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Windy City winners
Benicio Del Toro, the 6-foot-4-inch actor of the moment who has a Golden Globe win and an Academy Award nomination for his role as an undercover Mexican cop in the highly acclaimed movie "Traffic," strode toward center stage of the Shakespeare Theatre...Tags: DePaul University, Benicio Del Toro, Arts and Culture, Cameron Crowe, Defense
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Movie review, 'White Oleander'
"White Oleander," a polyurethane blossom from modern Los Angeles, is a movie that really nags your conscience. It's a faithful, well-produced, well-cast version of an often moving and perceptive novel by Janet Fitch about a young girl's painful odyssey...Tags: Cole Hauser, Michelle Pfeiffer, Arts and Culture, Bette Midler, Movies
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5 films from 'Vanilla Sky's' writer-director Cameron Crowe
1. FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (Amy Heckerling; 1982) 3 stars Based on Crowe's 20-something journalistic adventure as a fake teenager, this is one piece of movie California teen sociology that gets it right. The cast is sensational: Jennifer Jason...Tags: Tom Cruise, Movies, Cameron Crowe, Bridget Fonda, Renee Zellweger
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Movie review: 'Saved!'
Tribune staff reporter2 stars (out of 4) "Saved!," the newest and most ambitious entry in the recent deluge of teen comedies, has a message-management problem. Its wit and subversive charm get lost in a maze of mixed signals: The film at times is about tolerance, sort of...Tags: Mary-Louise Parker, Depeche Mode (music group), Movies, Entertainment, Michael Stipe
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'White Oleander'
Times Staff WriterA double sense of loss runs through the film version of Janet Fitch's bestselling novel, "White Oleander," a feeling of absence that is partly appropriate and partly not. What's intended is the loss felt by young Astrid Magnussen, suddenly thrust into...Tags: Billy Connolly, Cole Hauser, Michelle Pfeiffer, Alison Lohman, Janet Fitch
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Movie review: 'Spun'
Special to the TribuneIt may not qualify as a comeback on the order of John Travolta's in "Pulp Fiction," but Mickey Rourke's turn as "The Cook" in the frenetic drug movie "Spun" is so surreal and sympathetic that it may make viewers forgive Rourke's long list of cinematic...Tags: Greenwich Village, Drugs and Medicines, Jason Schwartzman, Movies, John Leguizamo
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'Saved!'
Times Staff WriterIn "Saved!," a soft-bellied, sweet-tempered satire about Christian fundamentalism, Jesus isn't just the son of God, he's a best friend, a constant companion and a totally awesome dude. For the born-again kids at the American Eagle Christian High School,...Tags: Women's Health, Heather Matarazzo, Kevin Smith, Hospitals and Clinics, Mary-Louise Parker
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'Spun'
Times Staff WriterBack in the 1980s, musician-hipsters like David Byrne and philosopher-hipsters like Jean Baudrillard just couldn't get enough of the coast-to-coast freak show called the United States. In movies like Byrne's "True Stories" and in books like Baudrillard'...Tags: Cinema Industry, Jason Schwartzman, Movies, John Leguizamo, Mena Suvari
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