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Home » The Great Gatsby

Tag: The Great Gatsby

Posted inNews & Politics

Hard hat, lunch pail: The myth of toughness in Chicago sports

by David Isaacson August 15, 2017August 18, 2021

How the fabled athletic monsters of Chicago’s Midway were created

Posted inArts & Culture

Ayn Rand in Love, Thrones! A Musical Parody, and eight more new stage shows

by Chicago Reader August 11, 2016August 18, 2021

An incongruous musical and a Game of Thrones spoof are among this week’s highlights.

Posted inBlogs

Fergie, Q-Tip, and pop experiments gone awry

by Miles Raymer May 28, 2013August 19, 2021

Club beats, hip-hop, and old-time jazz collide.

Posted inBlogs

Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby is not the first movie to insult F. Scott Fitzgerald

by Ben Sachs May 22, 2013August 19, 2021

Revisiting Frank Borzage’s Three Comrades, the only film on which F. Scott Fitzgerald received screenwriting credit

Posted inBlogs

This week in Indian cinema: Wadala, Goa, and Gatsby,

by Ben Sachs May 10, 2013August 19, 2021

Briefly noting three recent Indian films playing in Chicago this week

Posted inBlogs

Joyce, Fitzgerald, and the rest of this week’s screenings

by J.R. Jones May 10, 2013August 19, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

The Great Gatsby
Posted inFilm

The Not-So-Great Gatsby

by J.R. Jones May 9, 2013August 19, 2021

Leonard DiCaprio stars in an overblown adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

Fielded
Posted inMusic

Gossip Wolf: Hollywood Holt joins Beyonce and Andre 3000 on the Great American Soundtrack

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil April 17, 2013August 19, 2021

Hollywood Holt produces Beyonce and Andre 3000, Fielded shares a track, and more

Posted inBlogs

Straight-Up Lincoln, and the rest of this week’s movies

by J.R. Jones November 9, 2012August 19, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

Tucker Max responds: You’re the exploiter! Me: You’re Tom Buchanan!

by Whet Moser September 18, 2009August 19, 2021

Looks like I hurt Tucker Max’s feelings: “Max was adamant that he not only doesn’t hate women, he loves them, ‘That’s the question I have constantly asked that the protestors have never addressed, because they can’t: ‘If my art is misogynist and promotes violence against women, then why are half my fans women?’” Beats me. […]

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