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Dining@LargeGuest poster Owl Meat has come up with one of those topics I wish I had thought of first. I should ask all of you to post every example of a food product placement on a TV show you notice in the next week.......Tags: NBC (tv network), 30 Rock (tv program), Getty Images Inc., Foods and Beverages, Alcoholic Beverages
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'House I Live In' explores war on drugs and its toll on America ★★★
Taking on a hellacious societal problem, a documentary filmmaker benefits from finding a narrow path leading to the heart of that problem — a specific angle, an image, a detail, that opens up to the wider world and a host of provocations. Eugene...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Richard Nixon, Cocaine, Heroin, Methamphetamine (drug)
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'Slow moving holocaust' keeps prisons full
The first thing you notice about the 1905 mug shot of Laura Scott is her Sunday-go-to-meeting hat, large with wayward bows. Then, you take in the information surrounding the photograph that reveals her physical measurements and describes her as a 40-year-...
Tags: Cocaine, Prisons, U.S. Congress, Criminals, Rogers Park
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The boldness and brilliance of one-star reviews on Amazon.com
A couple of weeks ago at a Tribune-hosted cocktail party in the Loop, I found myself in a conversation with novelist Richard Ford. I was wearing the baseball hat I'm wearing in the photo that runs with this column, and from the corner of my eye I...
Tags: New York Observer, Netflix Inc., Bradley Cooper, Amazon.com Inc., Great Expectations (movie)
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Leave liberal Hollywood to the liberals
"We need to buy a movie studio." Amid the umpteen conferences, panels, meetings and informal conversations in the wake of the presidential election, this idea has been a near constant among conservatives who feel like the country is slipping through...
Tags: Abortion Issue, Norman Lear, Avatar (movie), Media Industry, All in the Family (tv program)
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Goldberg: Leave liberal Hollywood to the liberals
"We need to buy a movie studio." Amid the conferences, panels, meetings and informal conversations in the wake of the presidential election, this idea has been a near constant among conservatives who feel like the country is slipping through their...
Tags: Abortion Issue, Norman Lear, Avatar (movie), All in the Family (tv program) , Abortion
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A Super Bowl victory that was Baltimore to the bone
With a parade on Tuesday, the city will celebrate a world championship that was Baltimore to the bone — perfectly imperfect, an overachievement by an underdog and a surprise to sneering outsiders. "I tell you what, we don't make it easy," said...
Tags: San Francisco 49ers, Football, Baltimore Orioles, Super Bowl, John Harbaugh
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Movie awards: Unusual joins usual
More cinema awards. The Los Angeles Film Critics Circle has a reputation for sometimes picking unusual choices. This year, the critics honored "Amour" (picture and female actor Emmanuelle Riva), "The Master" (director P.T. Anderson, actors Joaquin...
Tags: BBC, Mad Men (tv program), Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), The New York Times, Lincoln (movie, 2012)
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When movies feel like TV
Last month after a screening, even as the lights came up in the theater, I could feel "Zero Dark Thirty" fading, its images and impact already softening in my head. No, no, wait: not fading — mingling. If our cultural experiences rub shoulders at...
Tags: Game of Thrones (tv program), Boss (tv program), Shameless (tv program), Mel Gibson, Tribeca
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Newton: A new voice atop L.A.'s teachers union
Warren Fletcher wrapped up his work three weeks ago as an English teacher at City of Angels and moved over to the headquarters of United Teachers Los Angeles, where he is the union's new president. He missed his first negotiating session because he had to...Tags: Regional Authority, Elections, William F. Buckley, Antonio Villaraigosa, Unions
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Isn't it time for a TV show about a South Side political dynasty?
Now that the elections are over, what's good on TV? There are many fine and steamy political dramas set in Chicago. "The Good Wife" and "Boss" are two of my favorites. Yet these shows, like so many others, revolve around white characters. If the national...
Tags: Boss (tv program), Chris Christie, Zoe Saldana, Robert De Niro, Chicago Tribune
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Daum: Confessions of a TV couch potato
I recently attended a lecture by a distinguished man of letters. A poet, novelist, playwright and literary critic, this man also edits journals, directs literary festivals, collaborates on documentary projects, teaches full time at a university and is...
Tags: Battlestar Galactica (tv program), Netflix Inc., Potatoes, Jersey Shore (tv program), Downton Abbey (tv program)
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