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Paul Newman
The TV ZoneOver the next few days, weeks, we'll all have and cherish our various memories of Paul Newman, who died in Westport last night at age 83. Mine are indelible, beyond the big and small screen (yes, he had numerous......Tags: David Letterman, Westport, Ed Harris, Paul Newman
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Life Out Here: Love and an iron lung
CALEXICO — One of my favorite moments on our beautiful little campus here came in the tiny bookstore at the end of the past school year. There were four students in the store, three of whom I’d had in classes and knew well. Coincidentally,...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Education, Polio, Students, University of California, Berkeley
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Star-gazing at the Oscars: Movie fans enjoy parade
HOLLYWOOD — The red carpet is in some ways a microcosm of the Oscar food chain. The first nominees arrive two and a half hours before the show is to begin. These are the people who worked on live-action shorts and documentary features and foreign-...
Tags: Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Adele (music artist), Entertainment, Halle Berry, Anne Hathaway
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'Silver Linings Playbook' snags Spirit awards
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The persistent irony of the Film Independent Spirit Awards is that as much as they're positioned as the DIY antidote to the Academy Awards, the indie film with the most Oscars recognition almost invariably reaps the greatest...
Tags: Entertainment, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (movie), David O. Russell, Magic Mike (movie), Jack Black
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Why sex onstage rarely works
After I pointed out that the Goodman Theatre production of Christopher Shinn's "Teddy Ferrara" contains a goodly amount of onstage groping, poking and unbuttoning, a fevered member of the Twitterati made a rather stinging observation. "Chris Jones," the...
Tags: Pornography, John Hawkes, Girls (tv program), Polio, Arts and Culture
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Predictions: Golden Globes 2013--movies
No matter who wins or loses Sunday, the 2013 Golden Globes ceremony obviously will be awesome because Tiny Fey and Amy Poehler are hosting. Really: That should be enough to make even the most awards show-averse movie/TV fans tune in. Yes, there will...
Tags: Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Tommy Lee Jones, Ewan McGregor, Jack Black
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Oscar nominations: 'Lincoln' leads Academy Award contenders with 12
With a conspicuous diss of Kathryn Bigelow, the un-nominated director of “Zero Dark Thirty,” the Academy Awards nominations were announced Thursday morning. “Zero Dark Thirty” was one of nine films given the best picture...
Tags: Entertainment, David O. Russell, Tommy Lee Jones, Kathryn Bigelow, Steven Spielberg
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Spielberg's 'Lincoln' leads Golden Globe nominations with seven
The nominees for the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards were announced Thursday by Jessica Alba, Megan Fox and Ed Helms. Steven Spielberg's epic on the 16th president, "Lincoln," stood out in the film categories with seven Golden Globe nominations, followed...
Tags: Rust and Bone (movie), Homeland (tv program), Brave (movie), Helen Mirren, Judi Dench
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3 Oscar-worthy performances
I'm pretty sure we can account for three of the best-male-actor nominees when the Academy Awards lists come out on Jan. 10. I've just seen a trio of excellent performances: Denzel Washington in "Flight," Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln" and John Hawkes in...Tags: Orlando Museum of Art, Entertainment, Tommy Lee Jones, The Godfather (movie), Abraham Lincoln
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'The Sessions' tells tale of the virgin's diary ★★★ 1/2
In 1990 the writer Mark O'Brien contributed an article for the literary magazine The Sun called "On Seeing a Sex Surrogate." A survivor of childhood polio, the substantially disabled O'Brien spent much of his sleeping and waking hours confined to an...
Tags: Entertainment, Foursquare, Winter's Bone (movie), Martha Marcy May Marlene (movie), Methamphetamine (drug)
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For film fest, is 'good enough' good enough?
Is the Chicago International Film Festival good, good enough or not quite that? This is the question. This is the question to be asked of any festival, every perennial cultural mainstay in every city. It's the way to keep us all honest, whatever dog we...
Tags: Entertainment, Joan Allen, Cloud Atlas (movie), Viola Davis, Cinema Industry
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Q&A: William H. Macy of 'The Sessions'
When “The Sessions” co-star William H. Macy came to Chicago in the early 1970s, he briefly worked as a waiter at former Lincoln Park bar Le Pub. He made more money, he says, as a carpenter. “[I would] build shelves and things like...
Tags: Entertainment, Lizzy Caplan, The Godfather (movie), Racism, Social Issues
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