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" Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. "
Christmas
Thanksgiving
Week
" I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' and the original 'Rocky'. "
Experience
Original
Star
" I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park. "
Up
Chicago
Park
" I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV. "
Classics
Loved
Watching
" I'm a lifelong bachelor, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't marry the right woman. "
Right
Bachelor
Marry
" I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12. "
Hold
Texas
Been
" Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy. "
Living
Past
Poker
" Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day. "
Beautiful
Work
Day
" On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game. "
Like
Blush
Simple
" Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards. "
Cards
Gambling
Over
" That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials. "
Why
Always
Been
" There's a lot of vitriolic ranting out there, but there are literally hundreds of critics on the web who care deeply about film and having something to say about it. "
Web
Care
Critics
" The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns. "
Christmas
Advertising
Truth Is
" Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make. "
Season
Money
Holiday
" Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location. "
New York
Long
Late
" When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team. "
Rooting
Team
Much
" Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented. "
Insight
Wit
Why
" You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later. "
Tiger
Golf
Find
" You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker. "
You
Yourself
Life
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