Entertainment Columns
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Spontaneous gagging can have many causesNov 06, 2010 11:00 pm - Q. Thank you for your balanced, sensible and unbiased information. It is a breath of fresh air. My husband has a problem with spontaneous gagging. It does not seem ...
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Go guide: Cooking show, 'White Christmas', 'Winter Pageant'Nov 05, 2010 11:00 pm - Chicago • Want fries with that? Nearly 150 exhibitors are ready to introduce your taste buds to the latest in main courses, sides dishes, desserts, wine, beer and s...
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'Megamind' blends farce and fantasyNov 04, 2010 1:00 am - “Megamind” is both farce and fantasy, a vivid 3-D animated comedy filled with zany characters, switched identities, reversing roles and surprise plot entanglements. Then...
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'Due Date' delivers crass comedy, kooky charactersNov 04, 2010 1:00 am - Call it “Planes, Trains and Automobiles -- Without the Planes and Trains.” “Due Date” stars Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis as two clashing, feuding strangers w...
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Perry blunts powerful 'For Colored Girls'Nov 04, 2010 1:00 am - When a Tyler Perry movie actually gets screened for critics, you know it must be something special. “For Colored Girls” is special, especially for a Tyler Perry movie. I...
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More on 'Entertaining' vs. 'Good'Nov 03, 2010 11:00 pm - Right on, Dann! Dann: I think your column “Entertaining doesn't always equal good” (Oct. 29) hits it right on. Many a bad movie can be very entertaining, and that's...
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New on DVD: Cher collectionNov 03, 2010 11:00 pm - New on DVD: Cher collection
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'Fair Game' much more than anti-Bush tiradeNov 03, 2010 11:00 pm - Consider this a “family first” film. If Doug Liman's fact-based “Fair Game” had been just another political tirade against the Bush administration for outting CIA agent ...
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Muti to return to CSO in JanuaryOct 31, 2010 11:00 pm - The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has a lot to be thankful for this month after learning music director Riccardo Muti is feeling better while recuperating at his Ravenna, I...
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Outsider, functional art on display at Navy PierOct 29, 2010 11:00 pm - Chicago Couched in art The 17th Annual Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art and the Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art are all under one roof this yea...