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'The Wire' finale is a cop-out for a once-great show
Sun Television CriticDavid Simon wrote a brilliant finale for The Wire. Unfortunately, it was in 2004 at the end of Season 3 - not the 90-minute final episode of the Baltimore-based drama that will air tonight on HBO. Four years ago, series creator Simon wrote a season-...Tags: Literature, Satellite and Cable Service, Television Industry, Newspaper and Magazine, Murder
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A good character actor stands and delivers truth
SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNEThe greats of my generation, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, were character actors. That is, they were, by standards of a previous day, suitable to play in support of a star, but as they were ethnic, or not traditional matinee-...Tags: Defense, Music Theater, Armed Forces, Goodman Theatre, New York City Police Department
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A good character actor stands and delivers truth
SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNEThe greats of my generation, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, were character actors. That is, they were, by standards of a previous day, suitable to play in support of a star, but as they were ethnic, or not traditional matinee-...Tags: Defense, Music Theater, Armed Forces, Goodman Theatre, New York City Police Department
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Corrections and clarifications, Feb. 16, 2008
*A diagram of Cole Hall on the Northern Illinois campus on Page 1 Friday incorrectly located which of the two theater classrooms was the site of the shootings. The site was the left theater. *In a reminiscence on the Corona Cafe restaurant in Thursday'...Tags: U.S. Energy Corporation, Continental Bank
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Harry Caray gone 10 years? Holy cow
This story contains corrected material, published Feb. 16, 2008. What would Harry Caray think of today's baseball steroid scandal? "I'm a guy who idolizes ballplayers," Caray told me 14 years ago. "So often, the guy who is idolized is not really a...Tags: Major League Baseball, Ceremonies, Society, Riverside County, Lake County (Illinois)
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TV Gal Plays Favorites
Zap2It.comWe know they're not real. Of course when we watch a TV series we know it's make-believe. We know Burke is really not operating with a hand tremor. We know that Grissom and Sara aren't really having a clandestine affair. And we certainly know that Bree...Tags: Sexual Assault, Physiology, Rape, Weaponry, Natural Science
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'This Old Cub'
The documentary "This Old Cub" doesn't wallow in nostalgia in its reverent homage to Ron Santo, the Chicago Cubs' longtime third baseman.
There's some looking back, especially at the heartbreaking season of 1969 when the Cubbies were overtaken in the...Tags: Diseases, Major League Baseball, Wrigley Field, Fairfax County, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia)
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Doing time with cops of NYPD
Sun Television CriticA 28-year-old woman is stabbed in the chest and left for dead in the lobby of her Manhattan apartment. A corpse boiled to a crisp is found at the bottom of a manhole on Fulton Street. A man hangs by his hands from the Henry Hudson Bridge, a slack noose...Tags: Television Industry, Literature, Johns Hopkins Hospital, New York City Police Department, CBS Corp.
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Movie review: 'This Old Cub'
Chicago Tribune Movie Writer3 stars (out of 4) When a loving son makes a documentary about his father, you can forgive him for laying it on a bit thick - especially when his love for his subject, Ron Santo, is shared by an entire city. Jeff Santo's "This Old Cub" is an intimate,...Tags: Lobbying, Major League Baseball, Diseases, Chicago Cubs, Ron Santo
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Giving the Emmys a needed face-lift
Times Staff WriterLike many in Hollywood preparing to celebrate a 55th birthday, there's not-so-subtle pressure on the Emmy Awards to undergo a face-lift, if not an extreme makeover. This year's nominations will be announced Thursday, and the aging statuette still...Tags: Popular Music, Rape, Literature, CEO Pay, Television Industry
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