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Patricia “Patty” Hearst displays the executive grant of clemency as she leaves the Federal Correctional Institution in Pleasanton, California, on Feb. 2, 1979. With her is fiance Bernard Shaw, her former bodyguard. (AP)

As Patty Hearst turns 70, new book recalls her kidnapping and that famous bank robbery

February 20, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Patty Hearst turns 70 on Tuesday. That name might not mean a great deal to some of you. But it might bring back vivid memories of a rifle-toting young woman...

Movie director Ed Zwick speaks about his new book, “Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions” during an author talk at the American Writers Museum on Feb. 8, 2024. Zwick wrote about directing movies such as "Blood Diamond," "About Last Night" and "Legends of the Fall."

What’s it like to work with Cruise, Pitt or Belushi? Ed Zwick knows

February 14, 2024 at 11:42 a.m.

The Chicago director's new book is “Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood.”

Singer Paul Marinaro stands for a portrait at Studio 5 performance space, Feb. 9, 2024, in Evanston. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

The music goes on for singer Paul Marinaro, in concert in Evanston this weekend

February 14, 2024 at 12:23 p.m.

Paul Marinaro came to Chicago by car, driving in from Buffalo, New York. He carried with him some clothes, a few record albums and something special.

baiduhai reporter and sports columnist Ring Lardner, circa 1926. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)

Unearthing the brilliance and playfulness of Ring Lardner in ‘Frank Chance’s Diamond’

February 7, 2024 at 5:15 a.m.

Former sportswriter Ron Rapoport brings Ring Lardner's sports writing into the light in his new book "Frank Chance’s Diamond."

Sports memorabilia expert Michael Osacky with Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx cards on Jan. 25, 2024.

Into the lucrative world of sports trading cards and memorabilia with expert Michael Osacky

January 31, 2024 at 12:32 p.m.

Michael Osacky occupies an important niche in the surprisingly vast, sometimes wicked and increasingly competitive and lucrative world of sports memorabilia.

Director Harold Ramis revisits the film site of "Groundhog Day" on Feb. 2, 1997, in Woodstock.

Some 30 years later, ‘Groundhog Day’ still casts a spell, no matter who shows up at a reunion

January 24, 2024 at 11:55 a.m.

On the momentous evening of Aug. 8, 1988, two of the greatest characters this city has ever known shared a microphone at Wrigley Field. It was the occasion of the...

Comptroller Rita Crundwell, convicted of embezzling $53 million from the citizens of Dixon, is one of dozens of those featured in the film "Lincoln is Crying."

‘Lincoln Is Crying’ movie takes a comedic look at the corruption that stains Illinois … and Chicago

January 23, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

John Davies has been a television producer for most of his adult life, Tom Weinberg too. They met decades ago at WTTW-Ch. 11 and have fashioned separate careers making films...

Author Rick Telander with his book "Sweet Dreams" with 42 poems, each matched with illustrations by guest artists from around the world.

In ‘Sweet Dreams,’ a sportswriter becomes a poet and some pals provide the magical artwork

January 23, 2024 at 12:05 p.m.

If you know anything about Rick Telander, you know that he has been a must-read sports columnist with the Sun-Times for more than 30 years, having been hired away from...

"The 1963 Chicago Bears: George Halas and the Road to the NFL Championship," by Charles Billington.

Bringing some warmth with a book about the ’63 Bears and some other sports tales from the podcast world

January 16, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

The weather outside is frightful and frigid and I don't really need to tell you that this is a bleak time of year. That is especially true for local sports...

The skating chimp Spanky with his partner-trainer Dave Pitts in a 1965 promotional photo for Ice Capades.

A new movie and play gives us an ice skating chimp, his trainer and a serial killer

January 10, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

In the rarefied realm of monkey movies, "He Went That Way" is not likely to rank with such cinematic triumphs as "Planet of the Apes" and its many sequels, Clint...

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