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Michael Wilmington's Top 10 of 2006
Tribune movie critic2006 was a year of sober film remembrances -- for example, in the movies by Paul Greengrass ("United 93") and Oliver Stone ("World Trade Center") that looked back with sadness and anger at the 9/11 attack/disaster. It was a year also of technical...Tags: Judi Dench, September 11, 2001 Attacks, China, Entertainment, Stephen Frears
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Fast-Paised review: A Prairie Home Companion'
Garrison Keillor's real-life radio show is dramatized into a musical-comedy starring Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan, John C. Reilly and more. Big question: Will this flick appeal to anyone without an NPR tote bag? Catch it: An unabashed love letter to...Tags: Entertainment, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Kline, NPR, Movies
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A decade later, 'Best Little Town' still fits Bayfield to a T
Tribune staff reporterThere are still no traffic lights. In fact, there are still no traffic lights in the entire county. There's still no McDonald's, no Wal-Mart. The lake still sparkles, the beaches still squeak, the restaurants still serve those menacing whitefish livers."...Tags: Entertainment, Wisconsin, Heart Attack, Fashion Shows, Restaurants
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'The Voice of the Prairie' at the Colony Theatre in Burbank
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Midwestern plains are inundated. The lives of thousands of farmers and small-town citizens will never be the same. But wait: It's 1923, not 2008. And the disruptive waves are coming from the newfangled radio, not the swollen Mississippi River. John...Tags: Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Entertainment, Woody Allen, Nebraska, Celebrities
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Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Ving Rhames, Entertainment, Colin Farrell, Ian McKellen
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'Farmer John'
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer++++++++++++++++++++ || || ++++++++++++++++++++ If a man declared that he enjoyed working the land and getting dirty, you'd probably assume he were a farmer. If the same man took a bite from a handful of soil, proclaimed it tasty and then confessed to a...Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Agriculture, Family, Illinois
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He's San Francisco's pugilistic poet, for better or verse
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAugust Kleinzahler gets into fights at poetry readings. Once, in Ireland, he traded insults with a host he found verbose. At a reading in a New York bar, he told a noisy drunk to shut his trap. Fists flew after the guy made a crack about Kleinzahler's...Tags: Tony Soprano (fictional character), Charles Bukowski, Minority Groups, Natalie Portman, Corporate Crime
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Teachers union graded
Today, Tokofsky and Snell discuss how UTLA can lend itself to improving L.A. schools. Previously, they weighed options for students enrolled in low-performing campuses. Later in the week, they'll discuss vouchers, breaking up the school district and more....Tags: 401K, Barack Obama, Chicago Tribune, John Marshall, NPR
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Tags: Meryl Streep, Entertainment, Robert Altman, New York, Lindsay Lohan
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PASSINGS
Bill Holm Poet, essayist was 'sage of Minnesota' Bill Holm, 65, the poet and essayist whom Garrison Keillor once called "the sage of Minnesota," died Feb. 26 of complications from pneumonia at Avera Heart Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D. He had collapsed...Tags: Entertainment, Kansas, Sage, Alabama, Poetry
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A decade later, 'Best Little Town' still fits Bayfield, Wisconsin
Chicago Tribune staff reporterThere are still no traffic lights. In fact, there are still no traffic lights in the entire county. There's still no McDonald's, no Wal-Mart. The lake still sparkles, the beaches still squeak, the restaurants still serve those menacing whitefish livers....Tags: Entertainment, Wisconsin, Heart Attack, Chicago Tribune, Fashion Shows
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The next big things?
The EnvelopeNow that the 78th Academy Awards are in the can, it's time to relax, take a deep breath — and start looking ahead to next year's crop of best picture candidates. Too early, you say? Not in Hollywood, where the Oscar clock never seems to unwind....Tags: Broadway Theater, Entertainment, Jude Law, Anthony Minghella, Emma Thompson
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