Entertainment
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'Bad Guys' bests 'The Northman,' Nick Cage at the box office
Apr 24, 2022 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - On an unusually crowded weekend at movie theaters that featured a pricey Viking epic and Nicolas Cage playing himself, DreamWorks Animation's "The Bad Guys" b...
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Julia Roberts returns to TV in Starz's Watergate-era series 'Gaslit'
Apr 24, 2022 7:20 am - Julia Roberts says she was so gleeful at the sight of Sean Penn arriving on the set of their TV series "Gaslit," she nearly caused a wardrobe malfunction. "He came in fu...
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A Viking epic to conquer them all in 'The Northman'
Apr 23, 2022 7:30 am - Alexander Skarsgård has been dreaming about Vikings for as long as he can remember. Some of his earliest memories are from Oland, a Swedish island on the Baltic Sea, whe...
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Pam Grier covers 'everything' in a new podcast of her career
Apr 23, 2022 7:20 am - Pam Grier doesn't look back that often. If she did, she said this week from New Mexico, "I'd be drinking." But when Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz called to a...
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Ron Onesti: Classic rock radio … as important as the musicApr 22, 2022 6:00 am - When the "classic rock" world received stunning news that Chicago classic rock radio station WLUP was sold to a Christian broadcasting company, classic rock fans began w...
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Spotlight: 'Naperville' comes home courtesy of Buffalo Theatre EnsembleApr 22, 2022 6:00 am - Coming home Buffalo Theatre Ensemble concludes its season with a revival of "Naperville." Written by Naperville native Mat Smart, the play is about an adult son who retu...
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Widescreen: There's another chance to see Danny Elfman's buzzy, 'Batman'-meets-Boingo Coachella concert onlineApr 22, 2022 6:00 am - If you know the name Danny Elfman, it's either as the frontman for off-kilter '80s rock band Oingo Boingo or as the composer of memorable film scores, most notably for T...
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Powerball boasts $400 million bounty as it celebrates 30th birthdayApr 22, 2022 1:00 am - When Powerball was launched, it was intended to produce bigger top prizes. As the game caps its 30th anniversary week with a drawing tomorrow, it can boast a jackpot wor...
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Feder: Marquee to launch 'The Reporters' with Bob SirottApr 22, 2022 1:00 am - You won't see Ben Bentley and his cadre of cigar-chomping scribes from the original "Sports Writers" show, but get ready for a 2022 homage to the venerable Chicago sport...
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Pop goes the 'Moulin Rouge!': Broadway adaptation dazzles on so many levelsApr 21, 2022 11:00 pm - “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” - ★ ★ ★ ½ What's that sound that ripples throughout “Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” the 10-time Tony Award-winning show now nearing the end of i...