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Portia de Rossi: 'I wonder how many calories I'm burning by sobbing'
The SkinnyMy first post for The Skinny was about Portia de Rossi's new memoir, "Unbearable Lightness," but I wrote that before it had been released and I'd read it. This is the full quotation from which the headline above is derived.......Tags: Minority Groups, Kathy Griffin, Portia de Rossi, Gays and Lesbians
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"Prison Break" Gone Soon?
The TV ZoneYeah, that's Wentworth Miller, at the end of season three, looking to the future, which now seems very very tenuous. The big headline in a Hollywood Reporter story this morning is that "Prison Break" is over, and if you......Tags: National Football League, Ugly Betty (tv program), 20 (tv program), Smallville (tv program), Life on Mars (tv program)
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"Prison Break:" It's Over
The TV ZoneWell, that, as we say, is that: "Prison Break" will end in May, forever, while the final episodes will begin to air on Friday, April 17. Fox announced this minutes ago at the TV Critics tour out in Universal......Tags: Universal City, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons
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Comment of the Week
Dining@LargeWe had several comments this week that deserved further discussion, and I may make them separate entries for that very purpose. But Laura Lee's refutation of jl's contention that pomegranates, garlic and apples aren't superfoods was so compelling I had......Tags: Garlic
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'Shining' students dissect object of their obsession in 'Room 237' ★★★
We are nothing without our obsessions, and Rodney Ascher's "This American Life"-ish documentary "Room 237" intertwines the obsessive, often risible theories of five very big fans of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining." Take it one of two ways. One: It's a...
Tags: Baking Powder, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining (movie), Jack Nicholson, Room 237 (movie)
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Tony-winning set designer Todd Rosenthal wows again at Steppenwolf
"Whoa." That's what the guy who sat behind me said as I settled into a matinee performance of "The Motherf***er With the Hat" at the Steppenwolf Theatre recently: "Whoa, will you look at that? That is something. That is large. I wonder what that'll do?...
Tags: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie), Bruce Norris, Willem Dafoe, Entertainment, Clybourne Park (play)
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An artist at war with himself? Lucas Neff reveals much in 'Last Duck'
Lucas Neff, a born-and-raised Chicago actor, was fortunate enough to snag a leading role in a popular TV sitcom, "Raising Hope" on the Fox network. He plays a lovable but generally clueless young man, a role that, in the great scheme of the...
Tags: Raising Hope (tv program), Arts and Culture, Lucas Neff, Celebrities, Entertainment
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'Room 237' review: A really good movie about a really dense movie
***1/2 (out of four) Perhaps you won’t buy every theory in “Room 237,” a documentary collecting several extensive analyses of Stanley Kubrick’s take on Stephen King’s “The Shining”—a movie no one’s...
Tags: Stanley Kubrick, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Movies, Entertainment
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Bookshelves don't lie
Until recently I owned just two books that were composed of little else but pictures of people's bookshelves. Not nearly enough. One book I received last year for Christmas, a compendium of pictures of author's bookshelves, a sort of literary...
Tags: Pornography, Authors, Newspaper and Magazine, Judd Apatow, Chicago Tribune
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Man About Town: City life driving you crazy? Just say neigh.
I wrestle with my demons just like everybody else, addicted as I am to Mariel Hemingway movies and those little "fun-sized" Snickers bars, of which several trillion are floating around in these weeks after Halloween. Airlift them to Cuba. Put them in...
Tags: Religion and Belief, NASCAR, Mariel Hemingway, The Book of Mormon (musical), Charlie Sheen
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A woman becomes a battlefield nurse
"The Walnut Tree" by Charles Todd, William Morrow, 256 pages, $16.99.. July 1914, France. Lady Elspeth Douglas lives in England. She is visiting Madeleine Villard, a former classmate who lives in Paris. Elspeth has always had a crush on Madeleine's...Tags: Germany, Nursing, Literature, Arts and Culture, Halloween
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Dethrone homecoming royalty tradition
Because the good-looking, well-liked kids crave even more validation than they get simply by walking through the halls, many high schools hold elections about this time every fall to name a homecoming king and queen. Some students take this ritual very...Tags: Local Elections, St. Louis, Elections, Politics, Social Sciences
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