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What's your Oscar ChI-Q?
1) Which is the only one of these filmed-in-Chicago movies to receive at least one Oscar nomination? a) "The Blues Brothers" b) "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" c) "High Fidelity" d) "Home Alone" e) "Risky Business" 2) Which set-in-Chicago movie won the...Tags: Francois Truffaut, Shirley Jones, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Mike Nichols
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In the running for best actor…
Among the nominees are two A-list stars, a Tony winner, a deserving dark horse and a surprising front-runner. Here's the breakdown: Richard Jenkins MOVIE "The Visitor" THE DEAL A recognizable character actor but not a marquee name, Jenkins...Tags: Mickey Rourke, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (movie), Richard Jenkins, The Visitor (movie), Academy Awards
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Peter Puck was a towering media figure in the 1970s
WatchdogExcellent job out of Fang's Bites rounding up these old Peter Puck episodes from the 1970s. I quite enjoy Sundays in late February and early March. No NFL, no March Madness, no baseball. Nothing but cold drizzle and the numbing......Tags: Cuba Gooding Jr., Mickey Rourke, Denzel Washington, Harold Lloyd, NBA
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Financial executives' picks for best actors, films of all-time
Tribune reporterWith the Academy Awards only days away, five private-equity, banking and investment executives recalled their favorite movies, actors and actresses. John Tilson, Chicago principal for investment bank Brown Gibbons Lang & Co., said among the movies up for...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Dustin Hoffman, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (movie), Steve McQueen, Signature Bank
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Local bankers, investors talk movies
Tribune staff reporterWith the Academy Awards only days away, five private equity, banking and investment executives reminisced about their favorite movies or actors or actresses. John Tilson, Chicago principal for investment bank Brown Gibbons Lang & Co., said among the...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Paul Newman, Dick Powell, Sergio Leone, Celebrity
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Weekend Watchdog goes to the movies: The greatest sports scenes in non-sports movies
Ever noticed how often movies include sports references or scenes? We have. And so in honor of Sunday's Academy Awards presentation, here are the Top 10 Sports Scenes in Non-Sports Movies. 10. The Falcon and the Snowman (1985). Spy Christopher Boyce (...Tags: Jeff Bridges, Ethan Coen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Ernie Harwell, Nathan Lane
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Is a surprise in store for best actor?
rafer.guzman@newsday.comWhen the Oscars are handed out Sunday, the suspense leading up to the best actor award will be palpable. Among the nominees are two A-list stars, a Tony winner, a deserving dark horse and a surprising front-runner. Here's the breakdown: ACTOR Richard...Tags: Mickey Rourke, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (movie), Richard Jenkins, Academy Awards, The Visitor (movie)
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Obama, with stars and masses, celebrates
The SwampPresident-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, arrive for the Obama Inauguration Celebration on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Sunday January 18, 2009. (Brian Baer/Sacramento Bee/MCT) by Frank James and Jill Zuckman Joined by...Tags: Bon Jovi (band), National Government, Martin Luther King Jr., Pete Seeger, Folk Music
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Starbucks job fantasy comes to bitter end
I don't personally know anyone who quit a good job to work at Starbucks, but I know a lot of people who've fantasized. Was your current job too stressful? Was it eating up your life with the ferocity of a starving dog? Even if you liked your job, was...Tags: Movies, Starbucks Corp.
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Nervous about Friday the 13th? So are these rockers
Special to the TribuneBad luck, eerie phobias, strange phenomena. Yes, it's Friday the 13th, a day that breeds superstition. Try though they may, musicians aren't immune to believing in the power of odd rituals and other related quirks. Just take the word of the following...Tags: Meg Ryan, Rod Blagojevich, Movies, Crispin Clover, Corey Feldman
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Today's TV Highlights
9:15 a.m. MAX "Disturbia" Cleverly updating Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window," this 2007 suspense drama casts Shia LaBeouf as a youth whose anger problems get him placed under house arrest. Deprived of his usual distractions, he starts spying on...Tags: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ron Howard, Shia LaBeouf, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris
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Breves
El ex presidente de Polonia y premio Nobel de la Paz, Lech Walesa, no viajó a Venezuela, luego de las palabras de rechazo del presidente Hugo Chávez. Aunque el mandatario levantó la prohibición de la entrada de Walesa, el ex líder de Solidaridad...Tags: Celebrities and "Bad Behavior", Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Dining and Drinking
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