Dann Gire
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'Family Wedding' invites all racial clichésMar 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Lucia Ramirez has a confession for her conservative, Mexican-American father, Miguel. She dropped out of law school and intends to marry a black medical student, then go...
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'Out of My League' star to Gire: No one's out of my leagueMar 11, 2010 10:00 pm - I sat down at Chicago's Trump International Towers for a brief chat with the stars of the new comedy "She's Out of My League," Jay Baruchel, 27, and Nate Torrence, 32. T...
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Dann chats with Disney's first African-American princessMar 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Five questions for Anika Noni Rose, who supplies the voice and personality of Tiana, Walt Disney's first African-American princess in "The Princess and the Frog," coming...
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Moody 'Remember Me' revels in dark romanceMar 11, 2010 10:00 pm - "Remember Me" makes an easy target for criticism. It's slow and slightly pretentious with "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson channeling James Dean, or at least James Franc...
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Palatine High alum wins Oscar for work with 'Avatar'Mar 07, 2010 10:00 pm - Clutching his first Oscar, cinematographer and Palatine High School graduate Mauro Fiore Sunday thanked "Avatar" director James Cameron "for his amazing vision" and his ...
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'Hurt Locker' earns best-picture Academy AwardMar 07, 2010 10:00 pm - In an evening where all the winners pretty much lined up as expected, Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" won the Best Picture statuette during the 82nd a...
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Could an upset send Oscar up in the air?Mar 06, 2010 10:00 pm - Imagine more than a billion people around the globe all united in a single, magnificent, collective yawn at precisely the same moment. That could happen tonight if the m...
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'Avatar' cinematographer followed path from Palatine to PandoraMar 06, 2010 10:00 pm - Try to intimidate Mauro Fiore. Go on. Just try. The 1982 Palatine High School graduate is up for an Academy Award tonight for his camera work on James Cameron's cutting-...
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'Public Enemies' wasn't exactly an Oscar contenderMar 04, 2010 10:00 pm - 'Enemies' forgotten? Dear Dann: What is your opinion as to why "Public Enemies" was not nominated for anything? Is it true what they say about the Academy "forget...
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'Brooklyn's Finest' a brooding mess of Hollywood hokumMar 03, 2010 10:00 pm - "These streets," an undercover cop named Tango tells an ex-con kingpin, "have an expiration date!" What? Did he really say that? The streets have an expiration date? Thi...