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Oscar Micheaux: A legend's links
Leroy Collins never says anything about it. He never tells his neighbors he was once a movie star — once. Collins is 89 and lives by himself in the Montgomery Place retirement community in Hyde Park. Scientists who worked on the Manhattan...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Charlie Chaplin, Arts and Culture, Celebrities, Bronzeville
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'The Big Picture': Camera-shy photographer a man with a secret ★★★
Hiding inside the identity of someone else — someone recently disappeared, or murdered, for example — is a theme running through all sorts of crime fiction (Patricia Highsmith's Ripley mysteries) as well as cinematic variations on that theme...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Croatia, Movies, Photography, Niels Arestrup
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'Pippin' makes long-awaited return to Broadway
If you’re a community theater regular, or even attended high school or college musicals, you’re likely familiar with the lively, foot-tappin’ tunes of “Pippin.” It’s the story of a young prince, son of the French King...
Tags: Ben Vereen, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, Benjamin Millepied, Bob Fosse
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'West of Memphis': Trio still seeking justice ★★★
For astonishing injustice put to rest, at long last, the moviegoer has at least two options. One: "Les Miserables." And two: "West of Memphis," a strong, blood-boiling documentary from director Amy Berg, who made the similarly fine "Deliver Us From Evil,"...
Tags: West of Memphis (movie), Les Miserables (musical), Pearl Jam (music group), Johnny Depp, Movies
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'North Sea, Texas': Belgian boy finds a soul mate
Fragile and romantic, the well-acted Belgian coming-of-age drama "North Sea, Texas" depicts the tentative steps from friendship to love that consume a lonely 14-year-old boy in a small coastal town. Gay, introverted and neglected by his accordion-...
Tags: Human Interest, Music, Entertainment
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Music Box festival celebrates 70mm projection
It's how a lot of us got hooked on movies in the first place. When I was 8 or 9 I saw "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 70 mm in Milwaukee with my mother. My memory's fuzzy on the particulars but I recall asking so many questions about the obelisk on the drive...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Paul Thomas Anderson, Richard Brooks, The Master (movie), 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie)
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Midwest native looks east in 'Somewhere Between'
"I am a child stuck between two countries," says 15-year-old Fang "Jenni" Lee in the insightful new documentary "Somewhere Between." Adopted at age 5 and raised in Berkeley, Calif., she is one of roughly 80,000 girls who have come to the U.S. since...
Tags: Arts and Culture, John Krasinski, Promised Land (movie), China, Entertainment
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From novel to film to musical, 'Big Fish' has a date with Broadway
The new musical “Big Fish” has itself reeled in a big catch: the Neil Simon Theatre. Based on Daniel Wallace’s 1998 novel and the 2003 film directed by Tim Burton, the in-development production has had its eye on Broadway for several...Tags: Broadway Theater, Arts and Culture, Ewan McGregor, Entertainment Events, Maria Bamford
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No hockey? Watch "Slap Shot" with us. (This event sold out)
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman locked out the players on Sept. 15. Since then, he has decided to hold his breath until he turns blue. No NHL hockey. No hope, either. This made hockey fans sad, even those in Columbus. Then Stevie Sunshine had an idea: If we...
Tags: National Hockey League, Gary Bettman, Skype, Music, Paul Newman
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'Slap Shot' screening cures hockey blues
The prospect of a winter without pucks draws closer to reality as each day concludes without movement in the NHL's labor dispute. Enthusiasts of the most electric spectator sport in the world gradually have moved away from disgust and anger to a feeling...
Tags: United Center, National Hockey League, Chicago Blackhawks, Patrick Kane, Ice Hockey
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'Dead Accounts' on Broadway: Reality's in short supply in this mystery
NEW YORK — At this juncture in what must at times be a very surreal life, Katie Holmes, a tabloid staple and yet a favorite daughter of Toledo, Ohio, now finds herself on Broadway in a play by Theresa Rebeck, playing a lower-middle-class character...
Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Judy Greer
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Richard Wagner: Separating the man from the music
"Just because he may have been a nasty little man and a nasty anti-Semite doesn't mean that his music is not as supreme as it is." That assessment comes from a Richard Wagner scholar in the documentary "Wagner & Me" (at the Siskel Film Center through...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Heroin, BBC, Entertainment Events, YouTube
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