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 The most beautiful things in life are not things. They’re people and places and memories and pictures. ---Unknown In Memoriam Remembering the lives and work of those we lost in 2021.
December, 2021 |
Christmas Sing-A-Long & Double Feature
December 10 - December 23
The Music Box Theatre
3733 North Southport
Chicago
Now entering its 38th year, this event is a Chicago tradition. Enjoy a sing-a-long and double feature featuring the holiday classics It's a Wonderful Life and White Christmas. https://musicboxtheatre.com/events/the-38th-annual-music-box-christmas-sing-a-long-double-feature |
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Dean Stockwell (1936-2021) Dean Stockwell, who found success in both film and television, had a career that lasted over 70 years. His second screen role was in this classic MGM musical. It tells the story of two love-sick sailors (Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra) on shore leave in Hollywood who both fall in love with the same woman (Kathryn Grayson). Stockwell portrayed Grayson's nephew. Unrated. |
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Cicely Tyson (1924-2021) Cicely Tyson is another actor with a career that stretched over seven decades. After being nominated for an Academy Award® for her role in the film Sounder in 1974, she appeared in this made-for-television movie. It follows the life of an African American woman from Louisiana, from the time of her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of one hundred and ten. For her portrayal of Jane Pittman, Tyson was awarded two Emmy® awards. Unrated. |
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Ed Asner (1929-2021)
Ed Asner is perhaps best known for his role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In addition to television roles, Asner acted in films as well as doing voice work in animated movies such as Up. In Elf he portrays Santa Claus. The film tells the story of a human child (Will Ferrell) raised by elves at the North Pole who learns of his human family and goes to live with them in New York City. Rated PG. |
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Yaphet Kotto (1939-2021)
Yaphet Kotto's 40-year career included starring roles in both films and television series. One of his first major roles was in this 1973 film. In Live and Let Die James Bond (Roger Moore) takes on a powerful drug lord (Kotto) who schemes to conquer the world. Rated PG. |
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Jessica Walter (1941-2021)
Jessica Walter found success on Broadway as well on screen and television. In 1971 she starred with Clint Eastwood in Play Misty for Me as a fan who becomes violent when she is rejected by a disc jockey. Rated R. |
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Charlie Watts (1941-2021)
Drummer Charlie Watts joined the Rolling Stones in 1963 and played with them until his death. This program was produced in 1968 by the BBC as a TV special. However, it never aired and was not released until 1996. The program stars the Rolling Stones headlining a rock concert and features circus performers between musical acts. Unrated. |
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Norman Lloyd (1914-2021)
Norman Lloyd's career began in the 1930s where he performed with theatre groups such as Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre. In 1942 he starred in the Alfred Hitchcock directed film Saboteur. In the film, a factory worker is wrongly accused and he sets out to prove his innocence after witnessing sabotage and murder by a Nazi agent, portrayed by LLoyd.
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Melvin Van Peebles (1932-2021)
Director, writer, composer, and actor Melvin Van Peebles jolted American independent cinema to new life with his explosive stylistic energy and unfiltered expression of Black consciousness. In Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song a young hustler's aimless pleasure-seeking turns to radicalism after witnessing the beating of a Black revolutionary by two cops. Rated R. |
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Michael Apted (1941-2021)
Michael Apted directed numerous acclaimed films such as Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas in the Mist, and The World Is Not Enough. He also directed all follow-up films to the original television documentary Seven Up! The series of programs documents the lives of fourteen British children beginning at age seven with updates every seven years. Unrated. |
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Michael K. Williams (1966-2021)
This critically acclaimed series follows a drug investigation in Baltimore, Maryland and is told from the point of view of both the police and the criminals. Michael K. Williams was praised for his portrayal of Omar Little, a notorious robber who targets low level drug dealers. Rated TV-MA (Mature Audience Only) |
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