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Red-hot Moore keeps Cannes fired up
Chicago Tribune movie criticThe Palm d'Or awarded Saturday night to Michael Moore's controversial "Fahrenheit 9/11" was a massive triumph for the filmmaker and his movie and a victory that far overshadowed the other prizes presented at the close of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival....Tags: Sheryl Crow, Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Cinema Industry
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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: Frankie Avalon, Comedy (genre), Ellen Barkin, Italy, Matthew Davis
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The famous dead yield only murky diagnoses
Sun StaffThe claims are everywhere: on posters and T-shirts, on the Internet and in books, even sometimes headlining the national news. Thomas Jefferson's eccentricities were actually a form of autism. Albert Einstein's genius flourished despite a learning...Tags: Plastic Surgeons, Colleges and Universities, Edgar Allan Poe, Science and Technology, Learning Disability
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Movie review: 'Thirteen'
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic3 1/2 stars (out of 4) Catherine Hardwicke's scorching "Thirteen" takes a seemingly small subject, the growing pains of adolescent girls in a Los Angeles-area suburb, and makes a volatile, feverish world out of it, digging deeper than you would have...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Jennifer Lopez, Drug Use, Juvenile Delinquency, Chicago Tribune
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Cinema for singletons
Special to SunSpotIs there a worse day to be single and searching than Feb. 14? You go anywhere on this wretched day -- the grocery store, the mall, restaurants -- and it's nothing but little, red hearts taped to the walls. It's that little undressed imp Cupid pointing his...Tags: Holidays, Crime, Law and Justice, Anne Archer, Comedy (genre), Death
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No surprises in complex 'Virginia Woolf'
Tribune arts reporterThough "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" has accommodated high-profile divas in the role of Martha for some 40 years Elizabeth Taylor in the seminal 1966 movie, Kathleen Turner on Broadway later this season Edward Albee's booze-soaked character...Tags: Elizabeth Taylor, Edward Albee
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The Real Blonde
FOR THE TIMESFriday February 27, 1998 Flash! The fashion industry is a skin-deep, sexist, reality-distorting business that perpetuates false expectations among men and objectifies women. This just in, too: Television soap operas are facile melodramas...Tags: Denis Leary, Opera (genre), Daryl Hannah, Death, Catherine Keener
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A Simple Wish
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday July 11, 1997 If you put a gleeful performance inside an indifferent movie, does the film get better or does it remain an indifferent piece of work with an asterisk next to it? This is no abstract question, it's what audiences will be...Tags: Martin Short, Central Park, Michael Ritchie, Death, PG Rated Movies
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Remember the Titans
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday September 29, 2000 You can tell by its mock-epic title, one that hints at heart-stirring endeavors. You can tell by the advertising material, with its soft-focus image of star Denzel Washington looking heroically off into the distance. You...Tags: Social Issues, Ethan Suplee, Super Bowl, Sports, PG Rated Movies
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Hey, I was there!
Think L.A. is the only place you can get that tingly deja vu feeling in a dark movie theater when a familiar place pops up on the screen? Think again. Chicago is one of the great American "location" cities. With its grand vistas, energetic urban air and...Tags: Sidney Poitier, Navy Pier, Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Loop, Macaulay Culkin
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The worst of the worst
"SUPERSTAR" Are you charmed and amused by a 35-year-old actress (Molly Shannon, right) pretending to be a hostile Catholic high school girl whose most distinctive characteristic is sticking her hands under her armpits and sniffing them? Didn't think so....Tags: Comedy (genre), Ashley Judd, Science and Technology, Dining and Drinking, Star Wars (movie)
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Movie review: 'Lucia, Lucia'
Special to the Chicago Tribune2 stars (out of 4) What a vivacious-looking, tartly-scored bore of a movie. It's almost OK that the nuts and bolts of the detective story "Lucia, Lucia" - the false leads, the assigned meeting places, the police stonewalling - are so dreadfully dull,...Tags: Mexico, Antonio Serrano, Jorge Garcia, Academy Awards, Mexico City
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