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'Wrong Time Wrong Place' opens IDFA: Amsterdam documentary festival boasts 97 world premieres
VarietyAMSTERDAM The 25th Intl. Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam opens Wednesday with Dutch director John Appel's world preeming "Wrong Time Wrong Place" unspooling at 25 theaters across Holland. In the crowded calendar, the 12-day IDFA remains the world'...Tags: Ken Burns, Arts and Culture, Documentary (genre), Movies, Entertainment
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'Head Games' review: Ouch. And I mean that in a good way.
*** (out of four) At some point your mom or dad probably said, “It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt.” Ralphie from “A Christmas Story” knows what I’m talking about. Many people participating in activities...
Tags: Junior Seau, Sports, Movies, Entertainment, Roger Goodell
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'Head Games' assesses the price of football ★★ 1/2
Based on the 2006 book of the same title, Steve James' wide-ranging documentary wonders how much we're willing to gamble in our kids' pursuit of sports, to say nothing of the adults, particularly regarding the concussion magnet known as football. "Head...
Tags: Sports, Movies, Entertainment, Football, The Interrupters (movie)
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Head Games
VarietyParents could be making their kids wear helmets to the library by the conclusion of helmer Steve James' science-and-sports docu "Head Games," which scores solid hits on everyone from the NFL down to peewee hockey as it links contact sports, concussions...Tags: Concussion, Head Injuries, Allergies, Sports, Movies
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New police commissioner expected to be former Oakland chief
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has selected former Oakland, Calif., Police Chief Anthony Batts as Baltimore's next police commissioner, bringing in a leader who has been hailed as an innovator but who struggled to push his agenda at his last job. Batts,...
Tags: Conservation, Robert W. Curran, Port Discovery Children's Museum, Frederick H. Bealefeld, III, Los Angeles Police Department
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Obituary: Ruth Cook
JUNCTION¿CITY — Ruth Allene Gordon Cook, 81, of Danville, died Saturday, July 7, 2012. Born Sept. 13, 1930, in Boyle County, she was the daughter of Samuel Lumby and Ethel Faye Nevius Gordon. Ruth began working at American Greetings the opening...
Tags: Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, Robert Gordon, David Cook
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It came from Ray Bradbury
Though known primarily as an author, Ray Bradbury had a fixation with Hollywood. It was inevitable that his skills as a science fiction writer would eventually land him work in the movies. His first gig was with Universal Pictures in the early 1950s,...
Tags: Cinema Industry, Olivia Wilde, The Interrupters (movie), Fiction, Francois Truffaut
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There are no children in Annawadi
Special to Tribune newspapersI've long been a fan of Katherine Boo's writing. In one of my favorite New Yorker stories, about efforts to get the poor to marry, her opening line is a treasure: “One July morning last year in Oklahoma City, in a public-housing project named Sooner...Tags: India, Mumbai (India), Movies, Entertainment, Authors
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Black History Month 2012 TV schedule
Channel Guide MagazineHere are some notable new and returning television programs profiling memorable people, themes and events in African-American history, in celebration of February's Black History Month. Programs and times are subject to change; check back throughout the...
Nov 30, 2012
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Nov 21, 2012
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Nov 13, 2012
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Sep 27, 2012
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Sep 27, 2012
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Sep 21, 2012
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Aug 27, 2012
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Jul 10, 2012
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Jul 12, 2012
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May 11, 2012
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Jan 31, 2012
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Jan 27, 2012
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