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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: Mildred Pierce (tv program), Downton Abbey (tv program), The Rolling Stones (music group), Lincoln (movie, 2012), Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Cocaine, Methamphetamine (drug), Richard Nixon, Movies
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'Slow moving holocaust' keeps prisons full
The first thing you notice about the 1905 mug shot of Laura Scott is her Sunday-go-to-meeting hat, large with wayward bows. Then, you take in the information surrounding the photograph that reveals her physical measurements and describes her as a 40-year-...
Tags: Cocaine, Richard Nixon, Rogers Park, David Simon, Prisons
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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: New York Observer, Reviews, The New York Times, Music, Moneyball (movie)
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What Al Jazeera thinks of Baltimore
Baltimore-area viewers won't see it in their TV listings, but this week a program will premiere on the Al Jazeera English channel that could do more to shape the world's image of their city than any other media coverage or civic promotion done all year....
Tags: MSNBC (tv network), Journalism, Prisons, Entertainment, Verizon Communications
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Author of 'Dust to Dust' coming to Petoskey
McLean & Eakin, Booksellers of Petoskey welcomes actor, author, filmmaker and former United States Marine Corps officer Benjamin Busch for the final guest in its 2012 Yellow Chair Series from 7-8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13. Busch will discuss his book...Tags: U.S. Marine Corps, NPR, Iraq, Movies, Manhattan (New York City)
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Omar actor binged on coke while filming 'The Wire'
The Baltimore SunMichael K. Williams, who played Omar in "The Wire," is talking about his years of drug abuse and saying he's surprised it didn't lead to him ending up in a body bag. Williams tells the Newark Star-Ledger that while he was playing Omar in the Baltimore-...Tags: Substance Abuse, Cocaine, Boardwalk Empire (tv program), Michael K. Williams
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Baltimore: More Sailabration, less car racing
This summer, the citizens of Baltimore and the surrounding region have experienced two special multi-million-dollar events that consumed the Inner Harbor area for days. Each one took a lot of planning and cooperation. Each one was entertaining for...Tags: Immigration, Ellis Island, Inner Harbor, YouTube, Sailing
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Batts to get Council President Young's support as police commissioner
Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young met briefly Wednesday morning with Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's pick for police commissioner and pledged to support him. Young had backed an internal candidate for the post, and he declined...
Tags: Politics, Elections, Federal Hill, Bernard C. Young, Frederick H. Bealefeld, III
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Daum: Confessions of a TV couch potato
I recently attended a lecture by a distinguished man of letters. A poet, novelist, playwright and literary critic, this man also edits journals, directs literary festivals, collaborates on documentary projects, teaches full time at a university and is...
Tags: Six Feet Under (tv program), Satellite and Cable Service, Downton Abbey (tv program), Big Love (tv program), Newspaper and Magazine
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HBO's Baltimore productions 'VEEP,' 'Game Change' get some solid Emmy notice
The Baltimore SunUPDATES WITH MORE BALTIMORE NOMINEES: HBO's Baltimore productions "VEEP" and "Game Change" got some solid Emmy notice with the comedy earning a best actress nomination for Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the made-for-TV movie about the 2008 presidential election...Tags: CBS Corp., Boardwalk Empire (tv program), BBC, ABC (tv network), Downton Abbey (tv program)
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Bourdain looking forward to his return to Baltimore
When Anthony Bourdain brings his Guts & Glory tour to the Hippodrome on Saturday, it will be a return engagement for the notoriously opinionated "chef-at-large". Bourdain launched the Hippodrome's annual Foodie Experience series in May 2010, when he...Tags: Restaurants, New York Yankees, Long Island, ABC (tv network), David Simon
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