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‘Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’: Checking Out
Evanston RoundTable, June 6, 2012 This seems to be the alta cocker feel-good movie of the year. A passel of British geezers on a tight budget move to a colorful
Why We Ride
Letter sent to sponsors after the 500-mile AIDS fundraising bike ride in 2002. There was a small sign above the tent with the jugs of Gatorade and boxes of Power
A Revealing Look Under the Finery of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
Chicago Sun-Times, December 14, 1980 The faded signs, the old-fashioned grocery and soda fountain and the muted grays and browns of a three-story walkup are all part of the setting
Review of “Moneyball”
Evanston Roundtable, Oct. 11, 2011 There’s a key scene near the end of “Moneyball” when Oakland Athletics’ general manager Billy Beane (played with great energy and charm by Brad Pitt)
Review of “Hugo” and “The Artist”
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 5, 2012 Silent movies all but disappeared 80 years ago, replaced not by something better, but by something newer, the talkies. Now it seems we’re talked out.
Review of “Contagion”
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 27, 2011 Steven Soderbergh’s movie “Contagion” manages to do for global pandemics what porn does for sex: make it look phony. Not that there aren’t the requisite
Review of J. Edgar
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 22, 2011 He built one of the nation’s most important law-enforcement agencies, routed the Bolsheviks and anarchists in the 1920s, jailed scores of gun-toting mobsters in the
Profile: Gene Bell, FAAM ‘Commissioner For Life,’ Has Helped Thousands of Kids
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 27, 2011 In 1968, the City cut back its middle school athletic program, and in response a handful of African American community leaders formed an after-school sports
Profile of Guerra Freitas
Evanston RoundTable, January 19, 2012 He was born in war, suffered grievously during war, is even named for war. Now Guerra Freitas, who has lived in south Evanston since 1998,