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NBC's Dick Ebersol gets Lifetime Achievement Emmy
WatchdogCongratulations to NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol, who was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 30th annual Sports Emmy Awards Monday night. Ebersol received the award in a ceremony featuring from Muhammad Ali and the commissioners/CEOs of...Tags: NASCAR, Crimes, CBS Corp., Kate Walsh, Sports
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Gibson still carving out his corner of cyberspace
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterVANCOUVER, Canada -- Back then, it didn't seem like a great career move. "I don't think anyone told me that I was crazy," William Gibson recalled last week, sitting on the leafy patio of a Creole restaurant near his home. "But they didn't read science...Tags: South Carolina, Robert Heinlein, Gaming, Science, Dashiell Hammett
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Commutation for George Ryan?
(WGN-AM)- A lawyer for George Ryan says he'll ask President Barack Obama to commute the former governor's more than six-year sentence. Ryan's attorney, former Gov. Jim Thompson, says he'll present a petition to Obama while keeping in mind the president...Tags: Crimes, George Ryan, WGN, Lawyers, Government
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75 achievements Oscar forgot
Tribune movie criticWhen the Oscar nominations come out Tuesday, there are bound to be cries of injustice -- and in many cases, those charges will have merit. Can anyone really defend the exclusion from the Oscar nominee list in various years of movies such as "Some Like...Tags: Arthur Penn, Raymond Carver, Ernst Lubitsch, Sergio Leone, Peter Sellers
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Blagojevich donors get state jobs
Tribune staff reportersJust three weeks after appointing Chicago attorney Jack Carriglio to a powerful state board that oversees billions of dollars in assets, Gov. Rod Blagojevich received a $25,000 campaign contribution from Carriglio's law firm. Carriglio, who declined to...Tags: California, Travel, George Ryan, Business, Hospitals and Clinics
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Brought back to its glory
Special to the TribuneAs a teenager growing up in the Italianate-style brick house her well-to-do father built in 1872, Susan Lawrence led the good life in Springfield, a privileged one filled with parties and prestigious people. The only surviving child of Rheuna and Mary...Tags: Travel, Architecture, Hospitals and Clinics, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Frank Lloyd Wright
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This World, Then the Fireworks
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday July 11, 1997 Director Michael Oblowitz and writer-producer Larry Gross have a tough time getting a grip on "This World, Then the Fireworks," a lurid, low-down adaptation of a story by legendary hard-boiled writer Jim Thompson. As a result,...Tags: Brian de Palma, Crimes, Ava Gardner, Francois Truffaut, Political Corruption
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U-Turn
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday October 3, 1997 "U-Turn" is a new turn for director Oliver Stone, but otherwise it's awfully familiar. The latest in an unending series of bleakly comic, nihilistic neo-noirs to reach the screen, "U-Turn's" story of a bad day in an Arizona...Tags: Jon Voight, Powers Boothe, Arizona, John Huston, Nick Nolte
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Illinois House, Senate OK $587 million Soldier Field rehab
Tribune staff reportersAfter decades of griping about their fan-unfriendly throwback of an arena and a series of ill-fated plans to replace it, the Chicago Bears on Thursday finally won state backing to build a glitzy new stadium in the shell of Soldier Field. The $587 million...Tags: George Ryan, Petroleum Industry, Mike Quinn, Sports, U.S. Cellular Field
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'Twentynine Palms'
Times Staff WriterSome years ago, a commercial hustling some slop of a beer or another disposable part of our world lodged deep in my memory banks. The ad featured a couple of ordinary Joes who, while cruising a video store, had been stopped dead in their tracks by a...Tags: Crimes, Canal+, Palms, Martin Scorsese, Depression
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Obama has center in his sights
Tribune staff reporterBarack Obama, possessing an intense devotion to social justice, arrived in the Illinois Senate in 1997 and quickly became a darling of the Democratic Party's liberal wing--a label he wore like a badge of honor into the U.S. Senate primary in March. But...Tags: Gun Control, Kenya, Sociology, Rahm Emanuel, Politics
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Movie review: 'Paths of Glory'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC4 stars (out of 4) Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory," now being reprised in a brand-new print at the Music Box Theatre, is a great anti-war film that has lost none of its power since its release in 1957, when Kubrick was 29 and his legendary career...Tags: Music Theater, Theater, World War I (1914-1918), Orson Welles, Michael Wilson
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