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From the baseball diamond to the boardroom
The Harvard University economics grad who upended centuries of baseball thinking, bringing his computer and fresh statistical formulas into the Oakland A's war room, is going to help Sears find out if it has game. Translating Major League Baseball...Tags: New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, New York Mets, Moneyball (movie), San Diego Padres
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'Alpha' leads Amazon's pilot pack
Not content to just sell us books, lawn implements, baseball bats, printers, devices to read books on, bar tools, printer paper, used printers, ink cartridges, used ink cartridges and automobile floor mats — did I miss anything? — Amazon is...
Tags: Media Industry, Amazon.com Inc., Emma Stone, Tea Party Movement, Jeffrey Tambor
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Steve Jobs' approach a lesson for Broadway's 'Motown'
In 2011, Nick Bilton of The New York Times asked Walter Isaacson, the biographer of Steve Jobs, an interesting question: "Did he try to control what you wrote in the book?" "I anticipated that," Isaacson replied. "But he didn't. He kept surprising me by...
Tags: Michael Jackson, Media Industry, The Social Network (movie) , Cirque du Soleil, Culture
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Goldberg: The wisdom of Dan Quayle
Almost exactly 20 years ago, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead wrote a controversial essay for the Atlantic titled "Dan Quayle Was Right." In case you forgot (or never knew), let me fill you in on what Quayle was right about. There once was a popular sitcom...
Tags: Social Sciences, Culture, The Newsroom (tv program), Arts and Culture, Candice Bergen
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What does hate-watching mean?
Anne Hathaway — insufferable, grating, insistently chipper, with those big stupid puppy-dog eyes and that dumb pixie hair, shocked, shocked, at the fortune and appreciation bestowed on her talented head, so rehearsed in her faux-humility, so...
Tags: Tina Fey, Fox News Channel (tv network), Lollapalooza, Scranton, Awards and Prizes
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Alewives: Justin Bieber, Honey Boo Boo, Riccardo Muti and more
Alewives are the stinky fish that used to wash up en masse on Lake Michigan beaches. So it is that we bring you the 17th annual Alewife Awards to commemorate the rankest cultural flotsam and jetsam to hit our shores over the past year. Memo to vendors:...
Tags: David Foster Wallace, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Awards and Prizes, The Chicago Code (tv program), Lauryn Hill
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Cromer shows up in Sorkin pilot
You never know where David Cromer is going to pop up. Here he is asking the tough questions in the pilot for Aaron Sorkin's new HBO drama, "The Newsroom" which also stars Jeff Daniels, another Midwestern theater guy, and Jane Fonda. Cromer is currently...Tags: The Newsroom (tv program), Jeff Daniels
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Quick-witted 'Motion' leaves this cast flat-footed
Dramas about sports are enjoying a renaissance: "Moneyball"is an Oscar contender, "Magic/Bird" is on its way to Broadway and, here in Chicago, the Jackie Robinson play "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting" is packing them in at the Lookingglass Theatre. So Ronan...Tags: Moneyball (movie), Arts and Culture
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'Moneyball': The Un-'Natural'
Director Bennett Miller’s “Moneyball” is the perfect sports movie for these cash-strapped times of efficiency maximization. It's also the best sports movie in a long time, period, as well as honestly inspirational — even though...Tags: Heart Murmur, New York Mets, Stanford University, Bennett Miller, Documentary (genre)
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21 Best Things on Cable TV in 2012 (and Boo Boo, too!)
Channel Guide Magazine21 Best Things on Cable TV in 2012 counts down the top shows, moments, trends and more that made 2012 an unforgettable year in cable TV. The Biggest, The Best … And Boo Boo, Too! If The World Ends In 2012, At Least There Was Something Good On Cable.... -
“The Newsroom” episode 10 recap: The Greater Fool
Channel Guide MagazineBy Matthew Grimm What have we learned from Season 1 of Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom? What we were supposed to learn was that some things matter and some things don’t. We know from the Real Life The Newsroom mirrors that America has been ushered...
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