Justine Bateman
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Series
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English
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When Lisa Temple wakes up in the hospital, she remembers nothing - her name, who she is, her husband Paul's intention to divorce her or that she was badly beaten and left for dead in an alley. When Paul takes her home, Lisa must relearn everything from how food tastes to making love. As Lisa's memory returns, she uncovers some of the secrets of her past, both happy and tragic.
2) Highball
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English
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A newly married couple tries to enhance their social life by throwing parties in their Brooklyn home.
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English
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"Face is a book of fictional vignettes that examines the fear and vestigial evolutionary habits that have caused women and men to cultivate the imagined reality that older women's faces are unattractive, undesirable, and something to be "fixed." Based on "older face" experiences of the author, Justine Bateman, and those of dozens of women and men she interviewed, the book presents the reader with the many root causes for society's often negative attitudes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Mining decades of experience, writer, director, producer, and actress Justine Bateman writes a visceral, intimate look at the experience of fame. Combining the internal reality-shift of the famous, theories on the public's behavior at each stage of a famous person's career, and the experiences of other famous performers, Bateman takes the reader inside and outside the emotions of fame. The book includes twenty-four color photographs to highlight her...
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 2007, the Writers Guild of America (WGA), the labor union that represents writers in the American television and movie industry, hit an impasse in their contract negotiations with the Studios. At the center of the dispute was jurisdiction over the Internet. Unable to make progress, the WGA called a strike, which brought Hollywood to a halt for 100 Days. Using a blend of ground level strike footage, one-on-one interviews with key industry figures,...
6) The TV Set
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A television network is making a pilot of Mike's quirky comedy based on the aftermath of his brother's suicide. As the network suits ask for change after change, and as Mike struggles with compromise, there are strains on families, execs who show rushes to their children, leads who feel each other out, and assistants who put a smile on everything. Can an honest show get made in the world of reality TV chasing an audience of teen-aged boys?
8) Stick Fly
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English
Description
Two wealthy, African-American brothers take their girlfriends to their Martha's Vineyard home to meet their parents. However, events are set in motion that will expose long-standing secrets of personal and domestic strife.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Now a college sophomore, Alex falls in love with Ellen, a girl who's his total opposite. And Mallory falls for Nick, a junkyard sculptor who's her intellectual equal! But it's young Jennifer who feels off-balance, as she grows closer to mom Elyse but more distant from dad Steven now that she's becoming a teenager. But even with their older kids changing, and as baby Andrew's diapers still need changing, the Keaton parents know their four kids will...
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
[DVD].
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English
Description
A couple who were radicals in the '60s now face the problems of raising children in suburbia. With a young Republican for a son, one daughter that's only concerned with fashion, and another who is a tomboy, life is never dull in the Keaton household.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Ex-hippies Steven and Elyse are trying to raise their Young Republican son Alex, shallow daughter Mallory, and tomboy daughter Jennifer in Reagan-era America. In this season, Elyse tells Steven she is pregnant, and the family suffers through food cravings, Lamaze classes, and Elyse going into labor on television during Pledge Week. Plus, Alex starts college, Mallory gets a job she is actually good at, and Jennifer discovers boys.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The heart of this television series is the generation gap between former hippie parents and their square offspring. This season highlights the culture gap between Steven and Elyse Keaton and their three children: staunchly Republican Alex, fashion-mad Mallory and precocious Jennifer, as they tackle pre-marital sex, women's rights, and alcoholism.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Steven and Elyse Keaton have learned to accept their older children, but find it hard to accept the fact that they are practically grown up, with lives of their own: Alex is a junior in college and has a bank job; Jennifer fronts an all-girl rock band; and Mallory has left the mall behind for college where she is studying fashion.
15) Satisfaction
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Jennie Lee and her band, Mystery, get a summer gig in a beach town playing at a club owned by Martin, a former songwriter. Over the course of the summer they learn about life and love and play rock and roll.
17) Out of Order
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English
Description
Mark and Lorna, an enormously successful husband-and-wife screenwriting team, find their marriage and their careers on the line when Mark drifts into a casual affair, and Lorna becomes immersed in a world of clinical depression and chemical dependency.
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