Television
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Bill James retrieves his wand from baseball's storage binsFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Here's an early entrant for baseball's Comeback of the Year: none other than stats guru Bill James. James, of course, changed the game with his annual "Abstracts" in th...
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Fox comes 'Unhitched'Feb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - When the Farrelly brothers, who never met a gross-out joke they didn't like, come to Fox, home of TV's crassest comedies, the caustic mixture could achieve critical mass...
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4 more singers shown the door on 'Idol' as the show trims competition to 16
Feb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Four more aspiring singers failed to convince viewers that they have what it takes to win the star-making talent contest "American Idol." The voting public cut loose Ala...
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Oprah Winfrey expands her media empire into reality TVFeb 27, 2008 10:00 pm - Charity, we're told, should come from the heart. But in Oprah Winfrey's latest attempt to expand her television empire, it comes instead from the desire to compete -- in...
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Oscars's 80th birthday doesn't pull in viewers
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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...