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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 10 Pairs of Chicago Passes to HBO’s ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Starring Steve Buscemi
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on September 13, 2011 - 2:39pm
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Season two of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” debuts on Sept. 25, 2011 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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Mayor (Richard M.) Daley (previously in Chicago): clean or corrupt?
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© 2011 Adam Fendelman, HollywoodChicago.com LLC
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CHICAGO – In our latest edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: TV, we have 10 admit-two passes up for grabs to the VIP advance-screening Chicago party for season two of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” starring Steve Buscemi! Star Michael Kenneth Williams will be in attendance! Season two of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” debuts on Sept. 25, 2011 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Each HollywoodChicago.com winner will be treated to a VIP cocktail reception at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011 followed by an advance screening of the first episode of season two of “Boardwalk Empire”. The advance screening will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago.
Your name must be on the list for entry. To win your free VIP pass to the advance-screening Chicago party for “Boardwalk Empire” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just submit a comment below along with your first and last name. Your entry will be invalid without your first and last name. That’s it! Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found below.
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Here is the plot description for “Boardwalk Empire”:
Atlantic City, 1921: Though his fortunes have soared in the wake of the enactment of Prohibition, Nucky Thompson is paying a steep price for wielding ultimate power in “the world’s playground”. Following the 1920 election, Nucky finds himself the target of an investigation for voter fraud and faces not only jail but insurrection by some of those he considered his closest allies.
From Terence Winter (Emmy Award-winning writer of “The Sopranos”) and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, “Boardwalk Empire” chronicles the life and times of Enoch “Nucky” Thompson. Equal parts politician and gangster, he’s the undisputed leader of Atlantic City. The Emmy-nominated, Golden Globe-winning drama series kicks off its 12-episode second season on Sept. 25, 2011 at 9 p.m. ET/PT exclusively on HBO followed by other episodes on subsequent Sundays at the same time.
In season two, Nucky and his lieutenants (including young World War I veteran Jimmy Darmody) appear to have solidified their hold on power by rigging an election and getting a crony elected mayor. However, after a bloody KKK attack at Chalky White’s bootleg warehouse, Nucky finds his hold on Atlantic City weakened. Meanwhile, mobsters like Arnold Rothstein, Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Al Capone wait in the wings and look for the chance to grab a bigger piece of Nucky’s pie.
“Boardwalk Empire” stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson; Michael Pitt as Jimmy Darmody; Kelly Macdonald as Margaret Schroeder, Nucky’s mistress; Michael Shannon as federal agent Nelson Van Alden; Michael Kenneth Williams as Chalky White, leader of the city’s African-American community and Nucky’s bootleg point person; Gretchen Mol as Gillian, Jimmy’s showgirl mother; and Dabney Coleman as Commodore Louis Kaestner, Nucky’s mentor.
The show also features Shea Whigham as Nucky’s resentful brother Elias, the sheriff of Atlantic City; Vincent Piazza as Lucky Luciano; Stephen Graham as Al Capone; Michael Stuhlbarg as Arnold Rothstein; Aleksa Palladino as Angela Darmody, Jimmy’s wife; Anthony Laciura as Eddie Kessler, Nucky’s valet; and Jack Huston as Richard Harrow, a disfigured war veteran who’s been befriended by Jimmy.
The season-two trailer for “Boardwalk Empire” can be watched now below.
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Like all Hookups here, this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup is simple: Just submit your comment below and we will award 10 winners randomly via e-mail for our VIP “Boardwalk Empire” Hookup. Winners must submit their first and last name in a comment below. Good luck!
 | By ADAM FENDELMAN |
Definitely Corrupt
Mayor Daley was corrupt but he ran the City well — have to play hardball at times just like they do in Boardwalk Empire — would love to see Steve Buscemi. I have loved all his movies as well!
Mayor - Clean or Corrupt?
I thought he was clean, hard to deal with, but okay in getting the job done. Thanks for the chance to see the opening of Boardwalk Empire!
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Daley is clean or corrupt depending on who you talk to—if he benefited someone, they’ll say he’s clean; if not, then corrupt. Seems his son is currently involved in some problems. Politicians will tell the public what they want to hear; what they do may be another story. For the most part, I think Daley was OK.
Clean or corrupt?
Absolutely corrupt - but he got things done.
Mayor Richard M Daley (previously in Chgo): clean or corrupt?
You better believe Daley was corrupt. All the dirt that led directly to his door was always miraculously swept onto appointed fall guys. All the dirty deeds done by relatives w/ political ties to him, his repsonse was he was “shocked,” or “disappointed.”
Psh! Yeah, Ok. Like father, like son. smh
Clean or Corrupt--Mayor Daley
Mayor Daley is a hybrid—half clean and half corrupt.There is no way possible that he could be squeaky cvlean with all the shanningans that occur in Chicago. Yet he had made some city improvements that were terribly clean in the sense of being “Green.” GIve him the benefit of the doubt with a clean rating.
Clean or Corrupt?
Clean by any political standards!(And that’s the truth Ruth!) Ron Samuels
Corrupt, Chicago is one of
Corrupt, Chicago is one of the most corrupt cities in America. But that’s what happens when you emulate a city like New York, the most corrupt of them all.
Damion Smith
Mayor (Richard M.) Daley (previously in Chicago): clean or corru
Corrupt!