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CHICAGO THEATER & TV REVIEWS
CHICAGO – After a delay that lasted well in excess of a year, “24” returns to FOX this Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008 from 7 to 9 p.m. with a two-hour “special event” (they used to just be called “TV movies”) called “24: Redemption”.
CHICAGO – “Wow! I feel like I’m at a rock concert!” “Me too. It’s like I want to rush the stage!”
While overhearing this conversation between two young women at the recent Chicago opening of “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story,” I realized there were no better words to sum up Drury Lane’s recent jukebox-blaring, toe-tapping homage to one of the greatest rock and rollers of all time.
CURRENTLY IN DISCUSSION
Adam Fendelman on Lake County Film Festival documentary jury
I have been asked and have joined the documentary shorts and features jury at the 2008 Lake County Film Festival. I screened the following three short documentaries tonight (and have many, many more to go and will of course reserve judgment until after screening them all):
Title: “Janis: A Daughter’s Portrait”
Description: A filmmaker daughter asks her farmwife mother about why she got married.
Note: A production still from the film follows.
Title: “Recyclergy”
Description: San Francisco Bay Area recycling pioneers share their insightfully hilarious thoughts and stories on garbage collection, treasure hunting, Jack Benny, and the products we buy.
Note: A production still from the film follows.
Title: “Weeding By Example”
Description: A small group of determined New Orleanians who suffered their own losses after Katrina, hope to save their park and their community — one weed at a time.
Note: A production still from the film follows.