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online.wsj.com - 2/21/2009

Television Review: 'Taking Chance'; 'Hard Time'

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DOROTHY RABINOWITZ It was impossible to imagine, beforehand, all the ways a film like " Taking Chance " (Saturday, 8-9:30 p.m. EST, on HBO) could work its power. There are no conflicts, no warring sides, no mysteries of character -- the usual stuff of drama. The story's outcome is clear from the ...

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youtube.com - 2/23/2009

Taking on (video)

— youtube.com — Mike Quigley is the only candidate for congress in the IL-5 special election that has been fighting Todd Stroger's tax hikes and working to reform Cook Count... (more) Taking on (video)

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jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com - 2/23/2009

Took A Chance On "Taking Chance"

— jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com — and left my comments over at Blackfive's place in the hopes that the Phelps family will see them.If you have HBO I can wholeheartedly recommend that you watch this movie, with generous amounts of Kleenex handy.But this is more then a movie about the ... (more) Took A Chance On "Taking Chance"

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military.rightpundits.com - 2/22/2009

Chance Phelps: Taking Chance

— military.rightpundits.com — Chance Phelps was 19-years-old when he was killed in combat operations just outside of Baghdad, Iraq on April 9, 2004. Lt. Col. Michael Strobl volunteered to escort PFC Phelps home to their common hometown, Dubois, Wyoming. An HBO movie has been made of Lt. Col. Strobl’s account of his ... (more) Chance Phelps: Taking Chance

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Pat Dollard | Young Americans — WSJ: By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ It was impossible to imagine, beforehand, all the ways a film like “Taking Chance” (Saturday, 8-9:30 p.m. EST, on HBO) could work its power. There are no conflicts, no warring sides, no mysteries of character — the usual stuff of drama. The story’s outcome is clear from the beginning. Yet it’s no less clear that “Taking Chance” is not only high drama, but a kind that is, in the most literal way, breathtaking — watching parts of it can make breathing an effort, and those parts ...

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Power Line — ... killed in Iraq. The Chicago Tribune published Col. Strobl's recollections of the journey on its one-year anniversary in "Taking Chance." Col. Strobl's account opens: "Chance Phelps was wearing his Saint Christopher medal when he was killed on Good Friday. Eight days later, I handed the medallion to his mother. I didn't know Chance before he died. Today, I miss him." Blackfive fairly characterized Stobl's account as being about "Valor, Honor and Respect." Dorothy Rabinowitz reviewed the HBO film in yesterday's Wall Street Journal. She writes: ...