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Michigan women thrive on local film industry
McClatchy/Chicago Tribune newspapersDETROIT—One day, they could be arranging for 20 bald guys to meet with Drew Barrymore's team. The next, they're combing Detroit for men and women with Mohawks. For Kathy Remski and Rose Gilpin, the explosion of movie and TV filming in metro Detroit...Tags: Andie MacDowell, Television, Macy's, Sigourney Weaver, Neiman Marcus
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'Hollywood Under Siege' by Thomas R. Lindlof
Special to The TimesJuly 24, 2008 There are moments in cultural history, notes Thomas Lindlof in a phrase typical of his fluent but never fussy prose, "of gathered tension." Such a moment came with the 1988 release of Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ," an...Tags: Religious Leaders, Christianity, Franco Zeffirelli, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese
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Pilots: Aidan Quinn Drives to 'Motor City'
Zap2It.comABC's pilot "Prince of Motor City" is a drama co-written by a sitcom actor, loosely inspired by "Hamlet" and set in Detroit's auto industry. It's also attracting one of the deeper casts of any show in development this season. The latest additions to the...Tags: Andie MacDowell, Morris Chestnut, Rutger Hauer, New York City Police Department, Batman
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'Dark Matter'
(2 STARS) DARK MATTER (R). A film almost impossible to review without giving everything away - especially everything that's wrong - "Dark Matter" is elegantly directed by the debuting Chen Shi-Zheng. It features several superb performances ( Meryl Streep,...Tags: Meryl Streep, Manhattan (New York City), John Anderson, Movies
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Review: 'Canterbury's Law' premieres on Fox
diane.werts@newsday.comAh, yes, the flawed hero. Such screw-up fun to watch, so crankily rewarding to play. Always lucky to have the plucky wife/girlfriend/companion who sticks through thick and thin, despite the flawed hero's, well, flaws. And so fortunate that loyal co-...Tags: Television, Glenn Close, Julianna Margulies, Denis Leary, Holly Hunter
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Professor pretty boy
Special to NewsdayIt's not as if Aidan Quinn had a lot of time to prepare for his role as a high-powered physics professor in "Dark Matter," opening today. Fact is, the makers of the low-budget film about the professional and personal conflicts between a Chinese exchange...Tags: Meryl Streep, Television, Culture, Michael Collins, Sam Shepard
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A new regime, direction for Split Pillow
Chicago filmmaking collective Split Pillow celebrates its fifth anniversary Memorial Day weekend, signaling a new direction with new leadership. Dennis Belogorsky, a longtime board member with the non-profit, replaces founder and executive director Jason...Tags: Culture, Jean Harlow, Music Box Theatre, Michael Wilson, Indiana
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A Demanding Film With A Shocking Finale
Courant Staff WriterPatience wins out for those who dedicate themselves to "Dark Matter." Nine-tenths of the way through the film, one still wonders what director Shi-Zheng Chen is driving at. The story is interesting and sad in a slow-burning way. But something is missing....Tags: Meryl Streep, Health and Safety at School, Real Art Ways, Movies
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Dark Matter takes a dark view of the American Dream
"Dark Matter" is a partly sweet, partly brooding, occasionally awkward film, much like its main character. Liu Xing (Ye Liu) plays a Chinese student who moves to an anonymous college town -- judging from the hilly terrain, presumably somewhere out West --...Tags: Meryl Streep, Teaching and Learning, Students, Metal and Mineral, Bill Irwin
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Movie Review: 'Dark Matter'
A film almost impossible to review without giving everything away — especially everything that's wrong — "Dark Matter" is elegantly directed by the debuting Chen Shi-Zheng. It features several superb performances (Meryl Streep, Liu Ye). And it...Tags: Meryl Streep, John Anderson, Movies
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TV Review: 'Canterbury's Law'
Zap2It.comAfter mastering the mixture of character drama and procedural hijinx on shows like "House" and "Bones," FOX has fallen into a bit of a rut. The fall saw the speedy failure of "K-Ville," a drama that wasted fantastic location work and a solid cast in a...Tags: Prosecution, Julianna Margulies, Rhode Island, Canterbury, Mike Figgis
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Stratford-on-the-lake? This is suddenly a Shakespeare town
Ever since the first Chicago production of "Hamlet" in 1839, there's been a place here for William Shakespeare. You could see "Othello" at the McVicker's Theatre on West Madison Street as early as 1858. The St. Nicholas Players did "A Midsummer Night's...Tags: Chicago Shakespeare Theater, David Mamet, William Shakespeare, William H Macy, Navy Pier
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