Entertainment Columns
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O'Donnell: Georgeff never called any rocketing doctors over ArlingtonJun 26, 2020 1:00 am - NO FIREWORKS AT ARLINGTON PARK next weekend reminds of a great holiday-themed local TV racing tale: Gerry Gallitano was a fair-to-middlin' jockey on the Chicago-Florida ...
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Feder: Bruce DuMont celebrates 'phenomenal' 40 years for 'Beyond the Beltway'Jun 25, 2020 1:00 am - On June 26, 1980, Bruce DuMont launched a new kind of political talk show on Chicago radio. "Inside Politics," as it was called, began as a 13-week experiment on Chicago...
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O'Donnell: Arlington 2020 more about melancholy than horse race meetJun 24, 2020 1:00 am - WILLIE NELSON ONCE SANG, "Love is like a dying ember." Maybe the Redheaded Stranger could summon up some fresh melancholia for the boned round of swill to be known as "A...
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Constable: Suburban roots take filmmaker from '8 Mile' to 'Devil's Night'Jun 23, 2020 5:30 am - Splitting his childhood between Mount Prospect and Detroit, teenager Sam Logan Khaleghi landed a gig as an extra for one brief scene in Eminem's 2002 movie, "8 Mile." "I...
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Feder: Over and out for Jason & Katie at US99Jun 23, 2020 1:00 am - Today was the last day on their air for Jason Pullman and Katie Bright after 10 months as morning co-hosts on Entercom country WUSN 99.5-FM, Robert Feder writes. Rachel ...
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Feder: WCGO's 'Gabby Road' morphs into 'The Hannah and Fred Show'Jun 23, 2020 1:00 am - After eight months as a Sunday morning destination on north suburban WCGO 1590-AM/95.9-FM, there's a new name and a cast change coming to "Gabby Road with Hannah, Fred a...
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Feder: Chicago Reader cutting back to biweekly publicationJun 22, 2020 1:00 am - After 49 years as city's premier alternative weekly, the Chicago Reader is downsizing to a biweekly publication schedule, Robert Feder writes. Reader publisher Tracy Ba...
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Constable: Dad, family bring joy with daily duo photosJun 20, 2020 1:00 am - Fathers are famous for telling corny “dad jokes.” Ben Burke of Cary takes that humor to a new level, building a growing fan base for a running daily photo gag that start...
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Widescreen: Sony steals the spotlight this weekend with 'Last of Us Part II'Jun 19, 2020 6:00 am - In the early 1990s, the home video game console wars had two main combatants: Nintendo, which built an empire with the help of an Italian plumber stomping on turtle shel...
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O'Donnell: Jeannie Morris grateful for aftermath of Brian Piccolo's short seasonJun 19, 2020 1:00 am - JEANNIE MORRIS WAS trying to link into a Zoom conference this week and her computer wasn't cooperating. It was frustrating - even though her background knowledge of the ...