How the fabled athletic monsters of Chicago’s Midway were created
Tag: The Great Gatsby
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Ayn Rand in Love, Thrones! A Musical Parody, and eight more new stage shows
An incongruous musical and a Game of Thrones spoof are among this week’s highlights.
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Fergie, Q-Tip, and pop experiments gone awry
Club beats, hip-hop, and old-time jazz collide.
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Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby is not the first movie to insult F. Scott Fitzgerald
Revisiting Frank Borzage’s Three Comrades, the only film on which F. Scott Fitzgerald received screenwriting credit
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This week in Indian cinema: Wadala, Goa, and Gatsby,
Briefly noting three recent Indian films playing in Chicago this week
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Joyce, Fitzgerald, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
Posted inFilm
The Not-So-Great Gatsby
Leonard DiCaprio stars in an overblown adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
Posted inMusic
Gossip Wolf: Hollywood Holt joins Beyonce and Andre 3000 on the Great American Soundtrack
Hollywood Holt produces Beyonce and Andre 3000, Fielded shares a track, and more
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Straight-Up Lincoln, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Tucker Max responds: You’re the exploiter! Me: You’re Tom Buchanan!
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. […]