Entertainment Columns
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Best bets: On stage and on iceNov 16, 2011 5:00 am - Last dance The Merce Cunningham Dance Company is going, going and soon to be gone. The late namesake choreographer and founder dictated that his company should disb...
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HBO's WWII series now on DVDNov 10, 2011 10:00 pm - “Band of Brothers”/“The Pacific” Special Edition Gift Set Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and HBO presented these two outstanding series that brought events of World Wa...
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'Melancholia' an astonishing nightmareNov 09, 2011 10:00 pm - Reel Life mini-review: 'Melancholia' Lars von Trier's art house Armageddon drama "Melancholia" begins with a rogue planet plowing into the Earth at a zillion miles an h...
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Best bets: Curtains rise again at Des Plaines TheatreNov 09, 2011 5:00 am - Curtain up! After being closed for more than a year for extensive renovations, the 86-year-old Des Plaines Theatre stages a grand reopening tonight at 1476 Miner St...
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Fred and Ginger dance their way to DVDNov 04, 2011 6:00 am - In 2009, Turner Classic Movies and Warner Home Video teamed up to offer consumers a way to own various collections of movies at an affordable price. Each collection incl...
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Yelchin brings truth to 'Like Crazy'Nov 03, 2011 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: 'Like Crazy' Call Drake Doremus' finely sketched "Like Crazy" this generation's "Splendor in the Grass," the 1961 romance between two small-town ...
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Did mom overstep her bounds about Facebook images?Oct 31, 2011 1:00 am - Q. Several months ago, I found disturbing information on Facebook pages from two grandchildren (both adults). Other family members could view them, too, so no big se...
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Laughs live on in Laurel & Hardy DVD setOct 27, 2011 11:00 pm - “Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection” Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made up one of the greatest comedy teams of all time. Fans of the duo can now enjoy 58 of t...
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African-made zombie movie rises above Romero rip-offsOct 27, 2011 6:00 am - Reel Life review: 'The Dead' At least when the U.K.'s Ford brothers rip off George Romero's zombie formula - an Armageddon of cannibalistic, shuffling corpses that can ...
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Best bets: Ringling's 'Fully Charged' circus comes to townOct 26, 2011 6:00 am - Circus Maximus The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus promises a slew of exciting acts ranging from “The Human Fuse” to Asian elephants in a “symphony of dan...