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Full Length, Comedy. Characters: 7 male, 8 female . Unit set.. Television mogul Jacque St. Yves invites eleven has been comics to his island lodge off the Canadian coast to audition for the central in role his new TV series. It's an opportunity to die for ... and that is someone's intention! Shortly after arriving, the comics find they are stranded along with the pilot of St. Yves's private jet, the attractive flight attendant and the couple employed as housekeeper and handyman. That night, the housekeeper disappears during a violent thunderstorm and her husband drops dead after ingesting candy that any of them could have sampled. Laughs and chills abound until the startling truth emerges and the tension mounts.
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Do you want to read a "feel good" story? Are you ready to be inspired? Last of the Redmen is a coming of age story about an underdog named Billy Mitaritonna from Rosedale, Queens in New York. This memoir chronicles the supportive relationship between Billy and his father Angelo, who used sports to teach life lessons. Billy went through personal setbacks as a teenager that he needed to overcome. He loved the game of basketball but was cut from the Archbishop Molloy basketball team all 4 years in high school. With the guidance of his father Angelo, he did not quit despite the odds, and played Division 3 basketball for Jim Graffam at Westbrook College in Portland, Maine. After 2 years, he moved...
Billy is a homeless man living under an interstate overpass. He befriends two other men while dealing with the everyday trials of those living rough. The friends find their way to the All-Faith Christian Mission for a lunch. Why does the minister who runs All-Faith read the Bible to the men? What is the message he should get from a Bible reading? Why should he believe in a God? There seems to be a variety of churches calling themselves Christians. Why? If he's given a chance to get off the street, should he take it or revert to his homeless and free-living lifestyle? This story is a journey with Billy learning and questioning, all the while wondering what he should do next. Questions, questions...
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Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid’s charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life—and that only multiplied, growing to legendary proportions after his death at age twenty-one. In Thunder in the West, Richard W. Etulain takes the true measure of Billy, the man and the legend, and presents the clearest picture yet of his life and his ever-shifting place and presence in the cultural landscape of the Old West. Billy the Kid—born Henry McCarty in 1859, and also known as William H. Bonney—emerges from these pages in all his complexity, at once a gentleman and gregarious companion, and a thief and violent murderer. Tapping new depth...
In 1989 alone, for example, there were some forty-five major motion pictures which were sequels or part of a series. The film series phenomenon crosses all genres and has been around since the silent film era. This reference guide, in alphabetical order, lists some 906 English Language motion pictures, from 1899 to 1990, when the book was initially published. A brief plot description is given for each series entry, followed by the individual film titles with corresponding years, directors and performers. Animated pictures, documentaries and concert films are not included but movies released direct to video are.
The story begins in the projects of the South Bronx, New York. There we will meet Sarah Williams, a single mother of twin girls Michelle and Miranda and son Jason. The Williams' family struggles to break the cycle of poverty in the face of gangs, drugs, and prostitution. Jason, the youngest attemtps to assert his role as "man of the house," but is overwhelmed by the task at hand. Thinking that he is just one more mouth to feed, he leaves in the middle of the night and begins his life on the streets of New York city. We follow Jason as he negotiates his new world. With the thought the he will some day be reunited with his family he makes clandestine visits to the project to see if Sarah and his sisters are still surviving. On one such visit he discovers that they have been driven from the apartment and their whereabouts are unknown. Desperate, alone, and hopeless, Jason decides to end his life in the cathedral for the homeless, Grand Central Station. Under a stairwell, hidden by the shadows, Jason lies dying as the blood drains from his body. He is alone in a horde of thousand of commuters. Rescued by his former basketball coach, his journey begins.
Mystery Comedy / Characters: 7 male, 9 female When powerful millionaire Victor Winslow, producer of a popular T.V. soap opera, invites members of the cast and crew to his mansion for a party, none dares refuse. Winslow informs his guests that he has assembled them to help him develop a new murder mystery game he's invented called "13 Past Midnight." But before the game begins, the host gives the players ample motives to want to kill him - for real! But the game becomes deadly when Victor is di