Steve Martin
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"Number One Is Walking is Steve Martin's cinematic legacy-an illustrated memoir of his legendary acting career, with stories from his most popular films and artwork by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss. Steve Martin has never written about his career in the movies before. In Number One Is Walking, he shares anecdotes from the sets of his beloved films-Father of the Bride, Roxanne, The Jerk, Three Amigos, and many more-bringing readers directly into...
22) Late for school
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A boy finds adventure, danger, and fun as he races around the house and through the neighborhood in order to make it to school on time.
26) The ten, make that nine, habits of very organized people. Make that ten: the tweets of Steve Martin
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With over 1.4 million followers (a number growing by the day), and a now famously uncanny ability to pack 140 characters with a maximum amount of humor and wit, Steve Martin has defined what it means to be a celebrity in today's world of social media. Martin's tweets have been covered by personal blogs, major news outlets, and everything in between, and this collection brings his funniest, most memorable messages together for avid followers and offline...
29) Housesitter
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Shortly after an architect's girlfriend turns down his marriage proposal, he encounters a woman who decides on her own to move into his empty dream house and pass herself off as his new wife--with hilarious and romantic consequences.
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Comedy filmed on the Riviera, it's the story of two con men who compete to see who can extract $50,000 from a woman first. The victim is a naive American heiress, and the competition between the two men, one a suave and sophisticated Englishman and the other a bumbling but appealing American, heats up!
33) All of me
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Martin plays a lawyer who would rather be a jazz musician. Tomlin plays a terminally ill spinster who intends to have her soul transported into the beautiful body of a stable hand's daughter. Her soul takes over the right side of Martin's body.
35) Roxanne
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Roxanne confides her interest to the secretly smitten C.D., who reluctantly passes it on to Chris. But Chris is dumbstruck, and convinces C.D. to ghost-write a letter to Roxanne-one that, unbeknownst to Chris, is an outpouring of C.D.'s own feelings for her.
36) Home
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A lovable misfit from another planet meets a girl named Tip. The two unlikely friends embark on the greatest journey of all time.
37) My blue heaven
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The FBI's Witness Protection Program is turned funnyside up when mob informant Vinnie Antonelli and agent Barney Coopersmith are on a caper. Vinnie's got smooth moves, a swank wardrobe and a mean dance step. His identity, home and lawn mower are new, but he's still the same: a guy with an eternal scam. That makes overseer Barney a guy with a huge headache.
38) L.A. story
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A wacky television weatherman thinks his life is perfect except for an erratic relationship with a style-conscious girlfriend. Then, one bright and smoggy L.A. day, an electronic freeway sign changes his life, when its advice leads him into a frivolous romance with a young and beautiful blond and, ultimately, to true love with the woman of his dreams.
39) The big year
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Looking to shake up their routine lives, three amateur bird watchers compete to become the ultimate 'birder' by spotting the greatest number of species within a single calendar year. But the friendly rivalry soon turns into a hilariously complicated cross-country adventure as each man begins to realize that the quest for success comes at a price, and that's not chicken feed!