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Critic's Notebook: 'Glee' is at a crossroads
Pop & HissWith the Fox hit reaching a high-water mark in scope and popularity, the producers face tough choices in moving the show beyond the novelty stage in its second season. If a musical is ever made about Ryan Murphy and his...... -
Mel Gibson Honored by Irish
Zap2It.comIrish eyes are smiling on Mel Gibson. The actor-filmmaker will receive recognition from the Irish Film and TV Academy for his contribution to world cinema and Irish cinema in particular on Sunday, Feb. 17, reports Variety. "His drive, vision and...Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Mel Gibson, Academy Awards, Cinema Industry
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TV Review: 'Viva Laughlin'
Zap2It.comNarratively lax, creatively unfocused and in every way inferior to its British source material, "Viva Laughlin" isn't a very good show. But do you know what has been amusing? Watching CBS scramble to promote an unpromotable show. I've seen ads...Tags: Television, Music Theater, Entertainment, Crime, Law and Justice, Tourism and Leisure
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F. Scott Fitzgerald on film and television
F. Scott Fitzgerald's magical short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was a hard sell during the early days of the Roaring '20s, when magazines were hungering for one of the author's more down-to-earth flapper stories. "Benjamin Button" was a...Tags: John Frankenheimer, MGM Inc., Movies, Jason Robards, Australia (movie)
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'The Singing Detective'
Times Staff WriterTwo years before his death in 1994, writer Dennis Potter completed a screenplay inspired by his celebrated 1984 six-part BBC series, "The Singing Detective," which he said he had "totally rethought." Would that director Keith Gordon and his associates...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Crime, Law and Justice, Hospitals and Clinics, Robert Downey Jr.
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Stars come out in Utah
http://entertainment.metromix.chicagotribune.comTags: Movies, Jeff Bridges, Crime, Law and Justice, Claire Danes, Jessica Lange
Jan 21, 2003 |Story| MetromixSundance Diary
Movie reporter Mark Caro reports on the screenings and the scene at the Sundance Film Festival. There's an energy in the air at major film festivals that's intangible yet palpable. So although Sundance will be showing films for three more days, it...Tags: Paul Giamatti, Festive Events, Peter Dinklage, Entertainment, Movies
Jan 19, 2003 |Story| MetromixMark Caro at Sundance
By Mark Caro Tribune movie reporter PARK CITY, Utah {ndash} Here's how quirky this year's Sundance Film Festival has been: Perhaps the happiest film screened in a major slot so far has been Oliver Stone's documentary about his three-day chat with...Tags: Music Theater, Movies, McDonald's, Britney Spears, Crime, Law and Justice
Apr 12, 2002 |Story| MetromixRecent openings: 'Nocturne,' 'The Good Woman of Setzuan'
Special to the Tribune"Nocturne" takes its title from an Edvard Grieg piano piece, but while Chicago native Adam Rapp's award-winning one-man drama is a lyrical work, it's about a discordant experience. Opening Saturday as a Midwest premiere by the Naked Eye Theatre Company,...Tags: Music Theater, Bertolt Brecht, Entertainment, Edvard Grieg, Cat (animal)
Nov 20, 2003 |Story| Associated PressThe Singing Detective
The Associated PressMuch was lost in transition from BBC miniseries to American movie in "The Singing Detective" -- wit, soul and texture have been replaced by shallow obviousness and glib sentiment. The film is sour, unpleasant and, given its stylistic flourishes, curiously...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Crime, Law and Justice, Hospitals and Clinics, Robert Downey Jr.
Feb 20, 2005 |Story| Los Angeles TimesThe road to the Oscars is paved with TV parts
Long before they turned in Oscar-worthy performances on the big screen, most of this season's Academy Award nominees had their start on the little screen, including Don Cheadle, "Picket Fences"; Jamie Foxx, "In Living Color"; Annette Bening, "Miami Vice";...Tags: Television, Entertainment, Movies, Annette Bening, Alan Alda
May 21, 1999 |Story| Baltimore Sun'Homicide' fittingly goes out the way it came in
Sun Television CriticThe final moments of "Homicide: Life on the Street" find Detectives Meldrick Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Rene Sheppard (Michael Michele) in an alley in the dark searching for clues to the murder of a man whose body lays nearby. Lewis probes a clump of...Tags: Super Bowl, Jon Seda, Values, Richard Belzer, Crime, Law and Justice
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