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Home » Archives for Joy Bergmann

Author Archives: Joy Bergmann

Posted inBlogs

The Tylenol Mafia

by Joy Bergmann September 26, 2011August 19, 2021

In a new book, The Tylenol Mafia, author Scott Bartz says he knows why the “Tylenol murders” continue to confound investigators

Posted inNews & Politics

Seduced

by Joy Bergmann May 9, 2002August 19, 2021

He drew them in with his good looks and charm. He involved them in betrayal, robbery, and murder. He left them doing time.

Posted inNews & Politics

Cable Box

by Joy Bergmann January 4, 2001August 19, 2021

Format Three La-Z-Boy pundits swilling beer and displaying their dirty socks assess music and cinema. In any given half-hour episode, pickin’ may refer to selectin’ fine VCR fodder, riffin’ rhapsodically […]

Posted inNews & Politics

The Hardest Working Santa in Show Business

by Joy Bergmann November 30, 2000August 19, 2021

When there’s a job to do, he does it well.

Posted inArts & Culture

Group Efforts: I’m OK, you’re OK, even if we’re not OK

by Joy Bergmann November 23, 2000August 19, 2021

A poster listing the “10 Warning Signs of ‘Normality’” hangs in Katherine Hodges’s Ukrainian Village kitchen. It cautions that such qualities as being obedient, boring, and gullible may be psychiatric […]

James Lewis (photo added 2018)
Posted inNews & Politics

A Bitter Pill

by Joy Bergmann November 2, 2000August 19, 2021

Someone killed seven people by putting cyanide in tylenol capsules. When James Lewis was caught for writing an extortion letter, prosecutors appeared to stop looking for the killer. Almost 20 years later no one has been convicted of the murders.

Posted inArts & Culture

Reel Life: bending the rules of sexual politics

by Joy Bergmann August 17, 2000August 19, 2021

Filmmakers Ben Berkowitz and Ben Redgrave have a message for Chicago artists of every stripe: Buckle down and get to work. Second-class hang-ups may pervade Second City attitudes, but they […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Cable Box

by Joy Bergmann August 3, 2000August 19, 2021

Format Multimedia variety show, with an emphasis on variety. Depending on the episode, viewers might see repetitive skits performed by hand puppets, an immigrant offering snack cakes, or sad-faced young […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Ladies’ Rooms

by Joy Bergmann July 6, 2000August 19, 2021

By Joy Bergmann Susan Leinwohl leapt at the chance to run away from her dour Denver women’s college with a dashing graduate student from Northwestern she’d met on the Colorado […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Down on the Farm

by Joy Bergmann June 15, 2000August 19, 2021

Iowa’s attempt to lure me back only remind me why I left in the first place.

Posted inNews & Politics

Cable Box

by Joy Bergmann June 8, 2000August 19, 2021

“Expose”

Posted inNews & Politics

Cable Box

by Joy Bergmann May 11, 2000August 19, 2021

Secrets to Success

Posted inNews & Politics

Cable Box

by Joy Bergmann April 6, 2000August 19, 2021

Format Sixty minutes of “nonstop action” produced by the avuncular Bill Wildt, 56, president of the nonprofit Motorsports Advancement Crusade. Footage of racing and of customized cars, trucks, motorcycles, snowmobiles, […]

Posted inArts & Culture

On Exhibit: ambassadors of the insect world

by Joy Bergmann March 16, 2000August 19, 2021

A group of boys jockeys for position around the open display of delicate chrysalises. One kid bullies forward and extends his index finger to a fallen, newly emerged butterfly. As […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Cable Box

by Joy Bergmann March 2, 2000August 19, 2021

Format Half hour of sketch comedy by the Cirque du Squirrel ensemble under the direction of auteur Dale Chapman. Program promotes yucks through “dick jokes and infantile bathroom humor.” Target […]

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