Television
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Oscars's 80th birthday doesn't pull in viewers
Feb 25, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The Oscars are a ratings dud. Nielsen Media Research says preliminary ratings for the 80th annual Academy Awards telecast are 14 percent lower than the least...
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Everything old is new again in 'quarterlife'Feb 25, 2008 10:00 pm - Blogging: That's not writing; it's gripe-writing. Apologies to Truman Capote for that line, but then again considering it's borrowed from an attack on Jack Kerouac, I ta...
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Suburbs to dominate the stage on 'Wheel of Fortune' in MarchFeb 25, 2008 10:00 pm - Dozens of suburbanites will spin the wheel March 7-9 when "Wheel of Fortune" comes to Navy Pier to tape three weeks' worth of episodes. Names aren't being released, but ...
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Clearly Coen country at this year's Oscars
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No ceremony for old starsFeb 23, 2008 10:00 pm - Along with producer Gil Cates, host Jon Stewart and his staff of writers from "The Daily Show" have had to throw together the Oscars in a hurry after the strike ended ea...
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Impossible dreamsFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - "What happens to a dream deferred?" poet Langston Hughes once mused. Yet "A Raisin in the Sun," the play that drew its title and inspiration from Hughes' poem, asks inst...
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New on DVDFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - These DVDs were released this week: "American Gangster" Denzel Washington plays a Harlem drug lord in the 1970s who rules the streets, while Russell Crowe heads up a na...
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HBO's Louis documentary misfires with betrayal themeFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - It's a story endemic to the fight game: Boxer rises to the top and makes millions, only to squander it all, then suffer a long and very public decline. HBO tells it aga...
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'Buffalo Bill' glories in fact and fictionFeb 20, 2008 10:00 pm - "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend," a character famously says in John Ford's Western "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." PBS' redoubtable "American Experie...
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TV shows discovering it's hard to find unusual contestantsFeb 20, 2008 10:00 pm - It's one thing to find someone who wants to be a millionaire. It's another to find someone who will strap herself into a polygraph machine and tell 23 million home viewe...