Lifestyle Columns
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New DVD releasesSep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - "Sex and the City: The Movie" This box-office movie hit picks up where the TV series left off. After many years, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) is finally getting married...
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Third time's a charm for Lane and Gere's romantic chemistrySep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, people who like this sort of movie will find this the sort of movie they like. "Nights in Rodanthe" offers us two hurting souls healed by ...
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Prime-time cartoons just ain't what they used to beSep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - The golden age of TV animation is over, and for proof just turn on the television Sunday night. First Fox returns its "Animation Domination" lineup of four cartoon comed...
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Lee's wannabe World War II epic not quite a 'Miracle'Sep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - The most epic thing about the World War II drama "Miracle at St. Anna" is Spike Lee's attempt to create an epic. His bloated, brutal, bloody account of an all-black U.S....
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'Manon' opens Lyric season with real star qualitySep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - It seems like yesterday the music of Lyric Opera of Chicago's final production last season of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" faded into silence. But time moves fast in th...
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Negotiation is the best way to solve a payment dispute with contractorSep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - When a remodeling job turns sour, it's sometimes best to work out a new arrangement with the contractor rather than making a beeline for court. Q. We are in a disput...
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'Caroline' deftly juggles issues of race and changeSep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - For Chicago-area critics who haven't already added Court Theatre to their short list of future nominees for the regional Tony Award, I expect Charles Newell's impeccable...
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Jonesing for some Beijing-style TV?Sep 24, 2008 11:00 pm - While biding time for wrestling to move over, MyNetworkTV airs the "2008 Tour of Gymnastic Superstars" at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, on WPWR Channel 50. All the Beijing me...
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Watch clips from the funniest movies everSep 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Join James Bond novelist/film historian Raymond Benson and me as we conclude our look at the greatest comedy movies made, from the 1950s to now. Clips from "Ghostbusters...
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'Ugly Betty' still looking good, but 'Grey's Anatomy' ailingSep 24, 2008 11:00 pm - The conundrum of TV drama - or any drama, for that matter, on stage or screen - is it attempts to be realistic, but in real life people strive to be content and happy, y...