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"Hair": Reviving The Revolution
Courant Staff WriterJames Rado sits in the lobby of New York's Public Theater, the building where the musical "Hair" began its journey. The "American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" moved in 1968 from off-Broadway's Public to Broadway's Biltmore, where it played for 1,750...Tags: Whitney Museum, Broadway, Music Theater, George H.W. Bush, Yale Repertory Theatre
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NOW PLAYING: A guide to local art house and second-run theaters
NOW PLAYING •indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives. ♦indicates a film that is not reviewed, but of interest. BACinema Beverly Arts Center 2407 W. 111th St. 773-445-3838 beverlyartcenter.org •'Son of Rambow' ***...Tags: David Lynch, Fred Astaire, Bank of America Corp., Luchino Visconti, Music Box Theatre
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Shows to watch
'The 2008 Hero Awards' 7 p.m., WPWR-Ch. 50 With all the awards given out for acting, singing and other relatively superficial pursuits, the idea behind this special is certainly refreshing. It's got star power, to be sure, but philanthropic celebrities...Tags: Shirley Jones, Yul Brynner, Emergency Planning, Rex Harrison, Dean Cain
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Friday's Highlights
SERIES Bird brain: An African gray parrot demonstrates an ability to master vocabulary as well as identify shapes, colors and objects on "Extraordinary Animals" (9:30 p.m. Animal Planet). SPECIALS R&B: "Tom Reed's for Members Only TV" profiles Rock and...Tags: Shirley Jones, CBS Corp., Sigourney Weaver, Toronto Blue Jays, David Duchovny
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A decade later, 'Best Little Town' still fits Bayfield to a T
Tribune staff reporterThere are still no traffic lights. In fact, there are still no traffic lights in the entire county. There's still no McDonald's, no Wal-Mart. The lake still sparkles, the beaches still squeak, the restaurants still serve those menacing whitefish livers."...Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Diseases, Willie Nelson, Vehicles, Arlo Guthrie
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A decade later, 'Best Little Town' still fits Bayfield, Wisconsin
Chicago Tribune staff reporterThere are still no traffic lights. In fact, there are still no traffic lights in the entire county. There's still no McDonald's, no Wal-Mart. The lake still sparkles, the beaches still squeak, the restaurants still serve those menacing whitefish livers....Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Diseases, Willie Nelson, Vehicles, Arlo Guthrie
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True children of the theater
Sun StaffOne in a series of occasional articles It's all so familiar, so old-fashioned: The dim church hall with its utilitarian stage and acres of beige linoleum. The squeak of folding chairs, the melodies from the workhorse of a piano. Except for the flip-...Tags: Barbara Cook, Govans, Harry Potter
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Theater review, 'I Do I Do' at Drury Lane
Tribune arts reporterTwo years after the great Broadway producer David Merrick took the two-person musical "I Do I Do" to Broadway, the Great White Way finally discovered the rock music, nudity and political consciousness of "Hair." But you won't see any roots of modernity in...Tags: Tom Jones, Mary Martin, Broadway, Music Theater, Music Industry
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Funnyman Buddy Hackett dies at 78
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBuddy Hackett, who broke into comedy as a young waiter-performer in New York's Catskill Mountains and went on to achieve iconic status as a raunchy nightclub performer and rubber-faced clown in movies including "The Music Man" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad,...Tags: Stanley Kramer, Broadway, CBS Corp., Defense, Lou Costello
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Top winners from 1982
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels in TOOTSIE Mirage/Punch Production; Columbia Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi in GANDHI Indo-British Film Production; Columbia Jack Lemmon as...Tags: Jessica Lange, Meryl Streep, Frances Farmer, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Newman
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