Recently added articles from Mount Prospect Times (IL):
The Rock has nothing over one real-life cab driver
May 07, 2009; ... Who can take something as cool as cab-driving and render it dull as ditch water? Walt Disney Studios. "Race to Witch Mountain" features a cabbie who drives like he's in a demolition derby, which makes the movie minor fantasy fulfillment for selected holders of hack licenses able to ...
Five best taxicab movies
May 07, 2009 ... 1. "Let It Ride" (1989) -- Cabdriver Richard Dreyfus goes on an impossible winning streak at Hialeah, and the more he wins, the more interesting he becomes. Even Meg Tilly thinks he's cool. One of his cabbie buddies is David Johansen, who also played the cabdriver/Ghost of Christmas Past in ...
Rat Pack to resurrect in Skokie
May 07, 2009; ... Nowhere else but in Las Vegas and the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie will anybody get to hear comedian Buddy Hackett tell showbiz powerhouses Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Dean Martin to hit the stage. "The Rat Pack is Back: A Tribute to Frank, ...
Calendar
May 07, 2009 ... STAGE Agnes Nixon Playwriting Festival, 8 p.m. May 22 and 2 and 8 p.m. May 23 in Northwestern University's Mussetter-Struble Theater, 1949 Campus Drive, Evanston. The staged readings festival will feature "Tales for Telling" by Jack Novak, "Letters To" by Sarah Einspanier, and "The ...
The Perfect Ones
May 07, 2009; ... Warmer months mean summer parties. My husband and I fight on the way there, so we're in an even more festive mood to enchant other guests. You know the perfect parties: a setting to rival the Hamptons, sailboats coasting along an idyllic blue horizon, distinguished guests who work with a ...