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    Feb 14, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Music Box festival celebrates 70mm projection

    It's how a lot of us got hooked on movies in the first place. When I was 8 or 9 I saw "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 70 mm in Milwaukee with my mother. My memory's fuzzy on the particulars but I recall asking so many questions about the obelisk on the drive back to Racine, she had to pull over and compose herself for a minute and, as the tears streamed down her cheeks, she said quietly: "Michael, I just ... have no idea." It didn't matter. I'd never seen anything like it, and the Star Child never looked bigger, or scarier, or better.
    It's how a lot of us got hooked on movies in the first place. When I was 8 or 9 I saw "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 70 mm in Milwaukee with my mother. My memory's fuzzy on the particulars but I recall asking so many questions about the obelisk on the drive...

    Tags: The Master (movie), Arts and Culture, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Tobe Hooper

    2. Nov 22, 2011 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. 'My Week With Marilyn': Dim light on 2 major stars -- 2 1/2 stars

    In 1956, not long after she married "Death of a Salesman" playwright Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe made a movie with director and star Laurence Olivier at England's Pinewood Studios. The film, "The Prince and the Showgirl," came from Terence Rattigan's drawing-room comedy "The Sleeping Prince," which Olivier had performed on the London stage opposite his wife, Vivien Leigh.
    In 1956, not long after she married "Death of a Salesman" playwright Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe made a movie with director and star Laurence Olivier at England's Pinewood Studios. The film, "The Prince and the Showgirl," came from Terence Rattigan's...

    Tags: Entertainment, Toby Jones, Theater, Celebrities, Entertainment Events

    3. Sep 14, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. 'The Master' offers a cinematic world unlike any other

    Already open in New York and Los Angeles and going into general release Friday, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's strange, audacious drama "The Master" evokes a feverish state of mind more than a conventional movie, though its story can be described easily enough.
    Already open in New York and Los Angeles and going into general release Friday, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's strange, audacious drama "The Master" evokes a feverish state of mind more than a conventional movie, though its story can be...

    Tags: Jason Robards, Amy Adams, Entertainment, The Master (movie), Arts and Culture

    4. Aug 24, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune - Hold from PM

  4. Lessons from the Olympics: Republicans and Democrats should allow us space to dream at conventions

    With the start of the Republican National Convention in Tampa Fla., on Monday, that once-every-four-years feast of political stagecraft is upon us. These conventions (the Democratic Party meets in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 3-6) have their nominative functions, of course, but they're really elaborate theatrical presentations with the aim of seduction and persuasion.
    With the start of the Republican National Convention in Tampa Fla., on Monday, that once-every-four-years feast of political stagecraft is upon us. These conventions (the Democratic Party meets in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 3-6) have their nominative...

    Tags: Tampa, Charlotte, Republican Party, Jeremiah Wright, Tim Berners-Lee

    5. Sep 17, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. A spare, articulate take on 'Hamlet'

    THEATER REVIEW: "Hamlet" at Writers' Theatre in Glencoe ★★★ ... An audience member walking into "Hamlet" today comes with so many preconceptions, it's hard for him or her to separate previous conceits from the darn play.
    Peter Brook once said that, in essence, everything in regard to "Hamlet" has been done before. The Moody Dane has been young and impetuous, or middle-aged and worn out. Every Oedipal twist in the tale has been tweaked and skewered. Every concept —...

    Tags: Human Interest, Peter Brook, Laurence Olivier, Mel Gibson

    6. Jul 27, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. Opening ceremony jolly good show

    LONDON — In one of thousands of pubs across London, where surely tears mixed with laughter Friday night, they might say I was gobsmacked by the Olympic opening ceremony.
    LONDON — In one of thousands of pubs across London, where surely tears mixed with laughter Friday night, they might say I was gobsmacked by the Olympic opening ceremony. In a more proper English teahouse, they might say I quite fancied that. All...

    Tags: Football, Chicago Blackhawks, England, Mariel Zagunis, Chicago White Sox

    7. Apr 30, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. The gang's all here in 'The Avengers' ✭✭✭

    The culmination of everything ever written, produced or imagined in the known universe, or something like that,"The Avengers"bunches together Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Thor, the leather-clad assassin Black Widow, the lethal archer Hawkeye and the superheroes’ one-eyed wrangler, Nick Fury, for 143 minutes of stylish mayhem in the service of defeating Thor’s malevolent brother, the god Loki, who hails from the interstellar world known as Asgard (access through wormhole only), and who yearns to conquer Earth with an all-powerful blue energy cube called the Tesseract.
    The culmination of everything ever written, produced or imagined in the known universe, or something like that,"The Avengers"bunches together Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Thor, the leather-clad assassin Black Widow, the lethal archer Hawkeye and...

    Tags: The Avengers (movie, 2012), Jeremy Renner, Entertainment, Edward Norton, Mark Ruffalo

    8. Jan 24, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. Oscar nominations a blast from the past

    John Osborne wrote the key post-World War II British drama "Look Back in Anger," later filmed in 1959. By contrast there’s very little anger in all the look-backs among this year’s Academy Award nominations. Oscar's unofficial slogan in early 2012 is more like "Look Back with Bittersweet Nostalgia at the Industry’s Salad Days."
    John Osborne wrote the key post-World War II British drama "Look Back in Anger," later filmed in 1959. By contrast there’s very little anger in all the look-backs among this year’s Academy Award nominations. Oscar's unofficial slogan in...

    Tags: Awards and Prizes, Hugo (movie), The Descendants (movie), Entertainment, Midnight in Paris (movie)

    9. Jan 3, 2008 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  9. Ready for their close-ups?

    This can't be a joke because there's a writers strike on and jokes are out for the duration. So in all unscripted seriousness, I ask, could Hollywood really be smarter than Washington? Is it possible that movie people are savvier than political people?...

    Tags: Entertainment, Academy Awards, Parties and Movements, Government, Petroleum Industry

    10. Jun 11, 2011 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  10. Patt Morrison Asks: Comics genius Stan Lee

    My comic book tastes ran to Classics Illustrated. Seriously, what's scarier than the graphic images of "Crime and Punishment" and Raskolnikov -- the existential "superman," not the caped one -- whacking the pawnbroker with an ax? Can I, then, hold my own with Spider-Man's spiritual father, Stan Lee, a genius of comics for 70 years? The progenitor of scores of graphic heroes and villains, "starred" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this year, he's huge at the summer box office, with "Thor," then "X-Men: First Class" and, due out in July, "Captain America: The First Avenger." Twentysomethings may be kings of entertainment, but Lee is the emperor. He's chairman emeritus of Marvel, the venerable comics company that's grown multimedia and merchandising wings; he works with Disney through his POW (Purveyors of Wonder) Entertainment company. He's crafting a Chinese feature-film superhero, and he searches for real people with superhero powers on the History Channel. Biff! Bam! Boom! "I don't want anyone to think I'm retired," Lee says.
    My comic book tastes ran to Classics Illustrated. Seriously, what's scarier than the graphic images of "Crime and Punishment" and Raskolnikov -- the existential "superman," not the caped one -- whacking the pawnbroker with an ax? Can I, then, hold my...

    Tags: Hugh Hefner, Tarzan (movie), Entertainment, Book, Thor (movie)

    11. Nov 29, 2007 |Column| Envelope

  11. Screenings shine bright with stars

    Jack is back!
    Jack is back! Warner Bros. had to turn away at least 50 Screen Actors Guild members at an overflowing screening of "The Bucket List" at the TV Academy in North Hollywood last night. About 600 strong filled every seat and then some for the rare – and...

    Tags: Halle Berry, Michael Caine, Entertainment, Julie Christie, Will Smith

    12. Apr 2, 2012 | RedEye

  12. ‘My Week With Marilyn’: Jen Lindley forever

    Lakeview
    I always preferred Jen to Joey. “Hmm,” I observed as I watched “Dawson's Creek” like the angsty 90′s teen I was. “The blonde girl's way more interesting a character than the brunette who's always scowling and whining.&#...
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