entertainment
Pumping the experts for Halloween tips on using fake blood
Insiders at haunted houses and a gory Lyric Opera production say in order to get the biggest bang for your blood bucks, correct application is everything. So are quality materials.
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After Disney deal, ‘Star Wars’ might be a 007-style perennial
BILL ZWECKER: The new owners of Lucasfilm plan to make ‘Episode 7’ and more movies after that. One exec expects Jedi adventures to become ‘a permanent feature’ in our moviegoing lives.
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‘Moulin Rouge’ gets to the pointe of can-can at Auditorium Theatre
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet blends dance styles in its adaptation of the classic story about love, absinthe and Toulouse-Lautrec.
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Show off your ‘Thriller’ dance moves at NorthHalsted Parade
As the nighttime parade winds through Lakeview on Wednesday, creatures are expected to re-create moves made legendary in the 1983 hit music video “Thriller.”
People
Adele has baby boy; she and new son’s father ‘over the moon’
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‘Octomom’ in rehab for Xanax
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Billy Idol plays fan’s birthday party in Seattle
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Kim Kardashian makes a splash dressed as mermaid at NYC bash
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Madonna booed after touting Obama in New Orleans concert
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Tasered prowler at Tom Cruise’s home turns out to be neighbor
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Arnold Schwarzenegger to be Conan the sexagenarian in new movie
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Timberlake apologizes for ‘silly, unsavory video’
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‘Hello, I have cancer’: Tig Notaro shares pain in acclaimed comedy routine
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in Beverly Hills auto crash
Television
‘Walking Dead’ returns on Dish as AMC reaches settlement
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Wednesday’s talk shows
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Sandy causes Letterman, Fallon to tape late night shows without audience
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Tuesday’s talk shows
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Tone turns ominous at The Weather Channel as Hurricane Sandy nears
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Monday’s talk shows
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The men of TV get something off their chests: their shirts
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‘Nashville,’ ‘Revolution’ excite social media crowd
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New season for Norton show
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Oprah Winfrey chats up Justin Bieber at Chicago’s RL
Music
Bob Dylan, tangled up in blues on ‘Tempest’
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Taylor Swift to co-host Grammy nominations TV show
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Carly Rae Jepsen heard the call thanks to Justin Bieber, others
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For Halloween, conductors choose a little fright music
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Barbra Streisand a veteran tour de force at the United Center
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Haitink, CSO, chorus, soloists go to the heart in ‘Missa solemnis’
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Kids These Days blends sounds into one of year’s best albums
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Tony Bennett, Placido Domingo sing duets on latest albums
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Clug Hopping 10.26.212
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Gavin DeGraw dancing to happy tune
Stage
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‘Moulin Rouge’ gets to the pointe of can-can at Auditorium Theatre
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Memorable ‘FaithHealer’ gets original cast remount
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Gift Theatre’s 2013 season to probe birth, death, what lies beyond
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Actor George Wendt hospitalized; out of Northlight’s ‘Odd Couple’
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Mike Birbiglia plays ‘Boyfriend’ perfectly
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Barbra Streisand takes in Diane Lane’s performance in ‘Sweet Bird’ at Goodman Theatre
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‘QED’ a tour de force for Rob Riley
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Jan Kallish exiting Victory Gardens Theater
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ACT II: A second look at area stages 10.28.12
Movies
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Good buzz lifts Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’ to No. 1
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Seth Rogen on road with the ultimate Jewish mother: Barbra Streisand
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Gerard Butler’s surfing scare: ‘I thought I would die’
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Laura Linney plays one of the lonely people in ‘The Details’
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Denzel Washington’s movie ‘Flight’ brings director back to live action
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Jane Lynch likes the look of her animated self
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Sex scenes on screen not as fun as they look, actors say
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‘Paranormal Activity 4’ paramount at weekend box office
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Chicago International Film Festival spins reels but few deals
Books
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ROCK ’N’ READ
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Review: ‘The Racketeer’ by John Grisham
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Review: ‘Elsewhere’ by Richard Russo
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Best sellers 10.28.12
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Literary listings
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In pursuit of manliness, author Joel Stein gambles as a day trader in Chicago
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At Write Club, literary types go toe-to-toe with their best prose
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Bill O’Reilly has fun with history
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Review: ‘The Twelve’ by Justin Cronin