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Movie review, 'John Q'
"John Q." is about a man who learns to take responsibility for his family by taking hostage an emergency room full of people. In some contexts such behavior might be considered, at the very least, anti-social, but this guy has been forced to deal with...Tags: Literature, Health Insurance, Arts and Culture, Cinema Industry, Social Issues
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Comedy review, Ellen DeGeneres at the Chicago Theatre
Tribune Staff WriterTribune Staff WriterLong before she was an activist for gay rights, or a groundbreaking television actor, Ellen DeGeneres was a pretty good stand-up comic. And Saturday night at the Chicago Theatre before a sold-out audience, DeGeneres proved that despite seven years...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Comedy (genre), HBO (tv network), Documentary (genre), Gays and Lesbians
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Aiming to hit the high notes
If MTV was able to pull off the classic opera "Carmen" as a hip-hop movie earlier this year, why can't Jamie Foxx do his own "hip-hopera?" "Rollin' down the street/smokin' indo/sippin' on gin 'n juice/the juice/with my mind on my money/and my money on my...Tags: Opera (genre), VH1 (tv network), Dennis Miller, Chicago Tribune, Television
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The comeback player
Times Staff WriterIn Hollywood, the actor is the last to know, Alec Baldwin says, recalling a period in his career when "rigor mortis" crept in. It was the late 1990s. "Ghosts of Mississippi," a 1996 drama in which Baldwin played a crusading district attorney, had stumbled...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Celebrity Parents, Cinema Industry, Dining and Drinking, Danny DeVito
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'Wicked' receives 10 Tony nominations
Tribune theater criticThe supernatural wenches of midtown Manhattan swept up 10 Tony Award nominations Monday as "Wicked," the musical prequel to "The Wizard of Oz," became this year's most-nominated Broadway show. Other big nominees in a generally wobbly field include the...Tags: Sanaa Lathan, Margo Martindale, Tony Awards, Jennifer Westfeldt, Entertainment
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Lights! Camera! Food!
Special To The SunFor the last three months, some of the best food in this city was not served in a restaurant but from the sides of catering trucks. Grilled swordfish and mango salsa, fillet of beef with bearnaise sauce, pasta primavera, Caesar salads, Key lime pie,...Tags: Parsley, Caesar Salads, Strawberries, Pasta Salads, Entertainment
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Summer Movie Preview
Courant film CriticIt has been suggested that summer has already begun at the cineplexes, with the huge opening for ``The Scorpion King." Whether The Rock has legs as well as arms will be seen. But well before Memorial Day, the traditional start of summer, the long season...Tags: Philip K Dick, Joe Pantoliano, Teen-agers, Adrian Lyne, Kieran Culkin
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I Know What You Did Last Summer
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 17, 1997 "I Know What You Did Last Summer" isn't the virtuoso work that "Scream," also written by Kevin Williamson, was. Nor is it as nonstop frightening. But it is fun, energetic and fairly scary. Its four young stars have...Tags: Freddie Prinze, Jr., Colleges and Universities, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Entertainment
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Wag the Dog
TIMES FILM CRITICWednesday December 24, 1997 "Why does a dog wag its tail?" Glad you asked. "Because a dog is smarter than its tail. If the tail were smarter, the tail would wag the dog." With a title taken from that tart bit of pre-credits philosophy, "Wag...Tags: Barry Levinson, The Washington Post, Willie Nelson, Denis Leary, James Stewart
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Films To Warm Your Winter
The Hartford CourantIt was obvious back in November when Mother Nature dumped the first load of snow on the state that this winter would be a long one. Depending on your attitude toward driving in blizzards, shoveling snow and scraping the car, this can seem like the...Tags: Howard Hawks, Humphrey Bogart, Elia Kazan, Entertainment, Vivien Leigh
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Movie review: 'Birth'
TRIBUNE STAFF REPORTER2 stars (out of 4) In 2001, Jonathan Glazer, previously the director of commercials and music videos, made his stunning feature film debut with "Sexy Beast," a slick, moody British gangster film that, with Ben Kingsley as the bad guy, was more a study of...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Kevin Thompson, Entertainment, Peter Stormare, Nicole Kidman
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'Wicked,' 'Assassins' Lead Tony Nods
AP Drama WriterIt was a "Wicked" day, with the lavish "Wizard of Oz" musical nominated for 10 Tony Awards, Broadway's highest honor. "Assassins," the chilling Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical about presidential killers, followed with seven nominations Monday....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Sanaa Lathan, Lorraine Hansberry, Tony Awards, Entertainment
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