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Give this page a little time to load. • Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 3, 2013 at 6:30 EST. • Price tag: $3.5 million for 30 seconds; $5 million for placement before kickoff. • A detailed article by…
I've been known to say that in movies, I prefer b&w to color. A b&w film adds by subtracting: The world is in color, so we get that free. B&W steps in and imposes another dimension, separating the content from…
Great Movie / Roger Ebert / June 4, 2006 There live not three good men unhanged in England. And one of them is fat and grows old. How can it be that there is an Orson Welles masterpiece that remains…
God's Angry Man, Part One God's Angry Man, Part Two God's Angry Man, Part Three God's Angry Man, Part Four God's Angry Man, Part Five God's Angry Man, Part Six The Ballad of Mean Gene Scott Here is Dr. Gene…
Click here to enter this week's contest. A group of my losing entries, plus my one Winner, and the entry the cartoon editor said online that he liked but it didn't quite clear the bar on New Yorker's taste standards.
My good Sun-Times pal from the 1970s at the Chicago Sun-Times, Cynthia Dagnal, wrote me today: "A friend in London sent me this, obituary from the London indpendent and I was stunned to see that Jeni Le Gon attended the…
And yet, all the same, there is much to be said for Simon's words. I understand where he's coming from. I'm not in sympathy with where he's going. The goal, I suspect, is to encompass the whole range of good…
"Fruitvale" is the hands-down champ at Sundance 2013, and its 26-year-old director, Ryan Coogler, is the toast of the town. It's based on the story of Oscar Grant, a young black man shot in the back by Oakland transportation police…
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