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Chicago Hype Exchange: Charting the capricious contours of celebrity

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This week’s biggest gainers:

1 Joel Quenneville
You caught a Predator, now pluck a Canuck, will ya?

2 George Halas McCaskey
C’mon, Li’l Papa. Bring back grandaddy’s big bad Bears.

3 Tarell McCraney
A big Stepp for a young playwright.

4 Ozzie Guillen
Sweepness on Seattle? We’ll take it.

5 Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell
You didn’t sell that Groupon stock for half off, did you?

This week’s biggest losers:

1 Alexi Giannoulias
Can you make it “off Broadway”?

2 Rod Blagojevich
The circus has begun; the clown wants to be ringmaster.

3 Carlos Zambrano
From starting ace to middle reliever: not exactly a superstar narrative.

4 Vinny Del Negro
When will we see you again? Lebron says never.

5 Major Wright
Usually the Bears top draft pick is major in his own right.

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