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Movie review: 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby'
Tribune movie critic2 stars (out of four) Your body lets you know if a comedy isn't working. Your shoulders tense up. You get restless. You start frowning, even if the film offers the occasional laugh and the hope of something better in the next reel. "Talladega Nights:...Tags: Arts and Culture, Michael Phillips, Michael Clarke Duncan, John C. Reilly, Entertainment
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TV Gal Has Little Time for 'Big Love'
SPECIAL TO ZAP2ITMobsters. Morticians. Carnival freaks. HBO doesn't churn out your typical doctor/lawyer/cop show. So it's really not that big of a surprise that HBO's newest series is all about polygamy. In "Big Love" (premiering Sunday at 10 p.m. on HBO), Bill...Tags: The Office (tv program), D.B. Sweeney, Dennis Haysbert, The Shield (tv program), Johnny Cash
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Review: 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby'
Zap2It.comWith his Summer 2005 output of "Kicking & Screaming" and "Bewitched," Will Ferrell did a lot to slow all that talk about his being the biggest comic movie star in the business. The exhaustingly named "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" is the...Tags: Entertainment, Amy Adams, Movies, Pixar Animation, Vehicles
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
MetromixWill Ferrell plus NASCAR sounds like a surefire recipe for hilarity, right? Not so in the disappointing Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Ferrell fans will at least be happy to know he's back on the right track after last year's terrifying...Tags: John C. Reilly, Auto Racing, Will Ferrell, NASCAR, Entertainment
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HBO Commits to Long-Term 'Treatment'
Zap2It.comHBO is entering "Treatment," and it's going to be there for a while. The pay-cable network has picked up the half-hour drama "In Treatment," which stars Gabriel Byrne as a therapist who's highly competent with his own patients but an utter mess when he...Tags: Lily Tomlin, Entertainment, Embeth Davidtz, Television, Melissa George
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I'll Be Home for Christmas
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday November 13, 1998 It's not even Thanksgiving yet, but here comes "I'll Be Home for Christmas," which Disney is releasing early in hopes of attracting audiences before the holiday deluge of films begins in earnest. It's a broad, shiny teen...Tags: The Walt Disney Co., Holidays, Family, Christmas, PG Rated Movies
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A Simple Plan
FOR THE TIMESFriday December 11, 1998 The title of Scott B. Smith's page-turning novel "A Simple Plan," and the smartly condensed script he adapted for director Sam Raimi, describes the solution that a winter hiker comes up with after he and two others happen...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Billy Bob Thornton, Entertainment, Ethan Coen, Movies
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Movie review, 'One Hour Photo'
Robin Williams, one of the great comic improvisers in the movies, has been exploring his darker sides in his 2002 films. He played an evil clown in "Death to Smoochy" and a suave serial killer in "Insomnia," and now digs into touchier areas -- loneliness,...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Eriq la Salle, Family, Entertainment, Movies
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Let the shows begin
By all appearances, the broadcast television networks finally got the message that audiences are hungry for original programming even during summer months. What's more, they've learned to do it with relatively inexpensive programming. Just look at the...Tags: Mykelti Williamson, Homicide: Life on the Street (tv program), Television, Adults, Dave Foley
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Movie review, 'I Spy'
Tribune movie reporterCan we really hold out much hope for a movie like "I Spy," another in the endless line of Hollywood's vintage-TV-show knockoffs? Based on one of the hippest '60s TV series - the sly, interracial espionage adventure with Robert Culp and Bill Cosby - "I...Tags: George W. Bush, Malcolm McDowell, Famke Janssen, Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Tribune
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We won't want for wide-screen choices
Yes, this summer you'll have the chance to see a lot of movies, even more than last year, as the studios try to build on last summer's record-breaking grosses while the multiplexes provide more and more screens for them to do so. Have at it. As always,...Tags: Al Pacino, Jennifer Aniston, Vaslav Nijinsky, Elton John, Pluto (fictional animal)
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Celebrity update
Compiled from wire reportsThere's something different about Enrique Iglesias these days. Something missing. . . . It's that trademark mole he sported on his cheek. The singer told Access Hollywood it took the doctor five minutes to remove it, and that the threat of cancer was...Tags: Tim Burton, Corbin Bernsen, Christina Aguilera, Entertainment, Television
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