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Nate Silver: In Hollywood, 'Nobody knows anything'
Predictability and the arts-and-entertainment world have an uneasy relationship. Predictability is a given — like the mouthfeel of a Big Mac — when it comes to, say, the punch lines on "Two and a Half Men" or the beats of your average...
Tags: Christoph Waltz, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Academy Awards, College Baseball, Twitter, Inc.
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Is city short of space to shoot?
According to Andy and Lana Wachowski, most of their films are set in Chicago — although none have actually shot here. When my colleague Chris Borrelli asked about this for a piece that ran in the Tribune last week, Lana Wachowski replied, "There...
Tags: Harry Potter (fictional character), Television, Lawndale (Chicago, Illinois), Channing Tatum, Arts and Culture
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Hollywood Park's ghost of a chance casts pall on Southland racing
With its announcement Thursday, Hollywood Park did little to refute the theory that horse racing is a sport in need of hospice. They raced at the Inglewood track Friday, but it wasn't business as usual. Nor will it be the rest of this meeting and the...
Tags: Lobbying, Sports, Los Angeles International Airport, Michael Jackson, Breeders' Cup
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What are the best movies based on books?
Less than a year after “The Great Gatsby” was published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald was paid $16,666 for the film rights. “Come and see it all!” beckons the trailer for the silent film. “And enjoy the entertainment thrill of...
Tags: There Will Be Blood (movie), Brideshead Revisited (movie, 2008), Anna Karenina (movie), Fiction, Colleges and Universities
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'Mortal Kombat' creator Ed Boon back with DC superhero game
Ed Boon was pulling punches. I could tell immediately: Why else would Aquaman be wiping the floor with Batman? Not to mention, I was playing Ed Boon in a video game, a fighting game, that Ed Boon, the king of the fighting-game genre, created. The game...
Tags: Times Square, Nintendo Company Ltd., Gaming Industry, Bankruptcy, Deception (movie)
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Inside 'Cloud Atlas' directors' Chicago workshop
The Wachowskis lie low. It's what they do. Indeed, They do it so well that when you meet the Wachowskis and ask them about their lying low, you find yourself reminding yourself: You have never really seen them before. Not really. They don't stand for...
Tags: Academy Awards, Architecture, Arts and Culture, Genres, Movies
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Kassopedia: The cure for Verpes, Rahmifications and Karen Lewis Withdrawal Syndrome
As I light my pipe, take up my quill pen and sheepskin and once again prepare to write another volume of The Kassopedia — the repository of the world's great knowledge — I'm reminded of a snarky reader. She calls herself, "Your long...
Tags: Preschools, Danny K. Davis, Chicago Teachers Union, Hot Dogs, Elections
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Movie makeup: The good, the bad and the 'J. Edgar'
Attention, vampires. Later this week, while you're watching the final installment in the "Twilight" series, if the quality of the new film is consistent with the earlier films, well, you will probably find yourself wondering if it's just you or do all...
Tags: Cloud Atlas (movie), Lincoln (movie, 2012), Movies, Halle Berry, Hyde Park on Hudson (movie)
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Robinson actor swings for the fences
There is the legend. There is the truth. Then there are the movies. In the movie-poster parlance of Warner Bros.' "42," its new Jackie Robinson biopic is "the true story of an American legend." Truer words about an American legend have never been...
Tags: Marketing, Atlanta Braves, The Express (movie), 42 (movie), College Baseball
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The incredible Steve Carell
TOLUCA LAKE, Calif. — Looking trim in a black windbreaker over a gray crew neck sweatshirt, Steve Carell walked into the diner near the Warner Bros. lot just like a regular guy. OK, most actors/celebrities walk into diners like regular folk; it&...
Tags: Will Ferrell, Steve Buscemi, Meryl Streep, Music, Hope Springs (movie)
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What reception will 'Great Gatsby' get on Cannes' opening night?
I mean, look, said Baz Luhrmann, the cinematically manic auteur behind the new edition of “The Great Gatsby.” Who cares if his movie about obscene wealth and romantic illusions got mixed reviews in the U.S.? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925...
Tags: Carey Mulligan, Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Casablanca (movie), Arts and Culture, Cannes Film Festival
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America's eyes and ears, and funnybone: Chris Erskine
Sometimes what I think the Pulitzer committee is after, humor-wise, isn't just one epic exposé, as per last week's gem on rotten-tomato fights. It's a body of hard-hitting work. That's what leads me to this steamy parking garage in Burbank, looking for...
Tags: Conan O'Brien, Joseph Pulitzer, Journalism, Conan (tv program), Talk Shows (genre)
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