Eileen Brennan

No matter how hard he tries, Dirtball Pete is always a mess, and even after his mother scrubs him clean for a school recital to show others what a beautiful and special boy he is, he seems destined to live up to his name.

Gently comic story of a fourth wise man, Artaban, who sells all he has to buy a gift for the new king whose star has just appeared in the heavens, and pursues him all his life long, only to miss him--until the very end of both lives.

An invitation to dinner...and a murder is sent to five world famous detectives by Lionel Twain (Truman Capote), an eccentric millionaire living in an isolated, gloomy estate in northern California.

While Pippi is sailing with her sea captain father, she is suddenly washed overboard and lost in a fierce storm. Pippi eventually drifts ashore to a small coastal town where she sets up house in an ancient vacated mansion. There, with her horse and monkey, Pippi begins a new life without any adult supervision.

Max, just out of prison, plans to open a car wash in Pittsburgh. Lionel, back from five years at sea, wants to visit the child he's never seen. Meeting on the road, the two forge a touching friendship tempered through hard times.

Continuing his 1970s recreations of classical Hollywood genres and styles, Peter Bogdanovich turned to the literary costume drama with an adaptation of the Henry James novella *Daisy Miller*. At a Swiss spa, upper-class expatriate American Frederick Winterbourne (Barry Brown) meets pretty, nouveau riche flirt Daisy Miller (Cybill Shepherd); her bratty, xenophobic little brother Randolph (James McMurtry); and her tremulous, nattering mother (Cloris...

Based on a series of interviews with real working people--construction workers, waitresses, firemen, secretaries and cleaning women. An exploration of the individuals' occupations and a lament for lost hopes and dreams.

The story of Stella and her struggles, as a single parent, to raise her daughter, Jennifer.