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Hockey is the latest sport played at Chicago's Wrigley Field
A hockey game is quite a departure for Wrigley Field, which is widely known as a baseball park. But here are other sports played there over the years. Rodeo: In the 1940s and '50s, bronco riding and steer wrestling were big at Wrigley. Big Sid, a Brahma...Tags: Wrestling, Sting, Wrigley Field, Soldier Field, Rodeo
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$3.75 million bid for Lou Pearlman's mansion rejected
Sentinel Staff WriterWith a nod of his head, a real-estate investor agreed at an auction Saturday to buy disgraced boy-band promoter Lou Pearlman's waterfront mansion in Windermere for $3.75 million. Then, almost as quickly, a bankruptcy-court trustee deemed the offer too...Tags: Windermere, Auction Service, Bankruptcy, Pompano Beach, Financially Distressed Companies
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Essential Scorsese
MetromixWith the October 6 release of Boston-based cops and mobsters tale The Departed, legendary director Martin Scorsese again sets Hollywood ablaze. Critics praise the film not only for its acting and filmmaking, but also for Scorsese's return to the kind of...Tags: Joe Pesci, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster
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'Ordinary People' Best Picture
Times Staff WriterFrom The Times: April 1, 1981 Sissy Spacek, Robert DeNiro and "Ordinary People" won top honors Tuesday night at the 53rd annual Academy Awards ceremonies in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Center. DeNiro was honored as best...Tags: Mary Steenburgen, George Lucas, Film Festivals, Timothy Hutton, Culture
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Smash mouth
Tribune staff reporterToughness emanates from Buffalo Grove quarterback Tom Zbikowski's face, and it starts with a nose that has been broken three times. When Zbikowski was 9, his face stopped a 16-inch softball lined off the bat of older brother E.J. Three years later he...Tags: Students, Multi-Sport Events, Football, Teaching and Learning, Clothing Accessories
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Pugilistic prisoners
Following is a partial list of successful boxing figures who spent time in prison before, during or after their boxing careers. Tony Ayala, Jr., Aggravated sexual assault and burglary/attempted assault, 1983-99 and 2001, Up-and-coming junior middleweight...Tags: Boxing, George Foreman, Rape, Theft, Police Arrests
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'Analyze That'
Times Staff WriterIn the slapdash comedy "Analyze That" Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal reunite to toss around the sort of cheap jokes that Crosby and Hope used to take on the road to wherever. As with "Analyze This," the comedy that first brought the big-screen odd...Tags: Paul Schrader, Organized Crime, Martin Brest, Spring Creek, Tony Soprano
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Winning transformations in films
Baltimore SunFor all the attention it's been getting, you'd think Nicole Kidman's nose was the star of "The Hours," the much-acclaimed film about three women whose lives are affected by the works of author Virginia Woolf. To portray Woolf, Kidman sports a fake...Tags: Boris Karloff, Yul Brynner, Lon Chaney, Robert De Niro, Julia Roberts
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Playing Howard huge
STAFF WRITER(PG-13) Profile in (a different kind of) courage: The match of Martin Scorsese and Howard Hughes makes for one of the best of the director's career. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin. Screenplay by John...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Alan Alda, Gang Activity, John Anderson, Ava Gardner
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Cutthroat Island
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday December 22, 1995 It shouldn't be surprising that movie stars are not immune from big-screen dreams of their own, but who would have guessed that Geena Davis harbored a secret desire to be Errol Flynn? Yet, here she is in "Cutthroat...Tags: Errol Flynn, Matthew Modine, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Frank Langella, James Gorman
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Top winners from 1980
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in RAGING BULL Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; UA Robert Duvall as Bull Meechum in THE GREAT SANTINI Orion Pictures-Bing Crosby Production; Orion...Tags: Mary Steenburgen, Joe Pesci, Jack Lemmon, Jason Robards, Timothy Hutton
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RESURRECTING THE CHAMP: The original Times story
Times Staff WriterI'm sitting in a hotel room in Columbus, Ohio, waiting for a call from a man who doesn't trust me, hoping he'll have answers about a man I don't trust, which may clear the name of a man no one gives a damn about. To distract myself from this uneasy vigil-...Tags: Trials, Floyd Patterson, Hotels and Accommodations, Tourism and Leisure, Court Administration
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