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Richard Wagner: Separating the man from the music
"Just because he may have been a nasty little man and a nasty anti-Semite doesn't mean that his music is not as supreme as it is." That assessment comes from a Richard Wagner scholar in the documentary "Wagner & Me" (at the Siskel Film Center through...
Tags: Judaism, Entertainment, Stephen Fry, London Theatre, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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'Slap Shot' night: We're bringing our (bleeping) toys with us!
The NHL and the players association are going to federal mediation. Forget them. We’re going to the Federal League, and you’re invited. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman locked out the players in September. Since then, the house elf for Boston...
Tags: Entertainment, Music, Ice Hockey, Paul Newman, Michael Phillips
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What would a 'Slap Shot' night be without a Hanson Brother?
Here’s the thing about a “Slap Shot’’ night like the Tribune is sponsoring: You can’t stage that kind of evening without a Hanson Brother. Not in my world, anyway. And so, we’ll be joined by Steve Carlson. If you&...
Tags: Winnipeg Jets, Entertainment, Skype, National Hockey League, Ice Hockey
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We're puttin' on the foil, and you can join us
Look, I’m as bummed by the NHL lockout as you are. You hockey fans, anyway. I’m sure we’re all getting tired of watching online highlights of Traktor Chelyabinsk scoring on Bars Astana in the Kontinental Hockey League, and while the...
Tags: Christian Hanson, Kontinental Hockey League, National Hockey League, Ice Hockey, Gary Bettman
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'The Gang's All Here': Miranda's bananas part of film's appeal
For a brief moment in the timeline of planet Earth, there was Carmen Miranda. Fourteen films' worth, not counting appearances in early television, radio and nightclubs. And she was really something. Else. Something else. Drag queens the world over can...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Entertainment, Eugene Pallette, Bananas, Music
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This comic's life, sans sleep, in 'Sleepwalk With Me' ★★★
One night in a La Quinta motel room, comedian and storyteller Mike Birbiglia jumped through a second-story window while acting out one of his dreams, ending up in the hospital with a leg full of broken glass. Well, it's a living. Since then he has...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Broadway Theater, Theater, Entertainment, Victory Gardens Theatre
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'Family' connections: How Phylicia Rashad found Stovall and his play set in Hyde Park
When Phylicia Rashad was cast as a replacement Violet Weston in Anna D. Shapiro's Broadway production of Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County," the Broadway gossip boards were abuzz with the notion of casting an African-American actress, best known for...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Emmett Till, Sweden, Entertainment, Cynda Williams
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'Keep the Lights On': A stormy New York tale of love and addiction ★★★
There's a nerve-racking sequence set in the late 1990s in co-writer and director Ira Sachs' "Keep the Lights On" when Erik, the Danish expatriate filmmaker living in Manhattan played by Thure Lindhardt, is on the telephone, trying to extract information...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Cocaine, Entertainment, Addiction, Keep the Lights On (movie)
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History of the movies journey worth taking
In recent weeks the nervous future of the movies, as a business and as an occasional, accidental art form, has been subjected to unusually heavy scrutiny and speculation online and in print. This comes after an Oscar-sanctified movie year in which...Tags: The Artist (movie), Hugo (movie), Entertainment, Music, Douglas Fairbanks
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'The Master' offers a cinematic world unlike any other
Already open in New York and Los Angeles and going into general release Friday, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's strange, audacious drama "The Master" evokes a feverish state of mind more than a conventional movie, though its story can be...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Kenneth Branagh, Entertainment, Magnolia (movie), Paul Thomas Anderson
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I would fire my agent for getting me into this....
Change of SubjectMove to the top since this event is this afternoon ...but I don't have an agent. For some reason I've agreed to debate an expert debater on the subject of debating Saturday afternoon at the Music Box Theater in Chicago....... -
Community succeeds in facing down a killer in 'How to Survive a Plague' ★★★ 1/2
From a terrible epidemic comes a beautiful documentary. More than any other nonfiction work I've seen, with far-reaching intelligence and grace, David France's "How to Survive a Plague" relays what happened in the early years of AIDS. And what didn't...
Tags: Merck & Company Incorporated, Entertainment, Music, France, Jesse Helms
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