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Gran Torino

He steps out of the truck. He’s just a little old man, must be what, eighty? And after all, there are three of you, strapping teenage boys, king of this corner in this run-down town, and if you want to have a little fun scaring this Hmong girl, who’s going to stop you, him?

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Artworks

Frank Sinatra, The Anxiety of Performance, Hoosier Homefront 1945

This week on Artworks: Dick Bishop on Frank Sinatra, Voices of Youth on performance anxiety, and David Brent Johnson on 1945 Hoosier Markets.

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Milk

It took three men to turn the story of Harvey Milk back around in Hollywood: a hot young writer named Dustin Lance Black, a studiously independent director, Gus Van Sant; and a star with muscle, Sean Penn.

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Bloomington Playwrights Project: Sex Death 2008

Just as the season begins to flirt with cold in earnest and the day starts to get dark long before dinner time, it’s time for the Bloomington Playwrights Projects annual late night Sex Death series.

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Treasure Island

Singer, song writer and actor Tim Grimm talks about playing Long John Silver, one of the most magnetic dark characters of boy’s adventure stories.

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