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Lolo Jones still a winner

Lolo Jones is more famous for her story than she is for her feats on the track. While the track star has detractors on Twitter, she’ll likely be famous long after the Olympic flame is extinguished.

Mars mission needs star power

This latest mission is truly amazing, but the reality of an unmanned journey to Mars in 2012 is relatively sedate compared to Hollywood’s vision of the Red Planet.

Cupcake ATM breaks down

Just a couple of days after opening to great fanfare and media hype, the Sprinkles Cupcake ATM at 50 E. Walton is not working.

Don’t ask me to pretend Olympics replay is live

ROEPER: When I had the temerity to retweet a Sun-Times item about Michael Phelps winning gold in the 100-meter butterfly, I was lambasted as if I’d blurted out the twist ending to a movie on the day it opened.

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ closes a great movie trilogy, but another was even better

Last Tuesday, 1 million moviegoers across the USA entered a theater to watch “The Dark Knight Rises.” That pushes the domestic box-office haul for “DKR” past the $300 million mark. Worldwide, the take is more than $540 million. True, “DKR” is lagging slightly behind the …

As conspiracy theorists see it, that orange-haired man in court is a James Holmes imposter

Have you heard? That suspect they’ve got locked up in Colorado isn’t the real James Holmes. The real Holmes is dead. The guy appearing in court with the orangey hair is a patsy, brought in by the government! He looks dazed and confused because they’ve …

Too much silly bleating in all the Olympics tweeting

RICHARD ROEPER: It’s the middle of a Monday, and I’ve got Olympic events coming out of my ears. Well, not my ears, but the Olympics are bursting from multiple TVs, a desktop, a laptop and an iPad.

Sensitive jokes can be funny, but Dane Cook’s and Daniel Tosh’s weren’t

When Dane Cook took the stage at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles last Thursday night, somebody in the back captured the polarizing comedian doing a bit about the Colorado shootings. “So I heard that the guy came into the theater about 25 minutes into …

Nothing to fear from ‘Watch’

Remember when the Trayvon Martin case was the hot-button story of the day, making national headlines and sparking heated debates everywhere? At the time sensitivities were so tender, 20th Century-Fox pulled advertising in Florida for a movie called “Neighborhood Watch,” changed the online trailer and …

Death threats, costumed Cubs and blowhard pols — the post-tragedy cycle continues

It happens every time. Even as we’re processing the tragedy and grieving for the victims and raging at the killer, we know there’s a certain pattern of events will transpire in the subsequent days. In the case of the Aurora, Colo., nightmare, the multi-day cycle …

One shooting consumes us, but others aren’t forgotten

If the media focus on one huge, horrific tragedy for days on end, it means we don’t care about anything else. So goes the argument that inevitably springs up in the wake of a news-cycle-dominating story such as the shootings in Aurora, Colo. Last Friday, …

Neither Christian Bale nor Dark Knight can save the day

There are real heroes in the Colorado theater massacre. The social media campaign to have a movie star in costume visit injured children is misguided.

Upcoming film has scene echoing theater rampage

One of the most highly anticipated movies of 2012 is “Gangster Squad,” the fictionalized biopic of Mickey Cohen starring Sean Penn as the gangster who ruled much of the L.A. underworld in the 1940s. The top-tier cast for the Sept. 7 release also includes Ryan …

A senseless act, not a movie

Some witnesses to the horror said at first they thought it was part of the movie. Even as we ask, “How could this happen,” we also say, “Again?””

Limbaugh takes on “Dark Knight Rises”

This is just fantastic. Sounding like your crabby old grandpa who still thinks of Beatles as long-haired punks and has an antenna on top of the roof because TV should be free, dammit, Rush Limbaugh wonders if the villain in “The Dark Knight Rises” is …

Sun, ‘Shades’ and tablets

The test: Sit in the sun and read Fifty Shades of Grey. Every couple of pages, switch devices, from the Kindle to the Kindle 2 to the Kindle Fire to the iPad and beyond, to see which tablet works best in the blazing sun.

Joe Paterno statue not the only odd effigy

Humankind has been paying tribute to itself for a long time. Archaeologists say the first drawing of a human by another human is 27,000 years old. Ancient civilizations built monuments to gods and emperors. The Venus of Willendorf, a four-inch-high statuette of a voluptuous woman, dates back some 24,000 years. In recent centuries, world leaders, legendary artists and geniuses who changed the world have been immortalized. Even sports legends such as Babe Ruth and Ted Williams were given statues or monuments — but it was almost always after the athlete had retired or passed on. It’s only in the last

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