Entertainment Columns
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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...
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New on DVD: 'Back to the Future'Oct 27, 2010 11:00 pm - “Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy” In 1985, Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis took the public on a wild ride into the past and future with the invent...
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Entertaining doesn't always equal goodOct 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Entertaining = good? Dann: I have read many of your reviews over the years and, after viewing the movie, generally agree with most of them. By now I have a "feel" as to...
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New on DVD: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers collectionOct 20, 2010 11:00 pm - New on DVD: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers collection