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Capsule Reviews: 'Tracing Cowboys,' 'Yonkers Joe'
On the last scheduled day of shooting what would become "Tracing Cowboys," writer, co-producer and lead actor Sacha Grunpeter died in an auto accident. The specter of this knowledge haunts the finished film, directed by Jason Wulfsohn, giving it a sense...Tags: Casino and Gambling, Fraud, Sam Adams, Christine Lahti, Michael Lerner
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It takes 2 to Blago
So here's the question: Were they hard of hearing? "They" being Team Obama, flush with victory and eager to start putting together a new administration. "Hearing"—even minimal "hearing"—being all that would have been necessary to catch the...Tags: The White House, Government, Regional Authority, Saddam Hussein, Rod Blagojevich
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Curtain opens on local stage with Pennsylvania Playhouse's 'Lend Me a Tenor'
Special to The Morning CallThe 2009 area theater season features area premieres of rarely performed musicals, exciting off-Broadway dramas and theatrical classics that I love seeing again and again. In February, DeSales University's Act 1 presents Arthur Miller's classic ''Death...Tags: Theater, Milk (movie), Colleges and Universities, Music Theater, Lehigh University
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Something stinks
Tribune reporterThe cultural world churned up yet another heaping serving of fishy stench in 2008. To the stinkers go … Ick Paparazzi stalked 15-year-old Miley Cyrus seeking a $30,000-$150,000 payday for a snap of her first kiss. Double ick Speaking of...Tags: Earthquakes, Chris Brown, Amy Winehouse, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Movies
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Sushigate more evidence that Broadway is in the tank
Tribune criticAfter a 15-year run of expansion, growth and optimism, Broadway has imploded in aptly dramatic fashion this fall. And when the tide of good times rolls back, all kinds of nastiness gets left behind on the shore. Even allegedly poisonous sushi. The...Tags: Theater, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Medicine, Music Theater, Foods and Beverages
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Mercury rising: Sushigate heats up
Thanks to Jeremy Piven, the "sushi defense" may become as culturally notorious as Harvey Milk assassin Dan White's "Twinkie defense," though the Evanston-raised actor's offense merely was ditching the successful Broadway production of David Mamet's...Tags: Theater, Greenwich, Film Festivals, Music Theater, Foods and Beverages
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THEATER: THE WORST
There is plenty of competition this year, especially from such baffling crowd-pleasers as David Mamet's witless "November" and the tiresome "Boeing-Boeing. " But my choice must be John Patrick Shanley's first-ever musical, "Romantic Poetry. " Just as he...Tags: Doubt (movie), Boeing Co.
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Ghosts of movies, comics past linger over Frank Miller's 'The Spirit'
Special to The Morning CallThis is what ''Sin City'' would have looked like without the restraining hand of co-director Robert Rodriguez behind the camera. And ''300,'' shorn of Zack Snyder's reality? It might have had the same expressionist flourishes, the loony, loopy excesses of...Tags: Frank Miller, Angelina Jolie, Roger Moore, Samuel L. Jackson, Star Trek (movie)
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British playwright Harold Pinter dies of cancer at 78
Associated PressBritish Nobel laureate Harold Pinter - who produced some of his generation's most influential dramas and later became a staunch critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq - has died, his widow said yesterday. He was 78. Pinter died Wednesday after a long...Tags: Franz Kafka, Sam Shepard, Theater, Family, International Military Interventions
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Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter dies at 78 after battle with cancer, his wife says
Associated Press WriterLONDON (AP) — Few playwrights but Harold Pinter are known for their deliberate use of silence — a dramatic style now known as "Pinter-esque" to describe the Nobel laureate's use of halting dialogue and pregnant pauses. Pinter, who died of...Tags: Theater, George Bush, Tony Blair, Ernest Hemingway, Cornwall
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'South Pacific,' 'Seagull' among Broadway's best in '08
linda.winer@newsday.comEconomic life feels so grim right now that it helps to remember pleasures before and beyond the imploding financial cosmos. In addition to the 10 favorites below, we have had a stunning grown-up Broadway debut by Daniel Radcliffe (yes, Harry Potter naked)...Tags: Bill Irwin, Theater, John Goodman, National or Ethnic Minorities, Film Festivals
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British Playwright Harold Pinter, 78
Washington PostHarold Pinter, who was widely esteemed as the most important British playwright of the past half-century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2005, died Wednesday of cancer in London. He was 78. Pinter, who wrote more than 30 plays, was...Tags: John Gielgud, David Hare, Theater, Sam Shepard, Reviews
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