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Chicago catches a 'Big Fish'
NEW YORK — A man in a Manhattan rehearsal room asks a young boy a question: "No soccer game this week?" A look crosses the kid's face. You can read love, loneliness, contempt. "It's not soccer season anymore, Dad." Chastened, the man talks of...
Tags: Mel Brooks, Billy Elliot (musical), Music, Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Henrik Ibsen
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South Bend native on the red carpet at Oscars
South Bend TribuneAlicia Powell put on her sparkly dress and her strappy sandals for a big evening recently. It was an evening most of us can only dream about. Alicia, who is an entertainment producer for Reuters TV, was on the red carpet doing interviews at the 85th...Tags: Academy Awards, ABC (tv network), Chuck Pagano, Kerry Washington, George Clooney
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Anticipating the Oscars: These might contend
My Academy Awards predictions — and honestly, why not start now, a month before the nominations are announced? — carry an odor akin to Paul Rudd's cologne in "Anchorman": 60 percent of the time, they're right every time. This week the awards...
Tags: Skyfall (movie), Life of Pi (movie), Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Academy Awards, Jennifer Lawrence
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'The Phantom of the Opera' returning to Chicago
"The Phantom of the Opera," the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that has entertained multitudes of Chicagoans over the last two decades, is returning to Chicago. Although an endeavor of the original producer, Cameron Mackintosh, this is not the original Hal...
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'Les Miserables': Looks like the front row ★ 1/2
I wouldn't be surprised if "Les Miserables" became the most popular movie musical since "Mamma Mia!" On stage, both diversions were, and are, easy to enjoy in their diametrically opposed ways. "Mamma Mia!" revels in Greece, glitter and ABBA; "Les Miz"...
Tags: Mamma Mia! (movie), Eddie Redmayne, The King's Speech (movie), Music Theater, Literature
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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: Film Independent Spirit Awards, Anne Hathaway, Steven Spielberg, Politics, Academy Awards
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Broadway in Chicago books 'Sister Act,' 'Grinch' and 'Les Miserables'
Broadway in Chicago said Wednesday morning that it will present touring productions of "Sister Act," "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and a reprise of "Les Miserables" this year. - "Sister Act" (Nov. 13 to Dec. 2 at the Auditorium Theatre, 50...Tags: Broadway Theater, Whoopi Goldberg, Arts and Culture, Theater, Palace Theater
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Song, dance and meat pies: Hugh Jackman can do it all on Broadway
At one telling moment in his fascinating, ticket-driving new solo show, "Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway," the impossibly handsome Australian action-movie star gives us a snapshot of his Down Under adolescence. "I'd come home from playing rugby," he says,...Tags: Pies and Tarts, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Celebrities
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Oh, How I Miss Joan Rivers' Bad Manners On The Red Carpet
The Hartford CourantI attended the Academy Awards this year, as I usually do. For the record I was wearing a gray T-shirt and a pair of plaid flannel pajama bottoms from the Ocean State Job Lot collection. I looked fabulous, at least that's what the person doing the...Tags: Anne Hathaway, Academy Awards, Joan Rivers, Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep
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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: Religion and Belief, Anne Hathaway, Steven Spielberg, Roger Deakins, Charlize Theron
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Backstage at the Oscars: Affleck, Clooney talk 'Argo'
Highlights from backstage at the Oscars: The “Argo” trio of Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov took the stage, and Affleck was asked when he felt was tipping point for his movie’s victory. “Michelle Obama,”...
Tags: Amour (movie), Anne Hathaway, Inglourious Basterds (movie), Christoph Waltz, Jack Nicholson
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Lyric's passion must extend to musical theater
In 2008, New York's Lincoln Center revived a Broadway warhorse: "South Pacific." At the beginning of the overture in the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the lip of Michael Yeargan's setting, which had the outline of a tropical island, began to move backward,...
Tags: Civic Opera House, Poetry, Music Theater, Music, Arts and Culture
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