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Movie review, 'The Cockettes'
Special to the TribuneThe rise of the counterculture in the 1960s has never been portrayed well on film. With the exceptions of documentaries such as "Berkeley in the '60s" and "Festival!" (the latter a chronicle of the 1963-1965 Newport Folk Festivals), cinematic depictions...Tags: Saturday Night Live (tv program), Cinema Industry, Death, Entertainment, Movies
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INSIDE: Marie's Rip Tide Lounge
Marie's Rip Tide Lounge 1745 W. Armitage Ave. 773-278-7317 Sights: With the exception of some '80s songs in the jukebox, a ceramic Spuds Mackenzie on the back bar and a Golden Tee video game, it seems little has changed at Marie's Rip Tide Lounge since...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Gaming, Bars and Clubs, Entertainment, Frank Sinatra
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Theater review, 'The Wizard of Oz' at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Tribune arts reporterFour years after Marc Robin first created this version of the Emerald City at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, "The Wizard of Oz" is back for its final summer-long sojourn at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. And since there are only so many faux-...Tags: L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Celebrities, Mickey Rooney
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Music review, Eartha Kitt at Ravinia
Tribune Arts CriticGreat performers can prove difficult to categorize, if only because their work is too personal to fit into neatly defined categories and genres. Certainly that's the case with Eartha Kitt, at 73 still a sensationally charismatic figure who cannot be...Tags: Death, Comedy (genre), Joe Williams, Ravinia Festival, Shirley Temple
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Charles to start 8-week Brando series tribute
Sun Movie CriticAn eight-week, eight-film tribute to the late Marlon Brando opens tomorrow at The Charles with Viva Zapata!, a 1952 film in which he portrays the man who rose from peasant origins to become leader of a Mexican revolution and, eventually, president of...Tags: Julie Newmar, Adam West, Anthony Quinn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Elia Kazan
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Movie review: 'Holes'
Chicago Tribune Movie Writer2 stars (out of 4) How does a movie called "Holes" manage to have no center? That's one mystery this adaptation of Louis Sachar's popular older-kids novel doesn't address. The movie is all over the place, jumping around in time, place and tone. I haven'...Tags: Dule Hill, Henry Winkler, Chicago Tribune, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes
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'Holes'
Times Staff WriterHis Nobel Prize for literature notwithstanding, Yiddish author Isaac Bashevis Singer was passionate about the satisfactions of writing for young people. Children, he once explained, will not read something just because the New York Times tell them to....Tags: Henry Winkler, Children, Nobel Prize Awards, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes
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Sunday, sassy side up
In Los Angeles, Sunday brunch is almost a religion. It's one of the few times during the week when we slow down, make time to see family and friends, when the cellphone seems to magically stop ringing. Nobody expects to get up from a brunch in under a...
Tags: George Burns, Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Dancing
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Movie review: 'Anything But Love'
Special to the Tribune2-1/2 stars (out of 4) Unabashed retro-saps rejoice: The Michael Feinstein fans, lonely hearts and musical theater majors of the world have just been thrown a bone. The earnest, low-budget indie "Anything But Love" isn't quite the movie you'd like it to...Tags: Cameron Bancroft, Cinema Industry, Judy Garland, Michael Feinstein, Samuel Goldwyn
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Marti Brom attacks music on her own terms
A striking brunet with a taste for vintage clothes, rockabilly singer Marti Brom boasts an Imelda Marcos-sized shoe collection. Her bathroom is decorated with photo pinups of such personal idols as the actress Yvonne DeCarlo, and on the musical side,...Tags: Rockabilly (genre), Linda Ronstadt, Austin (Chicago, Illinois), Wanda Jackson, Vocal Music (genre)
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'Elf'
Times Staff Writer"Elf" is an example of the good things that can happen when hipsters do it on the square. The fable of what transpires when a young man raised by elves goes back to investigate his human roots, it manages to be both genuinely sweet and just a teensy bit...Tags: Holidays, Gaming, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Ed Asner, Wayne Newton
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'Anything but Love'
Times Staff WriterRobert Cary's "Anything but Love" is that rarity, an hommage to the sweeping Technicolor Hollywood love story of the '40s and '50s that works. It succeeds because it dares to take its people and their dreams seriously, with a gently humorous affection,...Tags: Cameron Bancroft, Death, Samuel Goldwyn, Andrew McCarthy, Victor Argo
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