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Readers share ratings, quibbles
The awards season has run its course. It's always a relief to see it in the rearview mirror. Even the winners feel that way. Many of the award-winners qualifying for very goodness and even greatness fed an ongoing debate about historical fiction on...
Tags: Entertainment, Robert Aldrich, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Charles Bronson, Les Miserables (musical)
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Movie makeup: The good, the bad and the 'J. Edgar'
Attention, vampires. Later this week, while you're watching the final installment in the "Twilight" series, if the quality of the new film is consistent with the earlier films, well, you will probably find yourself wondering if it's just you or do all...
Tags: The Elephant Man (movie), Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sean Penn, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Celebrities
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Second national title secured, Kentucky Derby next for Louisville's Pitino
The notion is preposterous: Luke Hancock astride a horse in the Kentucky Derby. He weighs two bills, for goodness sakes, and stands 6-foot-6. He's as much a jockey as I am an NFL left tackle. But given Rick Pitino's recent roll, does anyone doubt that...
Tags: Notre Dame Fighting Irish, College Sports, National Football League, Georgetown Hoyas, Louisville Cardinals
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Oscars speeches: Honestly sincere, or expertly faked?
Los Angeles looks lush. But as often noted, it is actually an arid wasteland where nothing but artifice and self-interest sprouts naturally. That's the cynical, archetypal reading. For instance, two thirds of the way into Nathanael West's cynical,...
Tags: Entertainment, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Ben Affleck, Anne Hathaway, Christoph Waltz
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The Oscars telecast's rocky road
Last night's Oscars were like an emotional roller-coaster at a terrible amusement park--beginning wth Seth MacFarlane's as-bad-as-feared monologue, the show rarely rose above painful and hit few peaks. Allow us to relive some of the night's best and worst...
Tags: Music Theater, Channing Tatum, Music, Christoph Waltz, Roger Deakins
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Star-gazing at the Oscars: Movie fans enjoy parade
HOLLYWOOD — The red carpet is in some ways a microcosm of the Oscar food chain. The first nominees arrive two and a half hours before the show is to begin. These are the people who worked on live-action shorts and documentary features and foreign-...
Tags: Music Theater, Entertainment, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Helen Hunt, Music
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Thinking of blue skies, the Oscars
South Bend TribuneIdle thoughts while waiting for the dryer to finish off my favorite pair of jeans: - Should I feel a little bit guilty about wearing those jeans into a school for a reading program when all of the kids are in their uniforms? - Does anybody else...Tags: Brian Kelly, Downton Abbey (tv program), Chip Kelly, Entertainment Events, Hugh Jackman
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RedEye's 2013 Oscar predictions
For context about predictions of major entertainment events, Duff Goldman from “Ace of Cakes” correctly predicted the result of this year’s Super Bowl. NFL experts did not. Likewise, making Oscar predictions can be a bit ridiculous, as...
Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Christoph Waltz, National Football League, Celebrities
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Along the Abraham Lincoln spectrum
Opening this week, Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" is the latest screen incarnation of the 16th U.S. president's life, in this case the final few months of that substantial life, with the Civil War near the end and the passage of the 13th Amendment...
Tags: Entertainment, John Cromwell, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (movie), Gary Oldman, Politics
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Tony Kushner's Chicago visit a virtual event for most
This Friday at 4 p.m. at the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner will pay a visit to one of his favorite Chicago haunts. In the spirit of the movie “Lincoln,” which Kushner wrote and which revels in the...
Tags: Entertainment, Science and Technology, D.W. Griffith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (movie), Celebrities
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Wiseguys Walken and Pacino on how it might end
At times it felt like an exit interview — the ultimate exit interview. The details are still so surreal that when I tell people who was there, the words sound as though someone else had dreamed them: Al Pacino walked into the room. Then...
Tags: Chicago International Film Festival, Woody Harrelson, Al Pacino, Queens (New York City), Edward G. Robinson
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Logging family time with Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln has been given many titles over the years: Rail Splitter, Great Emancipator, even, to the detriment of the undead, Vampire Hunter. Some of these have more historical credibility than others. But one that he's earned without question,...
Tags: Entertainment, U.S. Congress, Libraries, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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