Frankenstein's Monster (fictional character)

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2013-02-14 15:12:58

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Animated 'Hotel Transylvania' to scare off 'Looper'

2012-09-27 12:40:00

"Hotel Transylvania" will suck the life out of its rivals at the box office this weekend, as the animated monster flick is set to dominate ticket sales.� The 3-D film should easily claim the No. 1 position with a solid debut of around $35 million,...

Still alive!

2009-06-14 00:00:00

To call something "notes" means it isn't finished. A preparation for something else, or a work in progress. Or It means I know this is less than perfect. It means the piecemeal composition is acknowledged, should be applauded. "And to my horror (for I...

Criss Angel, in a word: unbelievable

2008-11-03 00:00:00

If Criss Angel were blindfolded, straitjacketed, run over by a steamroller, locked in a steel box and dumped from a helicopter into the Pacific Ocean, he still might be easier to salvage from disaster than "Criss Angel: Believe," the gloomy, gothic muddle...

Man of mud

2008-04-06 00:00:00

By Nick Owchar Why do so many monsters live in Victorian London? Was there something toxic in the Thames (Spenser probably wouldn't call it "sweet" if he could have seen it then -- or now) or in the fog that, as the Environmental Protection Agency points...

Broadway a big hit for Verdugo Hills High drama students

2008-08-10 00:00:00

New York Behold America's theater capital, twinkling, preening, clanging, stoking ambitions and devouring tourist dollars. Now behold the drama students of Verdugo Hills High School, their parents ferrying them from the San Fernando Valley to LAX, their...

Park City, ski-free

2005-01-16 00:00:00

As the country's best-known film festival opens Thursday, one drama that already has generated considerable buzz will play out off-screen: Park City's love-hate relationship with Sundance. Hotels and restaurants love the Sundance Film Festival,...

BMW's bigger, better Rolls

2003-09-17 00:00:00

Not since torch-wielding peasants chased Frankenstein's monster through the town square has such a noble spirit been so mercilessly taunted. One critic compared the new $320,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom to a coffin maker's "Executive Slumber Series"; another...

EDITORIAL: A more inconvenient truth

2013-05-15 01:34:02

Most of us saw the Kermit Gosnell infanticides as some of the most heinous crimes we've ever heard of outside of Josef Mengele's lab, and a ghastly reminder that abortion kills babies. The main difference is the timing. Planned Parenthood, on the...

The best of Chicago fringe theater in 2012

2012-12-27 10:51:00

Life on the fringe can be precarious, and this year three small Chicago theater companies with a combined 31 seasons among them decided to call it quits: BackStage Theatre and Caffeine Theatre (both on our best-of compilations in the past) and New Leaf...

'Dancing With the Stars All-Stars' recap, Country night, ya'll

2012-10-30 05:26:00

It's "Country Night," which is not my thing at all. If I know more than one of the songs tonight I'll be impressed with myself. I gave up on country music right around 1984. The night starts with a group dance by the troupe to a live performance by...

They'll do the monster mash-up

2012-10-12 14:30:00

"Whoever wins, we lose," was the tagline of the first "Alien vs. Predator" movie, and it could be argued by many to be the subtext of every presidential election year. On Saturday, Oct. 27, the Alex Theatre plans to upend both those notions, with a...

Malibou Lake provided the bucolic Bavarian backdrop where Frankenstein's monster (Boris Karloff ) befriends a young village girl as she tosses flowers into the water.

2010-12-14 13:07:05

Drew goes all "Weekend at Bernie's" on Mr. Newsome when he drops dead before he can announce Drew as the new store manager.

2009-10-14 12:17:00

costume) with their version of the patchwork man and his flat-skull, neck bolts and that graveyard shade of green.

2009-03-16 15:56:33