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Feast your eyes on this: Snacks and the arts
In the upper right-hand corner of certain pages in my copy of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Notes From Underground" (1864), you will find dime-size stains of a curious orange-yellow hue. The provenance of this tattoo is unmistakable: Cheetos. The volume thus...Tags: Tom Jones, University of Chicago, Albert Finney, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Henry Fielding
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'Happy-Go-Lucky' could extend filmmaker Leigh's Oscar touch for lead actress Hawkins
AP Movie WriterTORONTO (AP) _ Director Mike Leigh has a knack for putting relatively unknown British actresses into Academy Awards contention, as he did with "Secrets & Lies" and "Vera Drake." His latest find is Sally Hawkins, who co-starred in "Vera Drake" and Leigh's...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Cinema Industry, Celebrity, Film Festivals, Woody Allen
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Joffrey, Hubbard blend old and new
Special to the Chicago TribuneThe next few weeks of dance will combine works by established masters with original pieces by rising stars. In separate fall outings, both the Joffrey Ballet and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago are blending old and new, a tried-and-true programming recipe....Tags: Philip Glass, Jerome Robbins, Dancing, Joffrey Ballet, Dance
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Reference Points
Novel Destinations Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West National Geographic [$25] To many, heaven means combining travel with reading. The authors of this book, Shannon McKenna Schmidt and Joni Rendon, are two...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Key West, Salinas
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'Speech & Debate' playwright Stephen Karam remains youthful
Special to The TimesSTEPHEN KARAM was not like other teenagers. For this Scranton, Pa., native, "play" didn't mean pickup basketball or keg parties -- it referred to one-acts he'd write and mail off to publishers and contests listed in the Dramatists Sourcebook. "What...Tags: Common, Teen-agers, Celebrity, People, Aaron Copland
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"I Love You Because" draws little admiration
steve.parks@newsday.comA generation for whom matches are made in cyberspace may regard "I Love You Because" as a cute boy-meets-girl musical comedy. For those of us who recall a time when girls waited by the phone for a guy to call and ask for a date, "Because" is enough to...Tags: Long Island, New York University
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Choreographer Edwaard Liang explores women's roles with 'Age of Innocence'
Special to the Chicago TribuneEdwaard Liang was born in Taiwan, studied ballet growing up in California, danced in New York and first dabbled in choreography in Holland. The 33-year-old mostly retired dancer, nothing if not international, also boasts stints with some of the most...Tags: Dancing, Family, Joffrey Ballet, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Dance
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Author Jay McInerney on 'Gossip Girl' season debut
verne.gay@newsday.comTHE SHOW "Gossip Girl," WPIX/11 at 8 tonight REASON TO WATCH Season 2 begins. ('Nuff said.) OK, here's another reason. Tonight features effective cameos by author Jay McInerney and real-life society doyenne Tinsley Mortimer. CATCHING UP Poor...Tags: Gossip Girl, Chace Crawford, Michelle Trachtenberg, Blake Lively, Leighton Meester
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'Brideshead' is a soapy remake of 1982 miniseries
Sun movie critic(C) Although movie critics like to mock multipart British literary adaptations for being slavishly reverential to their sources, let's just admit that at their best they provide actors with greater opportunities to develop complex characters than any...Tags: Steve Martin, New York Times, Music Theater, Roman Polanski, Emma Thompson
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Past selections
Spring 2008: "The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler. Fall 2007: "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller Spring 2007: "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin Fall 2006: "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri Spring 2006: "One Day in the Life of...Tags: Elie Wiesel, Arthur Miller, Willa Cather, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry
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'Mummy' Actress Engaged
Zap2It.comDespite playing a wife in many films, Maria Bello hasn't understood the appeal of matrimony until recently. The "Mummy" actress and her boyfriend Bryn Mooser have become engaged, reports People. The engagement was announced in Bello's hometown...Tags: Clubs and Associations, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Celebrity, Maria Bello, Unions
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One Book pick has 'The Right Stuff'
Chicago Tribune reporter"The Right Stuff" by author-journalist Tom Wolfe is the 15th selection of the "One Book, One Chicago" citywide book club series, library officials announced at a news conference Thursday afternoon. The movie version of the book will also be featured in...Tags: Elie Wiesel, Chicago Public Library, Grant Park, Clubs and Associations, Willa Cather
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