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Hubbard Street spices up winter with comedy, twists
Special to the TribuneThese are uncertain, maybe calamitous times, so by all means send in the clowns—put "La Boheme" on hold for "A Night at the Opera" instead. "A Night at the Dance" would be a fine title for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's program at the Harris...Tags: Classical Music, Millennium Park, Jim Vincent, Dance, Dancing
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Not Shaken, Not Stirred, Just Bewildered
In the summer of 1994, just months shy of my 40th birthday, I walked out of the movie "Speed" with a group of friends, among them the esteemed lawyer Lewis K. Wise. "You know what I liked most about that movie?" Lew began. "I was never in any doubt as to...Tags: Tom Hanks, Dennis Hopper, Keanu Reeves, Colin McEnroe, Henry James
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Tricky shtick: Nixon film portryals
Tribune criticRichard M. Nixon adored the movies. He walked out of "West Side Story," which he dismissed as "propaganda," but he revered John Ford, kept up with the New Hollywood experiments, including Robert Altman's "The Long Goodbye," and screened hundreds of...Tags: David Frost, Ron Howard, Celebrity, Film Festivals, Movies
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'Godot': a production in search of more polish
I waited for Godot. Unfortunately, a chunk of the audience did not. Granted, I was attending the final dress rehearsal, which was sponsored by Free Fall Baltimore, in which ticket holders were admitted for no charge. Audience members had no financial...Tags: Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Theater, William Shakespeare, Jerry Seinfeld
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'Happy Days -- A New Musical'
Richie, Joanie, Potsie, Chachi, the Fonz. For television viewers of a certain age, the characters of "Happy Days -- A New Musical" will need no introduction. Like old friends, they are instantly recognizable and comforting -- our ageless tour guides...Tags: Music Theater, Music, Movies, Wrestling, Garry Marshall
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'Holding Pattern' by Jeffery Renard Allen
Holding Pattern
Stories
Jeffery Renard Allen
Graywolf: 230 pp., $15 paper
THE FINAL story in Jeffery Renard Allen's new collection, "Holding Pattern," begins with a shower of pennies falling from the sky. The image is arresting; the penny rain...Tags: New York, Book, Los Angeles
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Abandoned project doesn't fit in with Eagle Rock's progress
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTo those who live in the hills above Eagle Rock -- iconoclasts and eccentrics, many of them artists and "day sleepers" and people who drop Samuel Beckett lines casually into conversation -- the grassy lot at the end of the main drag was never much of a...Tags: Los Feliz, Music Industry, Industrial Accidents, Government, Colorado
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Top 10 moments to remember in the Broadway season
linda.winer@newsday.comProducers of tonight's Tony Award telecast (8-11 p.m. on CBS/2) are planning, somehow, to sell Broadway with scenes from 13 musicals - including the two biggies, "The Little Mermaid" and "Young Frankenstein," which got no major nominations and,...Tags: Broadway, Music Theater, Harold Pinter, Music, Kevin Kline
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Pictures speak 'A Thousand Words'
There's painting, sculpture and a bunch of short plays. Also a bar, fair trade chocolate and a big bowl of Chex Mix. Now playing at Art Share L.A., "A Thousand Words" is an inviting, if erratic, conversation between nine writers and nine downtown artists....Tags: James Joyce, Crimes, Steve Allen, Max Ernst, Diseases
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Movie Review: Kabluey - 5 stars out of 5
Sentinel Movie CriticThe central image of Kabluey is a massive, pointless, impractical foam-rubber mascot suit, the logo for a failing Internet company, a logo that looks suspiciously like the old "AOL man." In the hands of writer-director-star Scott Prendergast, he.. .. ....Tags: Lisa Kudrow, Adam Sandler, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Texas, Teri Garr
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'First Love' is austere but wins you over
Special to The TimesA young man in a hoodie and sneakers steps into a square of light and speaks: "I associate, rightly or wrongly, my marriage with the death of my father. . . . That other links exist, on other planes, between these two affairs, is not impossible." No,...Tags: Miles Davis, Theater, George Carlin
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The summer serendipity of 'blanc fiction'
"The dog days of summer" is an expression that resonates with extra fervor in this particular year. Gas prices are high and the price of groceries seems to climb a few extra cents with each visit to the store. Mortgage is to foreclosure what bread is to...Tags: NBC, Police, Books and Magazines, The Office (tv program)
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