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'Dancing With the Stars': Ranking the cast
Reality Check...Tags: Dance, America's Got Talent (tv program), Cloris Leachman, Television, Hamburgers
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New Tyler Perry show explores 'grown-folk' relationships
Michael Jai White and Tasha Smith didn’t have much time to rehearse for their roles as a married couple on TBS’ upcoming dramedy “Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse” — they taped one episode per day, whereas most shows...Tags: Tasha Smith, Concerts, Michael Jai White, Television, TBS (tv network)
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Video/Q&A: Chicago native Craig Robinson of 'Peeples'
Apropos of nothing, Craig Robinson is singing R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly.” The Beverly native best known as Darryl Philbin on “The Office” is in the next room prepping for an interview about “Peeples,”...
Tags: Craig Robinson, Nick Offerman, Chicago White Sox, David Alan Grier, Kerry Washington
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'Jack Reacher' review: Take notes, Tyler Perry
*** (out of four) Before learning about the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., I already was disturbed by a scene of “Jack Reacher” in which a sniper sets up five seemingly random people in his sights before killing them. The world only grows more...
Tags: Jack Reacher (movie), Quentin Tarantino, Lee Child, Werner Herzog, Valkyrie (movie)
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Northwestern tackles the career (and controversies) of Tyler Perry
There are no sacred cows on the NBC sitcom "30 Rock." The show happily skewers its own network along with any number of pop-culture phenomena, and last week's episode was no different, with a running joke aimed squarely in the direction of Tyler Perry,...
Tags: The Family That Preys (movie), Minority Groups, Cultural Development, A Christmas Carol (movie, 2009), Bridesmaids (movie)
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'Alex Cross': Nothing original in this origin story ★★
Not that we needed it, and pardon the trace elements of contempt regarding the familiarity of this particular narrative hook, but: Yet another serial killer movie hits theaters this week. In "Alex Cross," Tyler Perry, way, way out of his signature drag...
Tags: PG-13 Rated Movies, Giancarlo Esposito, Rob Cohen, Edward Burns, Murder
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Zero-star 'Alex Cross' review: A thriller that cannot be taken seriously
Zero stars (out of four) Without referencing early 1990s rappers Kris Kross, I see no way to write a less-menacing tagline than the one on the poster for “Alex Cross”: “Don’t ever cross Alex Cross.” This thriller plays like...
Tags: Mark Wahlberg, Rob Cohen, Edward Burns, John C. Reilly, Carmen Ejogo
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Edward Burns returns to his roots
About halfway through writing the script for "The Fitzgerald Family Christmas" (which opens at the Wilmette Theatre next week), Edward Burns says he found himself at a crossroad. "Do I want to make the big, crazy, funny, holly-jolly Christmas Irish family...
Tags: Angelina Jolie, Entourage (tv program), Ben Kingsley, Saving Private Ryan (movie), Louis C.K.
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Q&A: 'People Like Us' star Chris Pine and director/co-writer Alex Kurtzman
You may or may not know that “People Like Us” star Chris Pine auditioned for “Avatar.” It did not go well. “Sometimes you can leave your car in Burbank, Los Angeles, and walk into a conference room and your back is...
Tags: Andie MacDowell, Glenn Close, Harrison Ford, Denzel Washington, Science Fiction (genre)
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Does 'Girls' owe us racial diversity?
American Voices"There are worlds and there are worlds" -- Cornelius Eady There's a lot of talk around the Web about Lena Dunham's new HBO show, "Girls," and its lack of diversity. A significant part of the problem is the ongoing fight to have black America represented...Tags: Seinfeld (tv program), Girls (tv program), Aisha Tyler, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Ta-Nehisi Coates
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'Think Like a Man' review: Funny attacks in a frustratingly reductive battle of the sexes
**1/2 (out of four) After seeing these stereotypes on screen approximately 100 billion times, everyone should be tired of movies that position men as immature, commitment-phobic slackers who need to shape up and women as uptight, long-term planners...
Tags: Regina Hall, Think Like a Man (movie), Jerry Ferrara, Michael Ealy, Gabrielle Union
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Jonah Goldberg: Obama and the shifting ground of race
![Princeton's Cornel West, one of the most famous black intellectuals in America, says that President Obama is afraid of "free black men." Because of Obama's atypical upbringing, West says, "when he meets these independent black folk who have a history of slavery, Jim Crow, Jane Crow [sic] and so on, he is very apprehensive. He has a certain rootlessness, a de-racination."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-05/61944876-27175601.jpg "Princeton's Cornel West, one of the most famous black intellectuals in America, says that President Obama is afraid of \"free black men.\" Because of Obama's atypical upbringing, West says, \"when he meets these independent black folk who have a history of slavery, Jim Crow, Jane Crow [sic] and so on, he is very apprehensive. He has a certain rootlessness, a de-racination.\"")
Princeton's Cornel West, one of the most famous black intellectuals in America, says that President Obama is afraid of "free black men." Because of Obama's atypical upbringing, West says, "when he meets these independent black folk who have a history of...Tags: NAACP, Racism, White House, Janeane Garofalo, Republican Party
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