Highlights
Chicago resident Joan Cusack has appeared in dozens of films and television shows since she first came to national attention in the 1980 film "My Bodyguard." Born Oct. 11, 1962, she was attending Evanston Township High School when she won that role. She was picked out of the Piven Theater workshop based in Evanston, which her younger brother, the actor John Cusack, also attended. She has since appeared in the films "Nine Months," "Raising Helen," "Addams Family Values," "Ice Princess" and "Broadcast News." She was nominated twice for best supporting actress Oscars-in 1988 for "Working Girl" and 1997 for "In and Out." In 2007, Cusack and her husband, Chicago lawyer Richard Burke, sold their h...
Chicago resident Joan Cusack has appeared in dozens of films and television shows since she first came to national attention in the 1980 film "My Bodyguard." Born Oct. 11, 1962, she was attending Evanston Township High School when she won that role. She was picked out of the Piven Theater workshop based in Evanston, which her younger brother, the actor John Cusack, also attended. She has since appeared in the films "Nine Months," "Raising Helen," "Addams Family Values," "Ice Princess" and "Broadcast News." She was nominated twice for best supporting actress Oscars-in 1988 for "Working Girl" and 1997 for "In and Out." In 2007, Cusack and her husband, Chicago lawyer Richard Burke, sold their home in the Ravenswood area of Chicago for $4.66 million and paid $5.3 million for a six-bedroom, 8,000-square-foot-plus vintage mansion on the Gold Coast. Features in the renovated, 13-room mansion include six and a half baths, seven fireplaces, a great room, a de Giulio kitchen with a double oven and a master bath with a whirlpool. Other features include a library, an indoor swimming pool, Tiffany stained glass and an exercise room.
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'Journey to the Center of the Earth';
Journey to the Center of the Earth
New Line, $28.98; Blu-ray, $35.99
Both the DVD and Blu-ray editions of the Brendan Fraser adventure vehicle wisely include the 3-D version (along with the necessary eyewear) because, well, audiences at home like...Tags: Sony Corp., Phil Hartman, Book, Walt Disney, Jules Verne
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Quick clicks
•Psych, with James Roday, Dule Hill and Corbin Bernsen, and Burn Notice starring Jeffrey Donovan, have been renewed by the USA network for a fourth and third season, respectively. The rookie thriller In Plain Sight, starring Mary McCormack as a U.S....Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Celebrity, Jane Krakowski
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Madonna's brother unleashes a new, unauthorized tell-all
Special to NewsdayPop culture is littered with celebrities and their lesser-than siblings. For every Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears, there's an Ashlee, Ali or Jamie Lynn, yearning to prove they're talented, too. In some cases, it's true -- Warren...Tags: Stephen Baldwin, Jessica Simpson, Celebrity, Alec Baldwin, Britney Spears
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'Kit Kittredge: An American Girl'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comIf you're the parent of a preteen girl, you already may be resisting constant entreaties to drive her to Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theatre for a showing of "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl," the first feature film based on Mattel's popular line of American...Tags: Chris O'Donnell, Julia Ormond, Stanley Tucci, Mattel Inc., Movies
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A Treat For Little Girls
![Sweet, old-fashioned and sentimental to a fault, "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" is Nancy Drew with training wheels. It's a moist-eyed children's comedy-drama that dares to ask how much today's kids need to know about the Great Depression, or a Golden Age when all a plucky, smart girl could ever want out of life was "to be a [newspaper] reporter."](http://www.courant.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2008-07/40602543-01150641.jpg)
ORLANDO SENTINELSweet, old-fashioned and sentimental to a fault, "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" is Nancy Drew with training wheels. It's a moist-eyed children's comedy-drama that dares to ask how much today's kids need to know about the Great Depression, or a Golden...Tags: Baby Products, Games, and Toys, History, Wallace Shawn, Stanley Tucci, Movies
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'Kit Kittredge: An American Girl': Cinematic journey back to 1930s sure to please many American girls
Tribune reporterAs someone who does not come into regular contact with girls ages 5 to 12, my personal experience with the "American Girl" phenomenon has been limited. As a sentient human being who happens to work in close proximity to a very large American Girl retail...Tags: Julia Roberts, Chris O'Donnell, Carol Channing, Julia Ormond, Pixar
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'War, Inc.' stars John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei and Ben Kingsley
Tribune criticHere's the opening crawl for "War, Inc.," a mordant unofficial sequel to "Grosse Pointe Blank" reuniting John Cusack with an assassin's gun. "In the 21st century, great corporations will bestride the earth, replacing nations as the true creators of...Tags: National Government, Marisa Tomei, Joseph Heller, Ben Kingsley, Dan Aykroyd
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'War Inc.'
This John Cusack-driven exercise in scorched-earth political comedy is neither as dark nor as timely as intended, and certainly not as funny: Written by Cusack, Mark Leyner and Jeremy Pikser, it takes place in the fictional Turaqistan, where corporate...Tags: Marisa Tomei, Ben Kingsley, Dan Aykroyd, Dick Cheney, Hilary Duff
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What are your siblings doing?
It's remarkable enough that brothers Eli and Peyton Manning are both starting NFL quarterbacks. But now Eli nears pigskin's pinnacle (Super Bowl) one year after his older (and taller) brother was there -- beating the Bears, as you might recall. There are...Tags: Casey Affleck, Wynton Marsalis, Major League Baseball, Celebrity, Super Bowl
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'Sister's Keeper' Recasts Fanning Sisters' Roles
Zap2It.comDakota Fanning and her sister Elle Fanning aren't irreplaceable after all. "Little Miss Sunshine" star Abigail Breslin will step into the younger Fanning's role, while Sofia Vassilieva is in talks to replace Dakota Fanning in "My Sister's Keeper,"...Tags: Dakota Fanning, The White House, Film Festivals, Alec Baldwin, Television
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The reluctant celebrity
Tribune entertainment reporterJoyce Piven remembers John Cusack as a high-schooler playing a charismatic anti-hero in the Piven Theatre Workshop's adaptation of J.D. Salinger's short story "Just Before the War with the Eskimos." Piven, artistic director emeritus of the 35-year-old...Tags: Sony Corp., Music Theater, Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Diseases
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Talk of the town
RedEyeBrunch, pothole and Doomsday, the constantly fluid date when the CTA may or may not raise fares or cut service, are just a few of the words that have become ingrained in Chicago's lexicon. But there are terms within this Chi-alect that are specific to...Tags: Starbucks Corporation, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Transit Authority, U.S. Cellular Field, Kanye West
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