Entertainment Columns
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Widescreen: This Valentine's Day, cozy up to ... 'The Equalizer'? ('No, not exactly)Feb 10, 2021 10:00 pm - Love is in the air! Let's snuggle and watch a romantic favorite. Hey look, "You've Got Mail" is on HBO Max! Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan! Love in the age of AOL! I saw this mo...
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Feder: Radio legend Kevin Matthews turns music mogulFeb 10, 2021 12:00 am - Kevin Matthews, one of Chicago radio's all-time greats, is one of the principals behind a new multimedia platform for music and performance artists, Robert Feder writes....
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Jim O'Donnell: Curious yellow pixies greatly weakened CBS, Super Bowl 55Feb 10, 2021 12:00 am - VIEWERS TUNED INTO Super Bowl 55 with the expectation that The Weeknd was the star of the halftime show. Few realized that in the end, "weakened" would be a fair summary...
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Feder: Medill at 100 marks 'monumental milestone'Feb 09, 2021 12:00 am - Happy 100th birthday to my alma mater, the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston. Founded with backing from the Chicago Tribune and publish...
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Feder: 'Consultant' Bill Shine casts Fox shadow over 'NewsNation'Feb 08, 2021 12:00 am - After two decades as a senior executive at Fox News and a protégé of chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, Bill Shine was fired in 2017 for his role in enabling the sexual haras...
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Musical trip down memory lane: What are your three most-played albums?Feb 05, 2021 5:00 am - With more than a foot of snow piled upon us, and a virus raging yet again with new variants - and a guessing game for the ages in terms of when and where to get a vaccin...
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Jim O'Donnell: Will the NFL push Patrick Mahomes as its Michael Jordan?Feb 05, 2021 12:00 am - A BILLION DOLLAR ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS founded by bookmakers and vagabond jocks will once again rule the American pop cultural skies Sunday. Pandemic be damned, Super B...
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Mismatched Owen Wilson, Salma Hayek struggle in confusing sci-fi mess 'Bliss'Feb 04, 2021 5:00 am - “Bliss” - ★ ½ Mike Cahill's ambitious science-fiction/psychological drama “Bliss” suffers from two extremely big drawbacks. First, its convoluted, minutia-obsessed...
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Feder: 'Roe & Roeper' reunite to launch podcast on pop culture, current eventsFeb 04, 2021 12:00 am - Chicago media mainstays Roe Conn and Richard Roeper, who've been radio partners — on and off — since they first teamed up at WLS 890-AM in 2010, are back together again,...
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Jim O'Donnell: Bruce Arians is another one the McCaskey Bears let get awayFeb 03, 2021 12:00 am - ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS about being a Bears fan is that you seldom have to budget for blue-and-orange Super Bowl party favors. History says once every 20 years or so and...