Stanley Tucci

Presents more than two hundred authentic Italian recipes and shares authors' family stories.

Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

The sultry young wife of a diner owner conspires with an aimless drifter to murder her husband.

An American journalist returns to Berlin in 1945 for the Potsdam Conference and to find his German mistress, the married woman he left behind, only to stumble on a murdered American soldier, corruption, and intrigue.

Roy and Frankie are matchstick men-con artist. Partners in crime for years, they know each other like brothers, and have perfected the rules of the game. Roy is the careful one. Saves every penny. Takes his medication regularly. Without it, his obsessive-compulsive disorder kicks in and he is too nauseated to do anything but stare at the dirt on the carpet. Frankie is the adventuous one, hungry for a big score. He wants Roy to join him in running...

In a nation that loved gossip, Walter Winchell loved gossip, and the nation couldn't help but love Winchell. From young starlets to aging businessmen, from presidents to purse snatchers, Winchell didn't just report the news...he made it.

Julia Child's life with her husband in Paris is intertwined with the life of thirty-year-old Queens resident Julie Powell who decides to cook every recipe in Child's book "Mastering the art of French cooking" over the course of one year.

Tragedy meets comedy when a bumbling yet passionate man travels to America from Italy to help save his famly's fireworks business and all hell breaks loose. A funny, heartwarming tale about a family steeped in tradition.

The story of two brothers whose Italian restaurant is on the brink of bankruptcy. Their only chance for success is to risk everything they own on an extravagant feast for bandleader Louis Prima. But their big night is complicated by a lovers' triangle, a sneaky restaurant rival, and the hilarious perfection of chef Primo.

Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the evil Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games, a nationally televised event in which 'Tributes' must fight with each other until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for the games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts to make impossible...