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Summary: "Crooning" by Frank D. Gilroy
The unnamed scriptwriter who narrates Frank D. Gilroy's Kindle single "Crooning," set in 1958, doesn't think filming a movie in Havana is a very good idea. But producer and want-to-be-star Dick Powell (a fictionalized version of the real-life actor),...
Tags: Chess Playing, Amazon Kindle, Entertainment Events
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Lyle Lovett, Steve Miller, Joan Jett included on Ferguson Center 2013-14 schedule
The Ferguson Center for the Arts Friday unveiled a set of shows stretching from August into May of next year. Big names include Lyle Lovett, Bela Fleck, Taj Mahal, Steve Miller Band, Blues Traveler, Kenny Loggins and Joan Jett. There are other surprises...
Tags: Broadway Theater, Entertainment, Lorrie Morgan, Ferguson Center for the Arts, Arts and Culture
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'The Son' rises with the saga of a Texas family
"Being a writer and a Texan," Larry McMurtry wrote in the late 1960s, "is an amusing fate." What he was addressing was the shift, in the years after World War II, "from the land to the cities" and what he saw as "the dying of … the rural,...Tags: Book, Fiction, Customs and Tradition, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events
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Review: In 'Man of Steel,' Henry Cavill soars over an erratic plot
"I can do things other people can't," the man says with becoming modesty, and can he ever. Cauterize deep wounds with a single glance, leap tall buildings in a single bound, things like that. Those rumors you've been hearing are true: Superman is back...Tags: Kevin Costner, Action (Movie Genre), Ayelet Zurer, Entertainment, Watchmen (movie)
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Anne Frank: remembering her on her birthday
Anne Frank was born June 12, 1929, 84 years ago today. During her short 15 years, she kept a diary and wrote there sorting out her emotions, describing her crushes and despair, her desires and dreams. She kept the diary from 1942 to '44, the two years...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Where the Wild Things Are (movie), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Anne Frank, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
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Sunken Garden Poetry Festival Hosts Strong Lineup
The Hartford CourantTwo Pulitzer Prize winners. A former U.S. poet laureate. President Obama's 2013 Inaugural poet. A "poet of witness" who champions human rights. This year's Sunken Garden Poetry Prize-winner, and students whose "fresh voices" have enlivened state poetry...Tags: Princeton University, Barack Obama, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Arts and Culture, 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie)
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Tonys 2013: Joan Rivers name checks 'Bosom Buddies' on Twitter
Tom Hanks may have lost lead actor in a play, but he has a fan in Joan Rivers. Hanks was considered a front-runner for his performance in "Lucky Guy." Instead, the Tony went to Tracy Letts for "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Letts had...Tags: Netherlands, Music, Entertainment, Twitter, Inc., Entertainment Events
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Tonys 2013: 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike' wins best play
"Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," Christopher Durang's dysfunctional-family dark comedy, was named best play at the 67th Tony Awards, presented Sunday night at Radio City Music Hall. The show stars Durang's longtime muse Sigourney Weaver, along...
Tags: Entertainment, Tony Awards, Clybourne Park (play), Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes
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Column: We're surrendering our civil liberties
It will not be with guns. If ever tyranny overtakes this land of the sometimes free and home of the intermittently brave, it probably won’t, contrary to the fever dreams of gun rights extremists, involve jack-booted government thugs rappelling...Tags: Verizon Communications, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, Google Inc., Personal Weapon Control
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Legendary cartoonist creating statue of Naperville founder
When the Naperville Heritage Society wanted to commission a sculpture of the city's founder, there was little mystery as to who would be asked to design it. Dick Locher, a longtime Naperville resident and legendary cartoonist known for both his Dick...
Tags: Sculpture, Arts, Arts and Culture, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Events
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Power play
The knives are already out. Samantha Power, it is alleged, is an enemy of Israel — this based on comments she made in response to a "thought experiment," comments she subsequently disavowed. She was asked, back in 2002, how her support for liberal...Tags: Executive Branch, Barack Obama, Samantha Power, Israel, Government
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Column: Reporter makes mental health a political issue
I cannot write this the way I want. Doing so would invade the privacy of too many people. But I can’t be silent, either. Last week, you see, President Barack Obama spoke before a conference of mental health advocates at the White House. It is...Tags: Barack Obama, The Miami Herald, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Diabetes, Depression
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