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'Falling': Here's why there aren't more plays about air disasters
At the top of Gary Kirkham's "Falling: A Wake," the startling new show at the Rivendell Theatre, there is an almighty crash and parts of an airplane start falling out of the sky, including one of the passengers.
Although blessedly rare, such events have...Tags: Symbols and Symbolism, Arts and Culture
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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: Les Miserables (movie), Life of Pi (movie), Skyfall (movie), Academy Awards, The Hurt Locker (movie)
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Leslie Zemeckis sashays into the history of burlesque
During the shabby final days of the last of the burlesque houses that once dotted State Street near Congress Parkway, three of us — in possession of a few bucks and self-confidence fueled by fake IDs — entered the Follies Theater and saw a...
Tags: The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Book, Chicago International Film Festival
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Ex-Whalers GM Emile Francis Remembers Fierce Rangers-Bruins Rivalry
The Hartford CourantBefore there was a Game 1 between the Rangers and Bruins in 1973 at Boston Garden, there was a Stanley Cup Final Game 1 between the teams there in 1972. "The cops come into our dressing room before that game," Emile "The Cat" Francis said Wednesday from...Tags: John Tortorella, Detroit Red Wings, The Sting (movie), Madison Square Garden, Henrik Lundqvist
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A woman's fantasies and fears take wing in 'Amelia'
It's heartening to see area college and university music programs taking up the slack with respect to significant recent American operas Chicago's professional opera companies have ignored. A little more than a week ago, student singers and orchestra...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Human Interest, Music Industry, Arts and Culture, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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'Renoir': A family of artists, lovers and rivals ★★★
The line sounds absurdly melodramatic, but it's delivered in a steely tone. "You'll end up in the old man's bed. Like my mother. Like all of them." Played by a taciturn Thomas Doret, the younger son of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir knows the score. He has...
Tags: Arthritis, Renoir (movie), Michel Bouquet
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When our heroes are revealed to be flawed ...
In the movie "Flight," for which Denzel Washington scored an Oscar nomination, a brilliant pilot successfully lands a catastrophically damaged plane, saving scores of lives, even though this captain was high as he sat behind the throttle. To some degree,...
Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Heroism, Lance Armstrong, OWN (tv network), Alcohol Addiction
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Set an evening aside for Goodman's 'Matinee'
John Goodman is everywhere right now. Such has been the case for this popular actor for a long time, but at the multiplexes presently he's a valuable ensemble member in two worthwhile pictures, "Argo" (in which he plays a real-life Hollywood makeup artist...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Key West, Argo (movie), John Goodman, University of Chicago
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Chicago International Film Festival gets a digital face-lift
The biggest changes afoot in this year's Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF), the 48th edition, are on the screen, yet they're not part of the programming. As the worldwide cinema industries push actual film — meaning celluloid — into...
Tags: Room 237 (movie), Denis Lavant, Chicago International Film Festival, Reality (movie), Rome (Italy)
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Overlooked screenplays this Oscar season
In 1945 Raymond Chandler wrote a screed against Hollywood, and Hollywood screenwriting, for the Atlantic Monthly. "An industry with such vast resources and such magic techniques should not become dull so soon," said the man who later characterized his...
Tags: The Deep Blue Sea (movie), Academy Awards, Argo (movie), World War II (1939-1945), Wreck-It Ralph (movie)
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'Day's' end: McClane tale tapped out in final 'Die Hard' ★ 1/2
"A Good Day to Die Hard" isn't just the weakest of the "Die Hard" pictures; it's a lousy action movie on its own terms, even without comparing it to the adored 1988 franchise launch starring Bruce Willis as John McClane, the New York cop who's a carnage...
Tags: John Wayne, Skyfall (movie), Central Intelligence Agency, Alan Rickman, John Moore
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Jim Harbaugh tops list for The Times' Sports Oscars
Oscars, smoshkers. With his scenery-chewing performance on the sidelines last weekend, Jim Harbaugh has elevated himself to the top of this year’s list of the world’s greatest dramatic actors. “Maybe he’s just being himself?&...
Tags: Charles Durning, Academy Awards, National Football League, San Francisco 49ers, Golden Globe Awards
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