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A perilous journey for 'Life of Pi' director Ang Lee
The critics and reporters assembled to watch the new “Life of Pi” a few weeks ago weren't expecting a filmmaker introduction, but in stepped the ever-soft-spoken Ang Lee to inform them that this had been his hardest film to make and that...
Tags: Pacific Ocean, Woodstock Festival (1969), New York Film Festival, James Schamus, Ang Lee
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'Smashed': Drama's watered down in this lesson about the drinking life ★★ 1/2
The director's statement issued with “Smashed” reads, in part: "Being drunk can be really fun. It's just all the other things that come with being drunk that can be a downer (wrecking cars, lives, etc.) ... so many films that deal with...
Tags: Entertainment, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (movie), Substance Abuse, Aaron Paul, The Help (movie)
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No happy tears in this political drama
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a big crybaby. Especially at the movies. If the dog dies, well, just forget it, I'm a plate of quivering Jell-O. When the man asks the ghost of his father for a game of catch, I'm a blubbering fool. When the warrior...
Tags: Human Interest, Dentistry and Dental Health, Local Elections, Elections, Local Government
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Screen play a hit for Alabama in 21-17 win over LSU
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Until they break up the Bowl Championship Series in two years, the only thing left to do is shake it up. Tiger Stadium, on a Saturday night, seemed a perfect place to do it. Pittsburgh had a similar thought at South Bend and USC...
Tags: Alabama Crimson Tide, Sports, Bowl Championship Series, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, LSU Tigers
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'Faith Healer' to be remounted
A huge hit 17 years ago at both the Turnaround and Steppenwolf Theatres, the Chicago production of Brian Friel's Irish drama "Faith Healer" is to be remounted in December, replete with its original director, JR Sullivan, and the original cast of Brad...Tags: Wicker Park, Arts and Culture
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Mondavi taught us to find life in wine
Robert Mondavi was to California wine what Julia Child was to French food in the United States. He turned on generations of thirsty North Americans to the possibilities wine has to offer. And while it took a movie starring Meryl Streep to make Child a...
Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Constellation Brands Incorporated, Wines, France, New Products
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Q&A: Chicago-native 'Mr. Sophistication' star Harry Lennix
In the excellent new drama “Mr. Sophistication,” veteran comedian/actor Ron Waters (Chicago-native Harry Lennix) is tempted by the notion that fame means he exists on a different level in society. “I think any honest celebrity would see...
Tags: Chicago International Film Festival, David Schwimmer, Baseball, Henry Cavill, Artists
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'For Ellen' review: To make a short story long ...
** (out of four) There may be a terrific short film living inside “For Ellen,” writer-director So Yong Kim's drama about rocker Joby Taylor's (Paul Dano) last-ditch effort to connect with his estranged 6-year-old daughter, Ellen (Shaylena...
Tags: Entertainment, For Ellen (movie), Paul Dano, Music, Margarita Levieva
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Irish a BCS team in good (goal-line) standing
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Forget what the Notre Dame Stadium ticket brochures say. The best seat in the house is in the defensive huddle before a goal-line stand. One day NBC will figure out how to stick a camera in the middle of all those gold helmets to...
Tags: Entertainment, NBC (tv network), Ice Hockey, Sports, Bowl Championship Series
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Win-or-go-home games becoming norm
Once upon a time, the chance to go to Great American Ball Park and watch the Reds play a win-or-go-home game in the playoffs would have been the chance of a lifetime for fans in Cincinnati. The franchise hadn't played one since 1975, and that was at...
Tags: Jayson Werth, Derek Jeter, Oakland Athletics, Stephen Strasburg, Brandon Phillips
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Video/Q&A: 'Argo' star/director Ben Affleck
Years after Ben Affleck directed critical and commercial successes “Gone Baby Gone” and “The Town,” many stories still peg the director/actor’s latest effort “Argo” as a comeback. “That narrative has been...
Tags: Alan Arkin, Rachel McAdams, Baseball, Terrence Malick, Kevin Pollak
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A tale of two transfers
The widely admired Circle Theatre production of the moving Australian drama "When the Rain Stops Falling" (penned by Andrew Bovell) is moving from Oak Park to Chicago. John Gawlik's production will reopen in January at the Greenhouse Theatre Center on...Tags: Richard Pryor, Arts and Culture
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