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Is It Funny Yet? Second City Enters the Obama Eranew
Hope versus fear, optimism versus skepticism -- that's the theme of Second City's smart, often hilarious response to this historic moment, America: All Better!
Chicago Reader |
Albert Williams |
12-22-2008 |
Theater
'Brideshead Revisited' Gets Refocused for the Big Screennew
It's taken more than 60 years to bring Evelyn Waugh's best-known novel to the big screen. The 133-minute feature isn’t entirely faithful to the book's details and expresses more ambivalence about religion than Waugh might have wished, but it captures the theme of moral responsibility in an evenhanded way that should speak to believers and nonbelievers alike.
Chicago Reader |
Albert Williams |
07-28-2008 |
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