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Letter: Ancient mechanical law supports idea of unconditional equality
As we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, we are reminded that equality is unconditional, something we basically knew from the start. And it wasn't born out of the Great Charter of the Liberties of England, or the Magna Carta; the...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Slavery, Movies, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Abraham Lincoln
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Networking the awards
Sun television criticAfter getting swamped last year by HBO, network television staged a comeback last night at the 57th Annual Emmy Prime Time Awards. The first award of the evening went to Brad Garrett, of CBS' Everybody Loves Raymond, and the last went to the show itself...Tags: Television Industry, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, J.J. Abrams, Hurricane Katrina (2005)
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The Collage Artist
Sun Theater CriticNEW YORK -- August Wilson sits in a scruffy, linoleum-floored eatery in the heart of the theater district holding a sheaf of discount coupons for "Miss Saigon." He's not planning on seeing the show, but he's put the coupons to good use. Neat black...Tags: Organic Chemical Industry, Music Theater, African Americans, Carl Lumbly, Death
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Cinderella of Baltimore
Sun Theater CriticNEW YORK - The elements all are there: A ball gown, a lost glass object, even a fairy godfather. Most of all, this real-life fairy tale has, at its center, a beautiful woman who worked very hard for a very long time before her dream - one she never...Tags: Music Theater, Society, Radio, Martin Short, Death
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Baseball changes color and Oscar notices
Liz Smith"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded!" Yogi Berra once said of a popular watering hole. SPEAKING OF BASEBALL, as we so seldom do here, let's think back to the Academy Awards, which just took place a couple months ago. Quick! Who won what? How...Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Academy Awards, New York University, Tom Hanks, Entertainment Events
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New releases: 'On the Road' seeks a style both poetic, realistic
On the Road Available on VOD beginning Monday Director Walter Salles, screenwriter José Rivera and producer Francis Ford Coppola have given themselves the almost-impossible task of adapting Jack Kerouac's beloved Beat Generation novel "On the Road," a...
Tags: Jack Kerouac, Abraham Lincoln, Francis Ford Coppola, Garrett Hedlund, Steven Spielberg
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Oscars speeches: Honestly sincere, or expertly faked?
Los Angeles looks lush. But as often noted, it is actually an arid wasteland where nothing but artifice and self-interest sprouts naturally. That's the cynical, archetypal reading. For instance, two thirds of the way into Nathanael West's cynical,...
Tags: Lobbying, Ben Affleck, Les Miserables (movie), Daniel Day-Lewis, David O. Russell
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'Lincoln'
Daniel Day-Lewis won virtually every award for best actor -- including his third Oscar -- for his remarkable portrayal of the title president in director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner's superb 2012 drama. The focus is on the end of...Tags: James Spader, Steven Spielberg, Sally Field, Daniel Day-Lewis, Movies
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Oscars winners and nominees 2013: Complete list
Ben Affleck's film "Argo" took the best picture Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards. Other marquee winners were Daniel Day-Lewis for lead actor for “Lincoln,” Jennifer Lawrence for lead actress for “Silver Linings Playbook,” and Ang...
Tags: The Gatekeepers (movie), Searching for Sugar Man (movie), Seth MacFarlane, Les Miserables (movie), Flight (movie)
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Letters to the Editor - March 17
Lincoln most certainly would not be a Democrat To the editor: Screenwriter Tony Kushner, for the movie “Lincoln,” and Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of the book “Team of Rivals,” on which the movie was based, suggested that if...Tags: U.S. Congress, Agriculture, Slavery, Bankruptcy, Abraham Lincoln
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Victory Gardens announces smaller season, Sandra Oh
Citing the need for financial responsibility and a desire to conserve resources for the 40th anniversary season, Victory Gardens Theater artistic director Chay Yew announced Monday that the venerable non-profit will have a 2013-14 subscription season of...
Tags: Victory Gardens Theatre, Bronzeville, Humana Incorporated, Sandra Oh, David Henry Hwang
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Readers share ratings, quibbles
The awards season has run its course. It's always a relief to see it in the rearview mirror. Even the winners feel that way. Many of the award-winners qualifying for very goodness and even greatness fed an ongoing debate about historical fiction on...
Tags: Robert Aldrich, Daniel Day-Lewis, Art Institute of Chicago, Les Miserables (musical), Fiction
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