Television
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Streaming apps threaten a TV bastion: Live sportsMay 09, 2015 7:00 am - Since the advent of the VCR and then YouTube, the media industry's No. 1 enemy has been piracy. But while Hollywood and the TV networks have fought one technology after ...
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DVD previews: 'Still Alice,' 'Mortdecai'May 09, 2015 7:00 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, May 12: "Still Alice" (PG-13, 101 minutes, Sony): Julianne Moore won an Academy Award for her role in this tear-jerker abou...
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'They're Grrreat': Chicago exhibit honors ad icons like Tony the Tiger, Pillsbury DoughboyMay 05, 2015 6:00 am - They're not TV's top stars - but they could have been. A multimedia exhibition from the Museum of Broadcast Communications is paying homage to some of advertising's grea...
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Hollywood animator teaches his craft at CODMay 05, 2015 5:30 am - The art Tony Venezia creates often goes unappreciated - stuff like animated titles, graphics and trailers that you see in movies and on television. In the movie "Total ...
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BFFs? Fonda, Tomlin reunite for Netflix's new comedy 'Grace and Frankie'May 04, 2015 6:00 am - Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are such good friends in real life, they're enjoying the challenge of playing women who aren't. The former “9 to 5” co-stars reunite in “Grace...
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'Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck': A clearer take on whatever, nevermindMay 03, 2015 7:00 am - Like Jim Morrison before him, Kurt Cobain exists in a dorm-room-poster afterlife, sanctified by fans, many of whom were born after his suicide in April 1994 and who ...
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DVD previews: 'Selma,' 'Black or White'May 02, 2015 7:00 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, May 5: "Selma" (PG-13, 127 minutes, Paramount): Director Ava DuVernay has created a stirring, often thrilling, uncannily timely...
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Stage, screen lives overlap for 'Nashville' star Aubrey PeeplesApr 29, 2015 6:00 am - The hit ABC show "Nashville" may be a scripted series, but when seven of the stars hit the road for a spring concert tour - arriving at the Rosemont Theatre Tuesday, May...
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Batavia man to appear on 'The Bachelorette'Apr 29, 2015 1:00 am - A Batavia native will be a contestant on this season of ABC's “The Bachelorette,” a family member confirmed Wednesday. Clint Arlis, 27, now an architect living in Chicag...
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Rowling's 'Casual Vacancy' makes for gripping yet bleak HBO miniseriesApr 27, 2015 6:00 am - Don't look for any boy wizards, giants or Hippogriffs in “The Casual Vacancy.” Author J.K. Rowling keeps her first non-“Harry Potter” novel firmly anchored in the all-to...