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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play From the executive producers of & My So-Called Life& the Emmy Award-winning television series finally comes to DVD In 1987 we were introduced to a group of couples of friends "thirtysomethings" A dream cast of characters that from the very first episode resonated with a nation of people who knew these people all too well Michael & Hope Steadman the suburban "new parent" poster children; Elliot & Nancy Weston a couple whose marriage is falling apart; Gary Shepard the perpetually "twentysomething" thirtysomething; Melissa Steadman Michael&s cousin who is a struggling artist; & Ellyn Warren the driven but restless career-chaser thirtysomething channelled the consciousness of baby boomers into a running commentary on what it really meant to be on the cusp of success & failure marriage & divorce adulthood & parenthood Every week the show blurred the lines between television & film drama & comedy hard reality & twisted imagination Episodes Comprise 1 Pilot 2 The Parents Are Coming 3 Housewarming 4 Couples 5 But Not For Me 6 We Gather Together 7 Nice Work If You Can Get It 8 Weaning 9 I&ll Be Home For Christmas 10 South By Southeast 11 Therapy 12 Competition 13 Separation 14 I&m In Love I&m In Love I&m In Love I&m In Love With A Wonderful Gynecologist 15 Business As Usual 16 Accounts Receivable 17 Whose Forest Is This 18 Nancy&s First Date 19 Undone 20 Tenure 21 Born To Be Mild Actors Timothy Busfield Polly Draper Mel Harris Peter Horton Melanie Mayron Ken Olin & Patricia Wettig Certificate 12 years & over Languages English ...
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Few television programmes can claim to have the cultural resonance that &thirtysomething& did in the late 1980s Winner of four Emmy Awards the ground-breaking drama held up a mirror to a generation of young adults struggling to find a larger meaning to their existence Season Two picks up where everyone left off
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In this extraordinary non-fiction novel based on a true story Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who in 1971 took part in a failed coup attempt to oust King Hassan II of Morocco With sixty others Salim was incarcerated in a secret prison complex in the Moroccan desert he was to remain there for nearly twenty years In starkly eloquent beautiful prose Ben Jelloun relates the prisoners& experiences as they struggle to survive The son of a witty feckless courtier who disowns him Salim tells stories to keep sane - from the suras of his beloved Koran to the plot of A Streetcar Named Desire Even in the darkest most terrible conditions sympathy insight the human quest for meaning and understanding never desert Salim The resulting novel is a wrenching yet exquisite celebration of the
human spirit and its determination to survive &A masterpiece& Judges of the IMPAC award &a sad and splendid book& New York Times Book Review
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In this extraordinary non-fiction novel based on a true story Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who in 1971 took part in a failed coup attempt to oust King Hassan II of Morocco With sixty others Salim was incarcerated in a secret prison complex in the Moroccan desert he was to remain there for nearly twenty years In starkly eloquent beautiful prose Ben Jelloun relates the prisoners& experiences as they struggle to survive The son of a witty feckless courtier who disowns him Salim tells stories to keep sane
- from the suras of his beloved Koran to the plot of A Streetcar Named Desire Even in the darkest most terrible conditions sympathy insight the human quest for meaning & understanding never desert Salim The resulting novel is a wrenching yet exquisite celebration of the human spirit & its determination to survive &A masterpiece& Judges of the IMPAC award &a sad & splendid book& New York Times Book Review

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