Television
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‘Today’ and new co-host fall to ‘GMA’ in Week 1Jul 21, 2012 6:58 am - NEW YORK — A majority of morning viewers has greeted the arrival of Savannah Guthrie with a yawn in her first week as “Today” show co-anchor. NBC’s “Today” was beaten la...
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Sedgwick wraps seven-season run as 'The Closer'Jul 20, 2012 5:00 am - Sooner or later, every drama series must close. Even “The Closer.” By her own choice, Emmy winner Kyra Sedgwick is wrapping up her seven-season TNT run as police interr...
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'Glee' star Chris Colfer inspires teens at Naperville bookstoreJul 19, 2012 10:00 pm - Casey Cogan came all the way from Canada to meet her idol - and she brought gifts. The Ontario native, 17, wants Chris Colfer to know that no matter what life brings h...
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’Fringe’ cast bids tearful goodbye to Comic-Con<Jul 19, 2012 5:49 pm - SAN DIEGO — There were no doppelgangers at the final panel for “Fringe” at Comic-Con, but there were plenty of tears. “Fringe” stars Jasika Nicole, Anna Torv and Lance R...
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Sigourney Weaver’s faux-Hillary deserves more votesJul 19, 2012 8:28 am - Is “Political Animals” just too Hillary? USA’s political soap opera stars the terrific Sigourney Weaver as a Secretary of State with a philandering ex (ex- husband, ex-p...
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‘Mad Men’ leads Emmy nominationsJul 19, 2012 7:58 am - LOS ANGELES — “Mad Men,” a piercingly bleak portrait of a 1960s American anti-hero, earned a leading 17 Emmy nominations Thursday and the chance to set a record as the m...
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East Dundee man has hand in ‘Great Lake Warriors’ showJul 19, 2012 5:30 am - There’s a lot of folklore and legend surrounding the Great Lakes, which are responsible for more than 30,000 mariner deaths and 6,000 shipwrecks. An East Dundee man is a...
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St. Charles boy wows 'Shameless' producersJul 18, 2012 11:00 pm - When Ethan Cutkosky landed a part in the Showtime series “Shameless” three years ago, producers thought the 10-year-old from St. Charles had just the perfect face for th...
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Charlie Sheen ‘genuinely interested’ in ‘Idol’ gigJul 17, 2012 1:10 pm - NEW YORK — Could Charlie Sheen be a judge on “American Idol”? The actor says he’s game. In an interview Tuesday on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show, Sheen said “Idol” producer...
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Rolling Meadows' Gary “Lumbergh” Cole is serious, tooJul 16, 2012 11:00 pm - He's played a crazed killer, postured as the vice president and voiced an animated bunny. Yet, actor Gary Cole, who grew up in Rolling Meadows, insists it's just a coin...