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Mikki del Monico's Alto uses Italian-American culture as a jumping-off point for an LGBT screwball comedy. Frankie (Diana DeGarmo), lead singer in a local band, works in an Italian restaurant with her fiancé, Tony (Jake Robards), who plans to start his own line of frozen foods. Tony figures that Frankie will give up her dream of a music career once they're married, but she can't imagine doing anything else. Frankie's manicurist sister Heather (Melanie Minichino) is addicted to the show Mob Hit, which Frankie feels perpetuates stereotypes about Italian-Americans, although her family certainly flirts with a few—like her father (David Valcin), who collects Dean Martin tapes and has a special affection for The Godfather theme. When Frankie's group, the Altos, rents a car for a gig, they're shocked to find a body in the trunk. Out of curiosity, Frankie and Heather attend a wake for the victim, where they meet Nicky (Natalie Knepp), a Don's daughter, who takes a shine to Frankie. Nicky also works on Mob Hit, and she encourages Frankie to appear on the show. The women's ensuing friendship attracts the attention of the FBI, although neither is involved in any criminal activity. As Frankie develops feelings for Nicky, the plot becomes increasingly complicated as misunderstandings develop between characters, including Nicky's father (Billy Wirth) and Frankie's divorced parents (Annabella Sciorra plays her mother). Director del Monico splices and dices influences ranging from The Sopranos to Married to the Mob, and while it doesn't all work, American Idol star DeGarmo—who does her own singing—makes for a sympathetic protagonist. A strong optional purchase. (K. Fennessy)

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ON THE ROAD: The Original Scroll. Jack Kerouac. Special 50th Anniversary Edition. Viking/Penguin.

This book by JackKerouac marked the birth of a new culture; even though Rock and Roll predates the release of Road, it nonetheless was Jack Kerouac’s words that tied the vision of the youth together and offered some semblance of meaning to a war-torn and confused America. Once they found this book, the kids never looked back — suddenly infused with holy energy, mad-eyed, chasing ghosts through the rusty moonlit dusk. Make no mistake – On the Road was the great beginning of it – the seed of the inspiration, the first step in a journey that wouldn’t end for some 25 years (inspiring musicians like Bob Dylan and cultural movements like the San Francisco Summer of Love along the way). Road tells the story of the friendship between Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty (Kerouac and Neal Cassidy, respectively), chronicling their travels scene-by-scene as they flew down the lost roads of these primitive Americas. This particular edition recently released by Viking celebrates the 50 birthday of the world-shaking novel, presenting it to readers just as Kerouac had penned it in 1951: One continual flow of words in a single paragraph taped together and unfolding as this perfect ‘scroll.’ Simply, this was Kerouac’s first holy book and it would come to christen the visions of several wayward generations that followed.

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THE QUIET GIRL. Peter Hoeg. Audio Renaissance.

This audio is quite a literary achievement in that it brings the idea of the novel back to its classical underpinnings – Quiet Girl a book that grips the reader with its deep sensibilities and then refuses to let go. Hoeg is

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