Entertainment
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Seven offbeat new businesses that emerged in the suburbs in 2021Dec 27, 2021 4:30 am - Entrepreneurs continued to innovate ways to find suburban customers during the second year of a pandemic, resulting in the opening of some atypical new businesses in 202...
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Notable deaths in the entertainment world in 2021Dec 27, 2021 12:00 am - January Jan. 4: actress Tanya Roberts, "Charlie's Angels," "That '70s Show," age 65; actor Gregory Sierra, "Barney Miller," age 83 Jan. 7: filmmaker Michael Apted, ...
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Goodman Theatre cancels rest of 'A Christmas Carol' runDec 27, 2021 12:00 am - Chicago's Goodman Theatre announced the cancellation of all remaining performances of "A Christmas Carol" after COVID-19 exposures within the company. The theater cance...
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'Spider-Man' surpasses $1B globally in second weekend
Dec 26, 2021 10:00 pm - Peter Parker's good fortune continued over the holiday weekend as Hollywood prepares to close the books on a turbulent 2021. Even with some mighty competition from new M...
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Ike Reilly reschedules release show, food driveDec 26, 2021 5:00 pm - Libertyville's Ike Reilly was prepared to lend a helping hand during the holidays, but the omicron COVID-19 variant has put that on hold. Reilly's “Because the Angels” ...
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Q&A: Almodóvar on unearthing the past in 'Parallel Mothers'
Dec 26, 2021 6:30 am - Pedro Almodóvar has a theory that his films with male protagonists, like his autobiographical 2019 film "Pain and Glory," are darker and more somber. "I look inside myse...
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Blanchett, del Toro on the femme fatale of 'Nightmare Alley'
Dec 26, 2021 6:30 am - With a touch of Barbara Stanwyck, a sumptuous Art Deco office and a deadly shade of crimson lipstick, Cate Blanchett plays a femme fatale in Guillermo del Toro's "Nightm...
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Denzel Washington on directing: 'I'm still learning'
Dec 25, 2021 6:30 am - Preparing to direct “A Journal for Jordan,” a bittersweet love story that opened on Christmas Day, Denzel Washington says he took a “master class.” That master class con...
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It's onward and upward for the Napiers as HGTV's 'Home Town' starts Season 6Dec 25, 2021 6:30 am - For Ben and Erin Napier, "Home Town" is not only a TV show but also a lifestyle to be embraced. Indeed, the husband-and-wife home restorers from Laurel, Mississippi, con...
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Ron Onesti: A little George Bailey in all of usDec 24, 2021 5:00 am - "Wizard Of Oz," "Casablanca," "Citizen Kane," "Gone With The Wind," "The Godfather." The exclusive list goes on with timeless classic films that have touched the hearts ...