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  Chicago Tribune on Minnie Minoso: The Documentary

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  We’re excited about the enthusiastic piece by John Owens about our Minnie Minoso documentary on page 6 of the A&E section of today’s Chicago Tribune and the terrific video he made for Tribune online. (photo: Scott Strazzante/Chicago Tribune) Check it out and please pledge your support to help finish this documentary. We only have 14 days to raise about $10,000 and we can’t do it unless YOU help us. We know we’re going to make it! It’s easy and fast. […]

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  Ben Hollis shows us the real Chicago

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  Today we’ve got a video featuring Chicago TV personality Ben Hollis, who you may know best as the host and co-creator of Wild Chicago. We worked with him in 1995 on a show we produced called Weekend TV. We recently discovered this camera original footage of Ben, shot by Andrew Jones, in the archive. It was not used in the show, but it’s one of the best things we’ve seen in awhile. We edited a short clip that should not […]

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  Fugazi in Washington DC, 1989

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  Check out Fugazi’s awesome outdoor set in 1989 at the Alternatives Festival at the National Mall, shot by THE 90’s correspondent, Eddie Becker.

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  Minnie Miñoso documentary… a great start!

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  I am so honored and grateful for the pledges for “Baseball’s Been Very, Very Good To Me.” They have come from all over the world… from  close friends, valued Media Burn supporters, and complete strangers. I went out with Minnie yesterday and was reminded of how long we’ve been getting together and talking about baseball and life. He was compelling last night in the way he spoke about the Ozzie Guillen controversy. It wasn’t on video, but the documentary will […]

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  Minnie Miñoso: The Documentary

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  This is not one of our ordinary video blogs. It is a request for your help as we finish producing an exciting and important video documentary. The subject is MINNIE MINOSO…Saturnino Orestes Armas Miñoso Arrieta. Minnie was my childhood hero as he broke the color line and became the first Black ball player in Chicago in 1951. Now, he’s 89 and seems just as spry as when he was the ringleader of the Go-Go White Sox. With your help, Baseball’s Been Very, Very […]

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  How they dye the river green

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  Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In Chicago, it has been a tradition since the first Mayor Daley to dye the Chicago River green for the St. Patrick’s Day parade. In 1992, videomaker Patrick Creadon, on assignment for THE 90’s, went downtown at 2:30am to cover the preparation for the parade and to talk with the guys from Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Local Union #110 about this tradition. The footage didn’t make it on the show, but 20 years later, we pulled it […]

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  Happy 175th Birthday, Chicago!

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  Chicago is celebrating the 175th anniversary of its incorporation. Nobody personified Chicago better than Richard J. Daley.  This 1986 special, produced for the 10th anniversary of his death, reveals the life and times of the man who was synonymous with Chicago for 21 years. You can also watch the full special at Media Burn.

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  Steven Spielberg didn’t win the Oscar

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  Steven Spielberg expected to be a big winner at the 1976 Academy Awards. TVTV was in the room documenting his reaction when he got the news that, despite dominating the box office that year with Jaws, he was not nominated for Best Director. Spielberg’s movies have made more than $8.5 billion at the box office worldwide, but his only Academy Awards for Directing so far were for 1993’s Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan (1998). One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s […]