Word: chicago
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What other artists would you like to do a duet with? Earl S. Worthington, CHICAGO...
...nearly 45 years, Roger Ebert has remained one of world's most influential film critics. Beginning his career as a 15-year-old sports writer with the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, he joined the staff of the Chicago Sun-Times in 1966 and was named the paper's film critic within six months. His byline has appeared in the paper ever since. In the intervening decades, he has won the Pulitzer Prize and served as the host of a nationally-syndicated weekly TV program, in which he and Gene Siskel would assign films their trademarked thumbs-up, or thumbs-down...
...Sita ran into a $250,000 royalty bill for the circa-1930 recording that supplied the blues. Now some sort of deal has been arranged, and it will open at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago after the festival. Nothing could have been a box office success, I believe, but its distributor went belly-up in the economic downturn. It will be released on DVD in later April...
...pleased that Richard Roeper and I will be presenting a new movie review program, to be announced in the near future. It will involve Richard, of the Chicago Sun-Times, Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune and Christy Lemire of the Associated Press. I have made no public comment about what Disney has done to our show...
...been making headlines. No, not the rock band or the cold remedy but the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Volatility Index, or VIX, which has been on a wild ride over the past year. The stock market crash set this indicator of volatility soaring to above 80 - for perspective, the VIX has historically averaged around...