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Attorney General Holder orders more episodes of 'The Wire'
The Obama administration has some very pressing matters on its hands: Three overseas wars, an economy struggling to recover and a massive budget shortfall.
So, what are administration officials spending their time doing? Why, ordering more episodes of...Tags: Eric Holder, David Simon, Ed Burns, Sonja Sohn, Movies
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Actors from HBO's 'The Wire' take part in drug panel
Z on TVWendell Pierce, Sonja Sohn and Jim True-Frost (aka Bunk, Kima and Prez) participated in a Justice Department panel Tuesday on drug abuse, families and at-risk children. It is part of an initiative launched by Attorney General Eric Holder and announced... -
Schools Are a Crime on 'The Wire'
Zap2It.comAfter 20 years as a Baltimore homicide detective, Ed Burns took on a second career, teaching social studies for seven years in the same city where he used to carry a badge. Now in his latest incarnation, as a writer and producer for HBO's Baltimore-...Tags: Martin O'Malley, David Simon, Dominic West, Drug Trafficking, Regional Authority
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Recent openings: 'Countess Maritza,' 'A Thousand Clowns,' 'Being Beautiful'
Special to the TribuneThe spun-sugar story of a wealthy woman who pretends to be engaged in order to escape her fortune-hunting suitors, "Countess Maritza" is a gem of a romantic operetta. Its creator, Hungarian composer Emmerich Kalman, crammed it full of Strauss-quality...Tags: Sarah Jessica Parker, Steppenwolf Theatre, Theater, Comedy (genre), Gays and Lesbians
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Theater review, 'David Copperfield' at Steppenwolf
Tribune Chief Critic"David Copperfield"? No, not the magician, but the novel, by Charles Dickens, newly adapted for the stage and now in its premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre, a troupe not usually associated with productions of 19th Century English literature....Tags: Graham Greene, Steppenwolf Theatre, DePaul University, Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character)
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Theater review, 'I Just Stopped By To See The Man' at Steppenwolf Theatre
With its undertow of racial and class-based division, the thorny question of just who, exactly, can claim the right to sing the blues, has been around pretty much since Mississippi blues legend Son House first got drunk and startling wailing more than...Tags: Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Rolling Stones (music group), Eric Clapton, England
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Recent openings: 'I Just Stopped By to See the Man' and 'A Christmas Carol'
Special to the TribuneMusic, to many, is a mystery. The pleasure derived from listening to music is hard to articulate. And the musicians—in their minds or through their instruments—can compound that mystery. It is the unknown fate of a music legend that haunts Stephen...Tags: Holidays, Folklore and Mythology, Religious Festivals, Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character)
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'Mail Order Wife,' 'Dot the I' and 'Off the Map'
Times Staff WriterA wickedly funny satire about a lonely slob from Queens, the Burmese bride he orders from a catalog and the documentary filmmaker who chronicles the debacle before luring her away, "Mail Order Wife" sends up everyone in its circuitous path — self-...Tags: Charlie Cox, Campbell Scott, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Santa Monica, Stanley Tucci
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Movie review: 'Off the Map'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC3½ stars (out of 4) The mysterious alchemy of art—how it's born and how it survives its creators—is the central subject of actor-director Campbell Scott's "Off the Map," a lovely film, shot near D.H. Lawrence's old ranch near Taos, N.M., which tells...Tags: Chicago International Film Festival, Martin Scorsese, Hal Ashby, Campbell Scott, D.H. Lawrence
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