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The Chicago Way: Obama does Connery
The Swampby James Oliphant For the mini-furor touched off by Barack Obama's remarks in Philadelphia Friday about bringing a gun to a knife fight, it's sort of amazing how few have passed upon what was so obviously his source material.......Tags: Barack Obama, Al Capone, John McCain, Sean Connery, Sports
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First Drive: 2009 Audi A4
KickingTiresAudi invited us to Elkhart Lake, Wis., this past weekend to check out the American Le Mans series at Road America on Saturday. (Ingolstadt, Germany???s, two R10 racecars ended up clinching a one-two finish, incidentally.) Oh, there was also a......Tags: Buick, Infiniti, Audi, Services and Shopping, BMW
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Trivia a favorite pastime
South Bend TribuneWhich now famous actor served as the corpse being dressed for his funeral at the beginning of the movie, “The Big Chill”? (Answers to follow.) Do you know the answer? I do. That’s because I am a trivia addict. So are some of my...Tags: Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, Megan Fox, Robert Shaw, Television Industry
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Cupcake champ Wilder goes beyond sweet
Florida Hospital's Gourmet Soiree: Dining to a Healthy 100! gets cooking at 5:30 p.m. May 19 at Orlando's Rosen Shingle Creek resort. Chef Robert Irvine, host of Food Network's "Restaurant: Impossible," will be on hand, challenging guests who will don...
Tags: Cooking Channel (tv network), Florida Hospital, Television Industry, Earth Day, Robert Irvine
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Oscars and American history: True, or true enough?
A modest proposal: Movies exploring some aspect of American history, such as “Argo,” “Lincoln” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” should leave off the “based on a true story” or “inspired by true events”...
Tags: Fiction, Central Intelligence Agency, Kathryn Bigelow, The Master (movie), John Goodman
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Sports, how do we love thee? Let us count the ways
Cupid's juiced. Lance Armstrong's head is corked. Is there anything left to love about modern sports, the apparent bastion of liars, cheats and psychopaths? Well, here are 100 Valentines dedicated to all that's still good about sports. "There are really...
Tags: Bob Costas, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Eagles, NASCAR, Sports
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'Argo' director/star Ben Affleck grows smarter and more ambitious with each picture
In the last shot of Ben Affleck's "Argo" — relax, there are no spoilers here — the camera pans slowly along the shelves of toys in a young boy's bedroom. The year is 1980; the film spends most of its time on the true story of how a CIA...
Tags: Circumstance (movie), Central Intelligence Agency, Politics, Alan J Pakula, Iran
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Plano capitalizes on 'Man of Steel' with Superman-themed festival
You don't have to look very hard in Plano to find traces of the Superman reboot that filmed in the western suburb last summer. Plano, which doubled as the fictional town of Smallville in the upcoming “Man of Steel,” has yet to take down the...
Tags: Chicago City Hall, Amtrak, Festive Events, Arts and Culture, Superman (fictional character)
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Movie gangsters so bad they're good
One hundred and one years ago, D.W. Griffith gave us "The Musketeers of Pig Alley," often credited as the first gangster film, and once sound came in, nothing hooked movie audiences during the early 1930s more reliably than Edward G. Robinson or James...
Tags: War Horse (movie), The Untouchables (movie), Gangster Squad (movie), Howard Hawks, Entertainment
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'Snow White' at it again, with fewer laughs, more gore ✭✭✭
Better and more darkly imaginative than its headache of a coming-attractions trailer suggests, "Snow White and the Huntsman"follows another Snow White re-do,"Mirror Mirror," into theaters by two months and two days. That's not much time for audiences to...
Tags: Mirror, Mirror (movie), The Hunger Games (movie), Snow White (fictional character), Joe Roth, Snow White and the Huntsman (movie)
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Konerko just goes about his business
Signs of respect are spotted easily. For instance, Red Sox rookie Felix Doubront was working carefully to Adam Dunn in the first inning Thursday night at frosty U.S. Cellular Field. He had him in a 1-2 count but then repeatedly missed trying to pound him...
Tags: Boston Red Sox, Jason Varitek, Adam Dunn, Oakland Athletics, Career and Workplace
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Whitney Houston: A voice that served the song
Whitney Houston was for nearly two decades the center of pop music, an inspiration to several generations of pop divas, from Mariah Carey to Beyonce, and countless “American Idol” contestants.
They heard in Houston an invitation to musical...Tags: Beyonce, Football, Entertainment Events, Grammy Awards, Physiology
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