken identities, misplaced friends, and super-charged libidos in this outrageous dark comedy.
10) What Women Want
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
After an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.
11) Marriage story
Series
Criterion collection volume 1038
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together. A hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Charlie is a charismatic New York theater director wedded to his work. Nicole is an actor who is ready to change her own life. Their hopes for an amicable divorce fade as they are drawn into a system that pits them against each other and forces them to redefine...
13) The aviator
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Howard Hughes was a rich young man from Texas, heir to his father's fortune, when he decided he wanted to make movies. Age 21, he made the most expensive Hollywood film ever (at the time); and went on to break air-speed records, make another fortune in aircraft design, smash Charles Lindbergh's round-the-world flight record, and be romantically linked with almost all of Hollywood's famous beauties. Nevertheless, he died alone, sealed into a room he...
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