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In 'Four Christmases,' Seth Gordon explores a season's gratings
To some, it might seem a bit of a stretch for the director of an odd and obscure documentary about the '80s arcade game Donkey Kong to become the man in charge of the big-budget holiday-season comedy " Four Christmases," starring Vince Vaughn and Reese...Tags: Bruce Willis, Evanston, Video Games, Cinema Industry, Trips and Vacations
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Where it all began for Judd Apatow and Wes Anderson
The coincidental releases this week of a pair of cult staples -- "Freaks and Geeks" (in a deluxe "yearbook" set) and "Bottle Rocket" (in a Criterion edition) -- make for an intriguing compare-and-contrast exercise. Since these early efforts, Judd Apatow...Tags: Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson, Seth Rogen, Cults and Sects, Judd Apatow
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Employee theft is growing & costly
The Virginia GazetteWith the recession, experts expect employee theft to rise. John Hughes, a Williamsburg area forensic accountant for Audit Services of Virginia, took questions about embezzlement and how to prevent it. How bad is employee theft? According to the...Tags: Theft, Employees, Virginia, Crimes, Police
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M83's teen movie inspiration
Special to the TribuneThe North Shore suburb of Shermer isn't mentioned in Chicago travel guides. That's because it's the fictional setting that filmmaker John Hughes used for his classic teen movies. But Ferris Bueller's hometown is definitely on the dream itinerary of French...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Music, David Lynch, Music Industry, Molly Ringwald
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Action in 'Twilight' has no fangs
You want your first crush to last" could have been the theme song for Twilight, the movie version of Stephenie Meyer's mammoth best-seller about a high school junior, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), who moves from her mother's place in arid Phoenix to her...Tags: Twilight (movie), Christopher Reeve, Vampires, Folklore and Mythology, Music
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Editorial feedback
Public pensions • On the surface, I agree with the Oct. 24 editorial, "Retirement reality: A fix is long overdue," but there is an insinuation that state employees are having a free ride. I would point out that any time we have received a raise (I have 18...Tags: Timothy M. Kaine, Civil and Public Service, Consumer Confidence, Private Health Care, Economy
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Suggs: 'I want to be here'
About this series: Each Wednesday we'll bring you a Q&A with a Ravens player to help you learn a little more about the team. The third part of this series is an interview with linebacker Terrell Suggs, whose two sacks against the Cleveland Browns on...Tags: Walter Jones, Willie Roaf, Colleges and Universities, Jonathan Ogden, Kansas City Chiefs
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Release of the Week: 'Drillbit Taylor'
Courant Staff WriterThis is one tired movie. Owen Wilson plays his usual laconic surfer dude in the film about nerdy high school freshmen looking for a bodyguard. There's nothing fresh in this script from Kristofor Brown and Seth Rogen which is disappointing considering...Tags: Owen Wilson, Paramount, Matt Dillon, Adam Baldwin, Movies
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'The Secret Life of the American Teenager'
Times Television CriticWhat with the infamous teen pregnancies of Gloucester, Mass., and tween queen Jamie Lynn Spears having her baby, and the success of last year's “Juno,” a TV series about a pregnant high school freshman should not come as a shock. Television...Tags: Jean-Luc Godard, Television, Reproduction, Medical Specialization, Music
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'In Heat,' 'The Next Big Thing,' 'Rabbit Hole'
The dynamics of human attraction can be thoroughly mystifying. "What does she see in him?" we ask ourselves. "How do they stay together?" Yet unlikely as any relationship might seem, it is, on some level, instinctive. Perhaps inevitable.
"In Heat" offers...Tags: Santa Monica, Theater, Music, Mike Flanagan, Los Angeles
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Looking for reality, finding 'The Breakfast Club'
Chicago Tribune critic"American Teen" is as close to fraudulent as a documentary can get and still be worth seeing. No doubt director Nanette Burstein went at this project with an open mind and an open heart, along with an open lens and an open mike. Burstein spent the 2005-...Tags: Evanston, Indiana, Health and Safety at School, High Schools, Paramount
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