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Review: "Life on Mars"
Newsday Staff WriterTHE SHOW " Life on Mars," WABC/7, 10 tonight REASON TO WATCH Harvey Keitel, plus New York City, circa 1973. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Viewers are dropped into present-day NYC, as Det. Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara) and partner/lover Det. Maya Daniels ( Lisa Bonet)...Tags: Lisa Bonet, David Bowie, Mad Men, Kansas, Harvey Keitel
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Review: 'Life on Mars'
verne.gay@newsday.comTHE SHOW "Life on Mars," WABC/7, 10 tonight REASON TO WATCH Harvey Keitel, plus New York City, circa 1973. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Viewers are dropped into present-day NYC, as Det. Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara) and partner/lover Det. Maya Daniels (Lisa Bonet)...Tags: Lisa Bonet, David Bowie, Mad Men, Kansas, Harvey Keitel
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Hide & shriek at Universal's Halloween Horror Nights
Orlando SentinelThere's just something about Bloody Mary. Maybe it's her blank eyes. Maybe it's her stage-whispery voice or her ghostly complexion. Most likely it's her omnipresence. Bloody Mary, the icon of this year's Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios,...Tags: Religious Festivals, Public Holidays, Migration, Universal Orlando, Interstate 4
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Bloody Mary reigns at Universal's 18th Halloween Horror Nights
Sentinel Columnist dewayne Bevil, Sentinel Staff WriterThere's just something about Bloody Mary. Maybe it's her blank eyes. Maybe it's her otherworldly, stage-whispery voice or her ghostly-yet-scarred complexion. Most likely it's her omnipresence. Bloody Mary, the icon of this year's Halloween Horror...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Religious Festivals, Public Holidays, Migration, Halloween Horror Nights
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Un espantapájaros a la mexicana
El mundo de Oz de Antonio de Carlo es muy diferente al de L. Frank Baum. El productor mexicano ha tomado la legendaria obra de Baum y le ha dado un giro latino para crear una linda historia en un mundo -e idioma- con el que los inmigrantes se puedan... -
Theater season preview
Sentinel Staff WriterAmway Shakespeare Opportunity Twitter of the Shrew will be at a site to be announced. The Shakespeariment will be at the Walt Disney Amphitheater at Lake Eola Park, 101 N. Rosalind Ave., Orlando. Details: 407-792-9421. Twitter of the Shrew: Feb. 14....Tags: David Henry Hwang, Religious Festivals, Jerry Herman, Orange County (Florida), Irving Berlin
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'The Baum Plan for Financial Independence' by John Kessel
Special to the TimesTHE EPONYMOUS first story in John Kessel's new collection, "The Baum Plan for Financial Independence," gets straight to the point. A hardscrabble ex-con is whisked with his sometime moll to a fantastical place where they're handed bags of cash. Easy, no?...Tags: Family, Book, Ethics, Values, Jane Austen
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'Wicked' will close Chicago run in January
Tribune criticThe unprecedented Chicago production of "Wicked" will ring down its final curtain after its 1,500th performance at the Oriental Theatre on Jan. 25, 2009, show producer David Stone is expected to announce Wednesday. By the time they fly away, the witches...Tags: Startups, Tickets, Oriental Theater, New York, Indiana
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Sci Fi's Oz update 'Tin Man' has heart
Tribune television criticAuthor L. Frank Baum wasn't stingy when it came to loading "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" with resonant themes and useful storytelling devices. There's a quest, a band of outsiders who become a family of sorts, a battle between good and evil, a witch or...Tags: Kansas, Television, Metal and Mineral, Ethics, Judy Garland
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Sci Fi Takes Heart in 'Tin Man' Ratings
Zap2It.comThere was no place like the Sci Fi Channel for miniseries viewers on Sunday night. The network scored its best ratings ever for the first night of its "Tin Man" miniseries, a reimagining of the L. Frank Baum classic, "The Wizard of Oz." The Dec. 2...Tags: Steven Spielberg, Richard Dreyfuss, Alan Cumming
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'Tin Man' Says, 'Welcome to The O.Z.'
Zap2It.comThe 1939 movie version of "The Wizard of Oz," starring Judy Garland as a Kansas farm girl who rides a twister into a fairy-tale land -- and Margaret Hamilton as perhaps the most famous movie witch ever -- is all people know of L. Frank Baum's 1900 story,...Tags: Kansas, Ethics, Film Festivals, Values, Richard Dreyfuss
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Lincoln and his complex times
The Age of Lincoln By Orville Vernon BurtonHill and Wang As the country begins the countdown for the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial in 2009, be warned: There will be dozens of books with "Lincoln" in the title competing for space on the front tables at...Tags: History, Wars and Interventions, Statue of Liberty, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Illinois
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