Dann Gire
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Stoic Moore is less in bleak, belligerent 'Blindness'Oct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Fernando Meirelles' bleak and belligerent "Blindness" begins as an M. Night Shyamalan mystery, then careens into an apocalyptical "Lord of the Flies" before crashing and...
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Dann's favorite celebrity quotesOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Thirty years of interviewing filmmakers yields a lot of great quotes. Here are my favorites: "Greed." Director Robert Altman on the greatest problem facing the motion p...
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Clichés dog silly 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua'Oct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - There's a difference between a dumb Walt Disney movie for kids, and a parody of a dumb Walt Disney movie for kids. Except in the case of "Beverly Hills Chihuahua." With ...
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Pegg and pig funniest part of 'How to Lose Friends'Oct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Simon Pegg's great gift in "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" is his ability to take a self-centered, toxically obnoxious main character and breathe just enough w...
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'Nick & Norah' infinitely charmingOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" is a pungent, nocturnal metropolitan romantic comedy light on plot, but heavy on chemistry between its two appealing main actors. Plus...
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Screen test: Test your Dann Gire knowledgeOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - 1. He is a former fencer. 2. He tried to get a job as an undercover drug agent. 3. He and John Records Landecker hosted a movie review show, "John and Dann Go to the Mov...
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'Allah Made Me Funny' at Century CentreOct 01, 2008 11:00 pm - "Allah Made Me Funny" Three Muslim comedians perform their edgy stand-up routines in this standard HBO-like concert movie where no subject is taboo. Cops, President Bush...
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Schamburg resident recalls evening with Paul NewmanSep 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Schaumburg resident Sharee Pemberton still remembers the night she was alone with Paul Newman. "He had such an energy and an aura," she said. In 2001, Pemberton was the ...
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Newman on Oscars, car racing, marriageSep 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Editor's note: What follows is a reprint of an interview with Paul Newman by Daily Herald Firm Critic Dann Gire. The article ran on Dec. 3, 1982, just as "The Verdic...
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Newman, known for those eyes, remembered for his heartSep 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Nothing reveals more about Paul Newman than the time he suggested his own epitaph: "Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown." Self-deprec...