When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

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.

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.

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.

The magic gets lost in translation.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.