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Back in action
Sun Movie CriticIn Raiders of the Lost Ark, Karen Allen created a female action hero who functions as a fantasy figure for both sexes. As the owner-operator of a Himalayan saloon and the daughter of Indiana Jones' mentor, Marion Ravenwood does it all. She knows how to...Tags: Harrison Ford, John Landis, Indiana Jones, Jerzy Grotowski, Kate Capshaw
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Opera Theater, Mozart get serious
Tribune criticWith its 2008 spring season only seven weeks away, Chicago Opera Theater isn't wasting any time announcing the three operas it is to present for its 35th anniversary season in 2009. General director Brian Dickie will continue the company tradition of...Tags: Music Theater, Classical Music, Music Industry
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If gloom is the game, Beckett is the champ
TRIBUNE CRITICThe arts of late seem to be continually conjuring up that great T.S. Eliot ending: "Tenants of the house, thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season." Consider the titles of two leading contenders in this year's Oscar race: "No Country for Old Men" and...Tags: Trinity College, Connecticut, Game Playing, Colleges and Universities, Navy Pier, Hunting
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Best films for a vicarious voyage
Special to The TimesSometimes, when winter lingers in your bones, you probably wish you could get out of Dodge. You long to fly to distant places for great, soul-stirring adventures and palate-pleasing meals bursting with foreign flavors. But how can you travel without plane...Tags: Dian Fossey, Petroleum Industry, Animals, Culture, Peter O'Toole
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Excitement marks this season's stage productions
Tribune theater criticIf you know and love the Chicago theater, you'll doubtless be expecting a lot of interesting new shows in the upcoming winter and spring seasons. Why should this year be any different? But peruse the following -- woefully incomplete -- list of 10 of the...Tags: Music Theater, Lake Shore Drive, Glencoe, Skokie, Horton Foote
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Sweeney Todd
Fear not, Sondheim fans: John Doyle's actor-musician revival of "Sweeney Todd" is as juicy and satisfying as Hal Prince's 1979 spectacular.
For those unfamiliar with Stephen Sondheim's gothic, murder-themed musical, it tells the tale of a barber who...Tags: Murder, Windham (Windham, Connecticut), John Doyle
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Dogma of dehumanization
STAFF WRITEREver since President George W. Bush described America's response to 9/11 as a "crusade," sensitive church-vs.-state antennae have been alerted to the peril of perceiving the war on Muslim terrorists as an extension of the Christian holy wars. But Jean-...Tags: Abusive Behavior, September 11, 2001 Attacks, George Bush, Government, Civil Unrest
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Movie review: 'Genesis'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) Almost 10 years ago, French documentarians Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou knocked the Cannes Film Festival for an entomological loop with their "Microcosmos," an amazing film on a seemingly mundane subject: the world of bugs...Tags: Academy Awards, Animals, Film Festivals, Fishing, Cannes Film Festival
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Unlikely soul mates find each other in `Berlin '45'
Special to the TribuneMarking 25 years of collaboration with Victory Gardens Theater, prolific playwright Jeffrey Sweet's latest drama, "Berlin '45," opens Monday. Directed by Calvin MacLean, this taut love story set in the ruins of Hitler's Germany charts the unlikely...Tags: Popular Music, Victory Gardens Theatre, Family, Adolf Hitler, Literature
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'Cet Amour-là'
Times Staff WriterIn 1975, when French writer Marguerite Duras attended a university screening of "India Song," one of 19 daunting experimental films she directed, a student, Yann Andréa Lemée, sat through it to ask for her autograph and permission to write to her. For the...Tags: Marguerite Duras, Tony Richardson, Beverly Hills, Jeanne Moreau
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