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Sunday: "Nick News Special Edition" 8 p.m., Nickelodeon: Since 1992, Linda Ellerbee takes kids' questions to the two presidential candidates. Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama sit down with the veteran journalist, and each candidate tackles the same...Tags: New York, Political Candidates, Hofstra University, Steve Carell, The Office
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TV highlights
Series ■■■ ■■ Bones Parker finds a finger in a bird's nest, and the team searches for the rest of the body. (N) 8 p.m. ■■ ■■ America's Next Top Model Tyra reveals it's time for makeovers; tears...Tags: Jay Leno, Alyssa Milano, Ed Harris, Meghan McCain, Crossroads
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'Rent' spent
They cheered, they cried and gave the show a standing ovation even before the first note was sung. Broadway said goodbye Sunday to Rent, 12 years and 5,124 performances after it first became a rock musical with a message for theatergoers of all ages....Tags: Adam Sandler, Theater, Celebrity, Music, Cliff Robertson
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Denver hosts the Democrats—and a ton of fun
Special to the Chicago TribuneFor the first time in a century, the Democratic National Convention is in Denver. The Mile High City will be jammed with candidates, delegates, journalists, lobbyists and assorted hangers-on this week, but soon after is a fine time to visit. You'll find...Tags: Meg Ryan, Theater, National Government, Colorado, Heavy Engineering
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Firth can't resuscitate 'Father'
(D) At some point, Colin Firth took over for Hugh Grant as America's official Englishman. Stiffly charming and awkwardly mannered, Firth conveys everything that Americans love, hate, love to hate and hate to love about the British. He's even become...Tags: Jim Broadbent, Movies, Colin Firth
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Matthew Goode hits the books
First Matthew Goode confounded all the early comparisons to Hugh Grant by playing an American sociopath in 2007's The Lookout. Now the handsome, lanky English actor takes on perhaps his most morally complex role in the film version of a literary classic...Tags: Michael Gambon, Medical Specialization, Genetics, Brideshead Revisited, Movies
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Monsanto to sell hormone unit
Bloomberg NewsMonsanto Co., the world's biggest seed producer, plans to divest its Posilac dairy hormone business to focus on genetically modified crops. The synthetic hormone, which is given to dairy cows to boost milk production, will be sold in the coming months,...Tags: Sales, Medical Specialization, Monsanto Company, New York, Genetics
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Coldplay mixes Big Music with a little goofiness
Chicago Tribune criticOn its 2006 tour, Coldplay figured out how to supersize its shows. Once a fluff-up-the-pillow band of balladeers, built on Chris Martin's falsetto voice and upright piano, the British quartet muscled up and swung for the rafters, in keeping with its...Tags: United Center, Brian Eno, Music, Coldplay, David Gilmour
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Movies
BASIC CABLE "Two Weeks Notice" ** 7 p.m., 9:15 p.m., AMC Fans of Sandra Bullock and/or Hugh Grant should like their teaming in this light but enjoyable 2002 comedy produced by Bullock. She plays the latest lawyer hired by a womanizing real-estate tycoon...Tags: Dana Ivey, Ben Stiller, Sandra Bullock, Movies, Neil Simon
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Movie Buzz: A 'Smurfs movie?
rafer.guzman@newsday.comWHO The Smurfs, the blue-skinned gnomes who frolicked in Saturday morning cartoons throughout the 1980s, may be coming to the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter. THE DEAL Sony Pictures Animation (along with Columbia Pictures) is working on a...Tags: Sony Corp., New York, Werner Herzog, Television, Celebrity
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Fast chat: Colin Firth
Thirteen years have passed since Colin Firth became, as Jane Austen might put it, "universally acknowledged" as the definitive Mr. Darcy in the lionized BBC TV miniseries of Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." In the intervening time, the 47-year-old actor...Tags: Discrimination, New York, Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis
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LaBeouf says craving for smoke led to arrest
Shia LaBeouf says it was a "nic-fit" that got him arrested in Chicago last year. And he shared last week with David Letterman just what was going through his head. Brace yourself: This once squeaky-clean Disney kid was drunk, so don't expect much of a...Tags: Britney Spears, Shia LaBeouf, Celebrity, Harrison Ford, Dennis Quaid
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