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Colleagues remember Jerome Holtzman
A small envelope would come once in a while, familiar Evanston return address on the outside, familiar insight on the inside. Any word from Jerome Holtzman was welcome. He was a gruff man but a gentleman, a newspaper bulldog but an old softie, a U.S....Tags: Bob Gibson, Books and Magazines, Harry Caray, Health and Safety at Work, Ozzie Guillen
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No shortage of nominees for local media hall of fame
With Howard Stern and Steve Dahl snubbed again in voting this year, and other major impact players such as Studs Terkel not even nominated, the so-called National Radio Hall of Fame remains as incomplete as Chicago's half-built Museum of Broadcast...Tags: Harry Caray, Periodicals, Marshall Field, Jerry Springer, Mike Royko
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Long-shot winner? Try Fasth
IN THE WAKE OF THE NEWSOK, which of these guys is our Cinderella story? Who's going to become our Tampa Bay Rays of golf? Where is our Da' Tara, that 38-to-1 colt out of the blue that outran Big Brown? Could it be Brian Kortan, a 37-year-old heart-attack survivor with a...Tags: Ryuji Imada, Craig Stadler, Big Brown, Cancer, Golf
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The Long, Storied Life And Stories Of Hila Colman
Special to The Courant"Extraordinary Life" looks back each Sunday on someone whose life made a difference. There was no pigeonholing Hila Colman, a woman who never did things by halves. She wrote 70 books. She had four husbands. She lived the life of a spoiled, rich New...Tags: New York Times, Books and Magazines, Schools, New Milford, New York
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'Trumbo'
Times Film Critic"Trumbo" is an unconventional film about an unconventional man. Part documentary, part expertly staged readings, it focuses on the unquiet life and unforgettable words of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, someone who, as his son puts it, never had to go looking...Tags: Liam Neeson, Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Movies, Kirk Douglas
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The forgotten confines
TRIBUNE REPORTERMike Reischl, Chicago 10th District cop and chief of the Way Out in Left Field Society, understands if you're a die-hard Cubs fan but can't recall the Spuds, Orphans, Rainmakers, Trojans or Panamas—all former nicknames for Chicago's National...Tags: Wrigley Field, Illnesses, History, Chicago Cubs, Christy Mathewson
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Director Robert Altman dies
The EnvelopeRobert Altman, the maverick director who earned a reputation as one of America's most original filmmakers with landmark movies such as "MASH," "Nashville" and "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" has died. He was 81. Altman, who never stopped producing and directing...Tags: Armed Forces, New York Times, Rube Goldberg, Anjelica Huston, Newspaper and Magazine
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Writers Guild Dubs 'Casablanca' Top Screenplay
Zap2It.comJulius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch's "Casablanca" script, adapted from the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison, has been saluted as the greatest screenplay ever by the members of the Writers Guild of America. The...Tags: Billy Wilder, John Huston, Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman
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Those lucky Red Sox
Tribune staff reporterIt seems fitting that the Cubs should play a part in the Boston Red Sox saga. The last time the Red Sox won the World Series, they beat the team with the other most storied curse in sports. On Sept. 11, 1918, Boston defeated the Cubs 2-1 to take the...Tags: New York Times, Boston Red Sox, Wrigley Field, Lefty Grove, Major League Baseball
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Country
Staff WriterIt was the beginning of a decade of Prohibition and apparent prosperity: a time of jazz bands and petting parties, high-stepping flappers and college boys with hip flasks. On Long Island, there were rumrunners and dealers in bathtub gin, gaudy parties on...Tags: New York Times, James Joyce, Schools, Newspaper and Magazine, Labor Day
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