Dann Gire
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HGTV designer's style rooted in the suburbsApr 09, 2013 5:30 am - Shopping for home decor at Scentimental Gardens in Geneva last week, HGTV designer Meg Caswell found inspiration everywhere. “Oooh, those would look so good in a foyer,”...
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Infants move to new children's hospital in Hoffman EstatesApr 06, 2013 1:00 pm - Babies, babies, babies! Babies everywhere you looked! In hallways. In elevators. In rooms. In incubators. But mostly in the hearts of the parents and the nurses cautious...
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Gire laments loss of 'titan,' friend Roger EbertApr 04, 2013 5:00 pm - Chicago has lost a titan. I have lost a colleague and a friend. Today, as it must to all men, death came to Roger Ebert. The Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic of the...
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3-D makes 'Jurassic Park' pop even moreApr 04, 2013 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: "Jurassic Park 3-D" It took 700 artist/technicians nine months to give birth to a 3-D conversion of Steven Spielberg's 1993 2-D dinosaur thriller...
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'Evil Dead' remake heavy on gore, light on clever inventionApr 04, 2013 5:00 am - The poster for "Evil Dead" might be right. This could well be "the most terrifying film you will ever experience" - if you've never seen a horror movie before and will ...
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Wheaton native looks back on playing 'Pippi'Apr 02, 2013 4:45 am - One minute, she's just an 11-year-old kid from Wheaton. The next, Tami Erin is the acclaimed star of the movie "The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking," distributed w...
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English-language 'Poppy Hill' carries on Ghibli traditionMar 28, 2013 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: "From Up on Poppy Hill" Goro Miyazaki's "From Up on Poppy Hill" lacks a bit of the magic of the works of his famous filmmaking father Hayao Miyaz...
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'Sapphires' sparkles with energy, music and sisterhoodMar 28, 2013 6:00 am - "The Sapphires" possesses a real power, call it passion if you will, that radiates out of every frame in Wayne Blair's energizing, nostalgia-stuffed Vietnam-era musical ...
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Lombard filmmaker turned to skateboarding worldMar 26, 2013 5:15 am - During jury duty, filmmaker Brett Novak had an epiphany. The Lombard native was enjoying a thriving career as a visual special effects director and producer. He worked ...
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Comedy not quite worth price of 'Admission'Mar 21, 2013 6:00 am - I kept expecting something riotous to happen in Paul Weitz's new movie "Admission." You know, somebody to do something crazy. Or somebody to say something clever and qu...