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Kevin Spacey brings star power to 'House of Cards'
It was a steamy weeknight in July on Centre Street, and the extras in black tie were flagging. The $100 million series "House of Cards" was prepping a crowd scene outside the Peabody Institute, across from the Midtown BBQ & Brew. For more than two hours,...
Tags: Leonard Bernstein, U.S. Congress, London Theatre, David Fincher, Sales
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2012 in review
It won't take much more than a few minutes into the new year to see the impact of the old one, with Baltimore's City Hall opening at midnight to begin performing same-sex marriages under a law that takes effect on Jan. 1. But if the state's newly...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Baltimore Orioles, Criminal Laws, Prosecution, Donnie Edwards
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New Releases: 'Searching for Sugar Man' and more
Searching for Sugar Man Sony, $30.99; Blu-ray, $35.99 Available on VOD beginning Tuesday Detroit-based singer-songwriter Sixto Diaz Rodríguez couldn't get any airplay in the U.S. in the '70s with his soulful, political folk-rock, but his 1970 album,...Tags: Lee Daniels, The Imposter (movie), Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy (movie), New York City Police Department
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Robert F. Chew, who played Proposition Joe on 'The Wire,' dead at 52
The Baltimore SunClick here for the gallery "The Wire: Where Are they Now?" Robert F. Chew, a 52-year-old Baltimore actor and teacher who portrayed one of television’s most unforgettable characters as Proposition Joe on HBO’s “The Wire,” died...Tags: Michael K. Williams, Arts and Culture, Murder, Entertainment Events, Morgan State University
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Kevin Bacon finds his high stakes TV role in 'The Following'
RedEyeAfter more than 60 movies in a career spanning 35 years, Kevin Bacon wanted to up the dramatic ante with his first starring role in a primetime series on Fox's "The Following." "I'm the guy from 'Footloose.' The biggest issue was whether or not the...Tags: Television, Breaking Bad (tv program), FBI, Entertainment, The Following (tv program)
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Guy meets 'Girls'
Last Sunday, "Girls," HBO's much-talked-about comedy, debuted its second season. I should qualify that "much-talked-about" description, since "Girls" is really only a major discussion point among young liberal urbanites around the country. It's in matters...
Tags: Mad Men (tv program), Halle Berry, Lena Dunham, Entertainment, Entourage (tv program)
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When movies feel like TV
Last month after a screening, even as the lights came up in the theater, I could feel "Zero Dark Thirty" fading, its images and impact already softening in my head. No, no, wait: not fading — mingling. If our cultural experiences rub shoulders at...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Central Intelligence Agency, Not Fade Away (movie), Boss (tv program), Silver Linings Playbook (movie)
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Dominic West - From 'The Wire' to 'The Hour' and beyond
The Baltimore SunThere is certainly no shortage of outstanding leading men working in American TV drama these days. Jon Hamm, Damian Lewis and Michael C. Hall to name a few. But it would be hard to find any whose proven range is greater than that of Dominic West, star of...Tags: IKEA, London Theatre, Eliza Doolittle (music group), Treme (tv program), Music
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Let's not let NRA's LaPierre misdirect us with ignorance, lies about media
The Baltimore SunWhat an ignorant, dishonest and pathetic response to Sandy Hook today from the National Rifle Association. As a media critic, I will limit myself to the disingenuous attack on the media from Wayne LaPierre, chief executive of the organization. Of course,...Tags: Research, Colleges and Universities, Media Industry, Entertainment, National Rifle Association of America
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Alan Sepinwall touts the newfound legitimacy of TV
When Alan Sepinwall was hired as a TV critic just out of college in 1996, he had no way of knowing he was about to witness “a big bang of sorts,” as he puts it in his new book "The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and...
Tags: Star Wars (movie), Social Media, Arts and Culture, Reviews, Comedy (genre)
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'House I Live In' explores war on drugs and its toll on America ★★★
Taking on a hellacious societal problem, a documentary filmmaker benefits from finding a narrow path leading to the heart of that problem — a specific angle, an image, a detail, that opens up to the wider world and a host of provocations. Eugene...
Tags: Richard Nixon, AIDS, Entertainment, Drugs and Medicines, The House I Live In (movie)
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The boldness and brilliance of one-star reviews on Amazon.com
A couple of weeks ago at a Tribune-hosted cocktail party in the Loop, I found myself in a conversation with novelist Richard Ford. I was wearing the baseball hat I'm wearing in the photo that runs with this column, and from the corner of my eye I...
Tags: Great Expectations (movie), Arts and Culture, Reviews, New York Observer, Guy Fieri
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