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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.
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Long history of Batman fan films made in Chicago
Believe it or not, there’s actually a long history of Batman fan films
being made in Chicago, going back at least as far as 1964, when a
teenaged Don Glut (who later went on to write the novelization of The
Empire Strikes Back and direct a number of B movies) made “Batman &
Robin” in the alleyway next to his apartment building in the Lakeview
district. I interviewed Glut for a book I wrote about the history and
future of fan films (“Homemade Hollywood,” which comes out in
September), and he’s quite the character. If you want to find out more
about fan films, there’s a lot of great websites to explore, including
fanfilms.net, fanboytheatre.com, and my own humble fan film blog, fancinematoday.com.