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'You Were Never Really Here': Nine-10ths of a single?
When readers meet Joe, a former Marine and ex-FBI agent who's now a freelance detective and hired gun, he's fighting off an attacker in an alley. After a tough altercation, Joe throws the assailant's body behind a dumpster, lifts his money clip and...
Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Apple iTunes, Steve Jobs, Media Industry, FBI
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A new thriller from 'Law & Order' guy Dick Wolf
Liz Smith"Joe Biden's horoscope on January 21 was especially strong (better than the president's). Watch for the vice president playing a much greater role during Obama's second term and coming to the fore to revamp the budget and economic policies across the...Tags: Nelson DeMille, ABC (tv network), Theater, Entertainment Events, Jerry Orbach
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Can Cher save Logo?
Liz Smith"FEW THINGS are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example," wrote Mark Twain. It is interesting that the one and only Cher is reportedly closing a deal with the Logo Network to produce -- and perhaps to appear -- in a series set in the...Tags: Greta Garbo, Star Wars (movie), Liz Smith, Cher, Movies
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Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher
Blogging with Bill WhiteI posted an item about this when they first announced this bit of odd casting, and it drew an amazing worldwide response from Jack Reacher fans. The consensus was that a pipsqueak like Tom Cruise couldn't possibly play the 6-foot-5,...... -
'Jack Reacher' comes to the big screen with violence intact
Liz Smith"Timing is everything!" as a wise philosopher once said. And this seems to coordinate with events of late. The murder of 20 children in Newtown, Conn., backed the National Rifle Association into a corner they will struggle to get out of. It didn't...Tags: Jack Reacher (movie), Liz Smith, Movies, National Rifle Association of America, Entertainment
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'Hobbit' rules again as Cruise, Apatow, Streisand post soft debuts
It was a ho-ho-ho-hum weekend at the box office, as five new releases failed to draw moviegoers to the multiplex in droves. "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" was the No. 1 film for the second consecutive weekend, collecting an additional $36.7...
Tags: The Lion King (movie), Family, Theater, Trips and Vacations, Judd Apatow
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Film review: 'Jack Reacher' thriller is a bit of a reach
For fans of Lee Child's series of Jack Reacher thrillers, the decision to cast Tom Cruise as Reacher must seem like ... well ... a reach. Child's protagonist is light-haired, nearly 6 and a half feet tall, burly enough to be instantly intimidating, and...
Tags: Action (genre), Shootings, Movies, Richard Jenkins, Entertainment
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'Jack Reacher' comes up short, movie critics say
When it comes to kicking butt, Tom Cruise is an old hand. He's done it as an ace pilot in "Top Gun," a soldier-turned-samurai in "The Last Samurai," a globe-trotting super-spy in the "Mission: Impossible" movies, a futuristic cop in "Minority Report"...
Tags: Action (genre), Michael Phillips, Movies, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post
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Review: 'Jack Reacher' is too much of a stretch for Tom Cruise
In "Jack Reacher," the new thriller starring Tom Cruise, the crime that draws the film's reclusive ex-Army investigator out of the shadows — a sniper gunning down people on a city street — couldn't have been a worse one to land in theaters...
Tags: Richard Jenkins, Movies, Robert Duvall, Entertainment, An Education (movie)
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Timing is everything for 'Jack Reacher' ★★ 1/2
Considered outside the context of the bloody December so far, "Jack Reacher" does its work sleekly and well. Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie filmed the adaptation of the Lee Child book "One Shot" (one of many Reacher adventures) in Pittsburgh,...
Tags: Gaming, Richard Jenkins, Movies, Magic Mike (movie), Entertainment
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Is Tom Cruise reaching? Senators blast 'Zero Dark Thirty.'
After the coffee. Before figuring out if I can get out of town next week. The Skinny: I'm almost over this annoying cold that has hampered me for over a week. So don't cough around me. Thursday's stories include a look at whether Tom Cruise is big...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Personal Weapon Control, John McCain, Gaming, Time Warner Cable Inc.
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Is Tom Cruise big enough to carry 'Jack Reacher'?
The opening minutes of the action-thriller "Jack Reacher" unfold with a display of gun violence that will be strikingly familiar to anyone who has been horrified by headline news in recent weeks. A sniper is shown assembling his long-range assault rifle....
Tags: Lincoln Center, Valkyrie (movie), Rock of Ages (movie), Thriller (genre), Rob Moore
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