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Bad taste, and on such a large scale
It should be good news that a giant statue of a woman rose over one of Chicago's most conspicuous public spaces this week. Chicago, a city that has almost as many statues as it has potholes, is notoriously short on statues of women. Mile after...Tags: Tour Operations Industry, Fine Artists, Michigan Avenue, Manhattan (New York City), Tribune Tower
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Oscar nominations a blast from the past
![John Osborne wrote the key post-World War II British drama "Look Back in Anger," later filmed in 1959. By contrast there’s very little anger in all the look-backs among this year’s Academy Award nominations. Oscar's unofficial slogan in early 2012 is more like "Look Back with Bittersweet Nostalgia at the Industry’s Salad Days."](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-01/67591589-24093910.jpg "John Osborne wrote the key post-World War II British drama "Look Back in Anger,\" later filmed in 1959. By contrast there’s very little anger in all the look-backs among this year’s Academy Award nominations. Oscar's unofficial slogan in early 2012 is more like \"Look Back with Bittersweet Nostalgia at the Industry’s Salad Days.\"")
John Osborne wrote the key post-World War II British drama "Look Back in Anger," later filmed in 1959. By contrast there’s very little anger in all the look-backs among this year’s Academy Award nominations. Oscar's unofficial slogan in...Tags: Glenn Close, Albert Brooks, The Help (movie), Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture
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Finding the perfect gift
My eighth birthday was my only birthday party. In attendance was our friend Terry, his sister Barbara, my cousin Elaine, my brother and me. Mom made a vanilla cake with lots of chocolate icing, and my cousin gave me some used colored pencils in a...Tags: Toys "R" Us, Inc.
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Will drama, music, romance draw viewers to 'Smash' on NBC?
![Without the freaks and geeks of "Glee,"who made long-skeptical network executives suddenly receptive to prime-time characters singing and dancing, there would be no "Smash."But NBC's eminently watchable and shrewdly crafted new drama series, which premieres Feb. 6 after a heavy marketing campaign, is not about high school drama but the actual grown-up business of Broadway itself, otherwise known as freaks and geeks with bigger budgets and training, but the same insecurities.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-01/67658950-27141358.jpg "Without the freaks and geeks of "Glee,\"who made long-skeptical network executives suddenly receptive to prime-time characters singing and dancing, there would be no \"Smash.\"But NBC's eminently watchable and shrewdly crafted new drama series, which premieres Feb. 6 after a heavy marketing campaign, is not about high school drama but the actual grown-up business of Broadway itself, otherwise known as freaks and geeks with bigger budgets and training, but the same insecurities.")
Without the freaks and geeks of "Glee,"who made long-skeptical network executives suddenly receptive to prime-time characters singing and dancing, there would be no "Smash."But NBC's eminently watchable and shrewdly crafted new drama series, which...Tags: Glee (tv program), Smash (tv program), Anjelica Huston, Jack Davenport, Theater
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The scoop on 'Smash,' new TV show about the Broadway process
!["Smash," the mid-season NBC replacement TV show all about the process of creating a new Broadway musical, had what the producers said was the first screening of its pilot episode before "real people" on Monday night in Chicago. <a class="runtimeTopic" href="#">Brian D'Arcy James</a>, one of the show's stars, was at the screening, held at a South Loop movie theater.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-01/67276769-10095044.jpg ""Smash,\" the mid-season NBC replacement TV show all about the process of creating a new Broadway musical, had what the producers said was the first screening of its pilot episode before \"real people\" on Monday night in Chicago. <a class=\"runtimeTopic\" href=\"#\">Brian D'Arcy James</a>, one of the show's stars, was at the screening, held at a South Loop movie theater.")
"Smash," the mid-season NBC replacement TV show all about the process of creating a new Broadway musical, had what the producers said was the first screening of its pilot episode before "real people" on Monday night in Chicago. Brian D'Arcy James, one of...Tags: Steven Spielberg, Glee (tv program), Times Square, Smash (tv program), Anjelica Huston
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Signs all point to enjoyment on a road trip through rural Florida
I missed the sign when I first passed it on the stretch of County Road 42 that bridges Lake and Marion counties.
That's uncharacteristic, because the sign said "BBQ" and that combination of letters is pretty much always enough to stop me, even in the...Tags: Justin Bieber, Seminole County, Ocala National Forest, Forestry and Timber, Trips and Vacations
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Indiana State Museum to display Jim Irsay collection
From the presidential, to pop culture, to counter culture, the Irsay Collection is massive in its size, value and scope. Like any array of collectables, the collection says as much about the history, as it does about the collector, who come February, will...Tags: Grateful Dead (music group), Hobbies, Tom Hanks, Missing Persons, Auction Service
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Life Out Here: Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a ... sick
Being rich and single creates terrible human beings.
That conclusion can be reached from watching “The Millionaire Matchmaker,” the surest sign of the imminent apocalypse since Dane Cook became famous.
Yes, “Jersey Shore”...Tags: Television Industry, Television, Entertainment, Julia Roberts, Skin
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Patt Morrison Asks: Spirit guide Kenny Kingston
Everybody knows that newlyweds William and Kate are in town this weekend. But Kenny Kingston says he knows how that royal marriage will work out. The self-styled Psychic to the Stars who has hosted lucrative infomercials, TV shows and hotlines says he...Tags: Physiology, Imperial and Royal Matters, Elections, Television, Lucille Ball
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Gloria Steinem: The founder
You know what they say about March -- comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb.
Forget that. March is Women's History Month. It should come in like a lioness, and go out like one too. Like, say, Gloria Steinem.
As a seminal figure in the American...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Clarence Thomas, Terrorism, Phyllis Schlafly, New York
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RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 5, episode 5 recap – the Snatch Game edition
Channel Guide MagazineLadies and gentlemen, boys and girls, ladies and ladyboys – it's that time again. Time for the ever-popular, most awesome Snatch Game episode for RuPaul's Drag Race Season 5. Squee! Let's recap the highlights – season 4 gave us Sharon...
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