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fter 24 years, a Winnetka institution will close its doors. O’Neil’s Restaurant, 1003 Green Bay Road, will cease operating on Jan. 1 2016. “It’s been a great run, but its time for someone else to come in with a new concept,” said O’Neil’s owner Patrick O’Neil. O’Neil said he plans to focus on his other two Winnetka restaurants – Trifecta Grille and Little Ricky’s Rib Joint – both of which he said are thriving. “We tried remodeling O’Neil’s and changing the menu but after [24] years it just ran out of gas. And the other two [restaurants] are rocking,” O’Neil said, adding that sales had stayed flat at O’Neil’s despite the changes. Continued on PG 12
SPECTRE is in theatres now.
NORTHWESTERN ALUM PENS SCREENPLAY FOR LATEST BOND The newest installment of the James Bond series finds 007 busy untangling the nefarious web that is SPECTRE
side from the British spelling for “specter,” meaning ghost, what is SPECTRE? It’s not new. In fact we’ve seen it—them—before; the master villain Franz Oberhauser (played by Christoph Waltz) tells Bond (in a shadowy dreamlike sequence reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut): “You came across me so many times, yet you never saw me. What took you so long?” What took us so long, indeed? SPECTRE’s machinations are grand. Like the stylized political cartoons depicting early 20th century monopolies, their shadowy tentacles slip through governments, strangle combatants, and envelop the world over. The acronym stands for the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion: a global terrorist organization that plays a major role in the Bond stories; first introduced in 1959 by the novelist Ian Fleming in the novel Thunderball. We’ve seen SPECTRE onscreen before, and many Bond villains count themselves as (card-carrying?) members. There’s Dr. No (Dr. No), Emilio Largo (Thunderball) and, of course, Ernst Stavro Blofeld (From Russia With Love, Thunderball, and Diamonds Are Forever, to name a few). Blofeld, you may remember, is the bald-
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headed criminal mastermind with a scar over his eye and a fluffy white cat in his lap. Ring any bells? In recent years, he’s been recalibrated in pop culture as the innocuous, (if not endearing) rogue Dr. Evil in Austin Powers. In fact, and this is true, after For Your Eyes Only—where Bond unceremoniously drops him down a chimney stack before the credits even roll—the filmmakers lost the rights to the character. (To add insult to, ahem, injury—he even goes unnamed in that last movie.) A legal battle lasting for more than 50 years is the reason; with MGM Studios and the Broccoli family finally acquiring all of the rights to the 007 franchise f rom screenwriter Kevin McClory and his estate in recent years. Where does that leave us? Well, more uncertain then we’d like. We’re left with a rebooted franchise (starting with 2006’s Casino Royale); with a moody, brooding James Bond; played by a moody, brooding British actor who would rather slit his own wrists with glass shards—ouch— than play the titular role again. Enter John Logan. You’d be forgiven for not knowing the name; but the Northwestern University alum has put pen to paper for a wide range of films (Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo), TV shows (Penny Dreadful), and Continued on PG 12
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