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Richard Roeper's column has been appearing in the Sun-Times for more than 20 years. The column has garnered numerous awards, including the National Headliner Award …Read More

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Goodbye and good riddance, Norma Jean

It looked like the thing was in a noose. The enormous and breathtakingly tacky statue of Marilyn Monroe was taken apart last Monday night, a heavy orange rope around Marilyn’s neck as she was separated into pieces. Factor in the foggy conditions, and it was …

  • Avengers’ $200 million haul huge, but Rhett Butler’s still king

    RICHARD ROEPER: When you figure in climbing ticket prices, 3D surcharges and more, old movies look more heroic for attracting fans.

  • Richard Roeper: Tom Brokaw’s right -- glitterati have no place at White House dinner

    Amen. That’s what I say to Tom Brokaw’s comments on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday regarding the increasingly garish White House Correspondents Dinner. “Look, I think George Clooney is a great guy, I’d like to meet Charlize Theron, but I don’t think the big …Read More

  • With or without NATO hassle, Chicago already an international city

    Tell me again why Chicago should be excited to host the NATO Summit? Reason No. 1: It will pump some $128 million into city coffers. Right. Except some economists have already said that figure seems wildly inflated. Reason No 2: It will put Chicago on …Read More

    • Movie goes ‘All In’ — good bet for poker fans

    In the excellent new documentary “All In: The Poker Movie,” there’s great archival footage of Amarillo Slim winning the World Series of Poker in 1972. First prize: $80,000. Number of entrants: Eight By 2006, when Jamie Gold bested 8,772 entrants to win the WSOP Main …

    One Avenger’s clearly the best, and another (sorry, Scarlett) the worst

    RICHARD ROEPER: She looks great in the outfit, but I’m not buying Black Widow’s singlehanded defeat of a roomful of bad guys.

    Can’t get bad Chicago song out of my head

    In 1985, the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau released a series of promotional TV ads with the theme, “Calling Me Home Chicago.” Celebrities who were from Chicago or had a deep bond with the city were shown returning to the city by the lake. Quincy …

    Quirky ‘Five-Year Engagement’ worth walk down theater aisle

    A more accurate title for “The Five-Year Engagement” would have been “I Got a Job in Michigan.” Uneven and a little too predictable but also consistently smart, sharp and sweet, this movie is more about the tension created when a couple uproots so one of them can realize a career dream than it is about fear of commitment.

  • President Barack Obama’s slow jam with Jimmy Fallon? A little cheesy

    When President Barack Obama told Jimmy Fallon one of his favorite movies is “Groundhog Day,” I thought for sure someone in the GOP would respond by saying: “Little wonder the president is such a fan of ‘Groundhog Day,’ given that we’ve been waking up to …Read More

  • Bored with real life? There’s an app for that

    If Marty McFly touched down in the real 2012, no doubt he’d be dazzled by the info-techno-revolution, and within a day he’d come to this conclusion: The average American looks down at her communications device more often than she looks other people in the eye. …Read More

  • Terrible Ted Nugent is really Tooth-, Fang- and Clueless

    Few Americans have enjoyed the fruits of freedom more than Ted Nugent. Born and raised in Detroit, Nugent moved to Palatine as a teenager. He’s a graduate of St. Viator High. (Go Lions!) Nugent used student deferments to avoid the Vietnam draft. (He has recanted …Read More

    • Roeper: For Dick Clark, countdown is over — and he’s No. 1

    He was Ryan Seacrest before Ryan Seacrest’s parents met. In recent years when Dick Clark would appear on his “Rockin’ New Years Eve” on ABC-TV to count down to midnight with his protege Ryan Seacrest, there were some who felt Mr. Clark shouldn’t be on …

    Joke neither funny nor noteworthy

    Sarah Silverman has built her career on edgy, offensive-to-some material, whether she’s making a joke about Asians that was misinterpreted, or starring in the classic video, “I’m F------ Matt Damon.” Now Silverman’s getting the Drudge treatment and taking hits elsewhere for a Twitter visual joke. …

    Didn’t like ’em then, don’t like ’em now

    Waiting in line for a beer at the Sox game last Saturday when a guy asks me what I thought of the new “Three Stooges” movie. Didn’t see it, I tell him. Had a scheduling conflict when they screened it. “So you’ll just see it …

    Alec Baldwin forgets cardinal rule of celebrity vs. media battle

    The ever-mercurial actor Alec Baldwin often forgets one of the cardinal rules of the celebrity and/or media battle: Always feud up. If you’re a local broadcaster and some blogger for a media website rips into you, the best move is to ignore it. If you …

    Roeper: I’m glad Ozzie Guillen is now Miami’s problem

    When I first heard of Ozzie Guillen’s ridiculous and ignorant praise of Fidel Castro, I thought: There you go Miami. He’s all yours. Good luck with that. Chicagoans and in particular White Sox fans were all too familiar with “Ozzie being Ozzie,” i.e., Ozzie saying …

    ‘Neighborhood Watch’ movie might need to age a bit

    RICHARD ROEPER: Wait ‘til next year. That’s probably the best marketing strategy when it comes to the release of “Neighborhood Watch.” Even though the movie was of course conceived and filmed well before the shooting of Trayvon Martin, there’s no way of avoiding the comparisons — unless you shelve the film for a year.

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