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W E E K L Y N E W S L E T T E R
September 2, 2010
Welcome to September!
Temperatures changing, kids back at school,
sharpened pencils, leaves changing, film festival ... yup - all signs of
Fall
fast approaching. The
GREAT news is that this is a loooong
weekend. Please enjoy safely.
Now this week brings us one of the most special music videos I've seen
in awhile - Saidah Baba Talibah's,
Place Called Grace. The video is directed by the mega-talented
Sarah Michelle Brown and is so
visually and musically appealing - think Idlewild meets Ella Fitzgerald
but with full Canadian content!! Congratulations to the full team
of contributors ... I couldn't wait to feature this video, which many of
you have already seen.
Topping this week's news ... Did you see the BET special this week on
women in hip hop? Really good and really took me back and they
even mentioned Eternia (Toronto's
own!) in their list of upcoming and outstanding MCs. See article
below under TOP STORIES.
Will Smith gets on board with the
fight against cancer and hopefully Hollywood can bring attention to
finally beating this disease. Also up front is the results of this
year's Emmys. Steve Harvey
brings us an award for do-gooders ... from the famous to the average
Joe, in the Hoodie Awards.
On the cusp of TIFF, I hope to have some exciting pictures for you this
year. If you stay tuned to my
PHOTO GALLERY, you can look for
updates.
Want to know what the deal is but not in an email?
Check out the newsletter online at
www.langfieldentertainment.com.
This newsletter is designed to give you some updated
entertainment-related news and provide you with our upcoming event
listings. Welcome to those who are new members.
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Saidah Baba Talibah’s “Place Called Grace” Makes US Debut As AOL
Spinner Video of the Day
TORONTO, ON – Following the world premiere of Toronto rock soul
songstress Saidah Baba Talibah’s
“Place Called Grace”
video on Exclaim.ca, Saidah is excited to announce the official
US premiere of “Place Called Grace” - the first video off her
scintillating The Phone Demos EP - on AOL Spinner’s Video of the
Day!
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Source: Theresa Micallef, tenfourcommunications@yahoo.ca |
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BET’s First Original Documentry is Artistry in Motion
(August 27, 2010) *For all of those like-minded connoisseurs of the culture, we
offer you BET’s “My
Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women In Hip-Hop.”
Directed by up and coming filmmaking wunderkind Ava DuVernay,
“My Mic Sounds Nice” is a salve for to the soul for the lover of
the culture who is tired of the candy-coated arsenic that passes
for Hip-Hop these days. |
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Source:
www.eurweb.com
- By Ricardo Hazell |
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‘Stand Up
to Cancer’ Adds Will Smith, Denzel Washington
(September 1, 2010) *Will
Smith
and
Denzel Washington
have been added to the line-up of the telethon “Stand
Up to Cancer,”
airing Sept. 10 at 8 p.m. across multiple networks. George
Clooney, Gwyneth Paltrow and Renee Zellweger will also appear on
the fundraiser, which will be preceded by an online pre-show
hosted by Cat Deeley of Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance.” |
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Emmy Winners Are Spot On
(August 29, 2010) Either I’m getting better at picking
Emmy winners,
or the Academy is. I’m
guessing it’s them.
Actually, my official pre-show prediction ratio was way, way off
– I have become so accustomed to anticipating the worst and for
the most part getting it, the last thing I expected was for them
to get so much of it so right. |
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The 2010 Hoodie Awards Wrap Up
(August 30, 2010) *Saturday night, multimedia personality
Steve Harvey
brought his
tremendous brilliant power-filled
’8th Annual Hoodie Awards’
to the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas and turned
the super-sized area out with a sold-out audience, heart-tugging
musical performances and alarming nods to accustomed people,
according to BV’s Karu Daniels. |
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Source:
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Party Under a Full Moon
(August 27, 2010)
ZANZIBAR—My
generation of travellers grew up on stories of Thailand’s
Full Moon Parties.
In throngs we set out to the island of Koh Phangan to discover
the “party of a lifetime”. Ready to let loose with fire dancers
and other creative travellers, I was shocked to find the
opposite waiting for me. A Red Bull and booze fest reminiscent
of Spring Break throbbed on the beach, drunks peeing in the
water, en masse. |
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Source:
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- Mischa Bartkow |
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Drake Channels Sinatra for MTV’s VMAs
(August 28, 2010) *For
the promotional video for the 2010 MTV VMAs,
Drake
left his sneaks, stylish jackets, and jeans at home. Instead, he
threw on a suave suit. The video starts with the rapper in the
dressing room preparing for a live performance. |
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Source:
www.eurweb.com
- By Ricardo Hazell |
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Detroit Rap City: Blockbuster Concert Of The Summer
(September 01, 2010) DETROIT—You can finally accuse
Eminem
of understatement. “We’ve done things together,” the
Detroit rapper told interviewers when announcing his upcoming
shows with
Jay-Z.
“But I’m not sure we’ve ever done anything this big.” |
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www.thestar.com - Brian McCollum |
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Balkan Beat Box: The Lady Gaga Of Folk Revivalism
(August 30, 2010) If any band
could convert Lady Gaga fans to the sharp swagger of Balkan
brass band music, it’d be
Balkan Beat Box.
The “little monsters,” as Gaga calls her acolytes, were
impatiently waiting her arrival at this summer’s Lollapalooza
festival when Balkan Beat Box took to the stage with their
funked-up beats. The connection didn’t take long. |
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Big Boi on Tour
(August 29, 2010) *After
starting the summer off with a bang,
Big Boi
is doing it big again
with a “Son of Chico Dusty” tour to support his debut solo
album, “Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty.” |
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Source:
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NSFW Video: Cee Lo Defends F-Bomb Filled Song as ‘Art’
(August 30, 2010) *Cee
Lo’s
expletive-laden song “F*** You” has received a lot of criticism
for its use of 16 F-bombs over a soulful 3 1/2-minute throwback
groove. (Not to mention some S-words and N-words.) But the
singer/rapper says the tune is actually a work of art. |
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Source: www. eurweb.com
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I
Still Believe in Lyfe Jennings
(September 1, 2010) *I am a
Lyfe Jennings
fan; I own his albums, have seen him numerous times in concert,
follow him on Twitter, all of that. So when he announced that I
Still Believe (in stores and available for download today) was
his last album, I was really shocked that he decided to make his
exit from recording so soon. |
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www.eurweb.com - Al-Lateef Farmer |
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Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew Gets Anniversary-Package Treatment
(August 30, 2010) Last year,
as the 50th anniversary of “jazz’s greatest year” was
celebrated,
Miles Davis’s
Kind of Blue was put forth as the ne plus ultra of
improvisation, and perhaps the greatest jazz album in history. |
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Peelander-Z: Power Rangers Of Punk Return
(August 28, 2010) It’s not every day that you get to speak to a
member of an extraterrestrial
garage band. In broken English and calling from New York,
Peelander Yellow,
lead vocalist and guitarist from anime punk outfit Peelander-Z,
assures me that he comes in peace. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com
- Chandler Levack |
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Ron Isley Talks Prison, Taxes, R. Kelly, New Collabos, more
(August 30, 2010) *Ron
Isley
sat down with Vibe magazine to discuss his 37-month federal
prison sentence for tax evasion, plans for a new album featuring
the likes of Lauryn Hill, T.I. and Aretha Franklin, his
relationship with R. Kelly and more… |
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Source: www. eurweb.com
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Richard Thompson Is Still Alive And Kicking On New Disc
(August 20, 2010) “I love kittens and little babies.” Those are
the first sung lines of the new
Richard Thompson
album. My response to the singer? Who are you, and what have
done with our man Thompson, the biting lyricist who would never
be so warm and fuzzy. |
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Source:
www.globeandmail.com - Brad Wheeler |
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Hey Rude Boys And Girls, Let’s Party Like It’s 1979!
(August 29, 2010)
At the risk of sounding facile, Saturday night was indeed
something special for fans of the pioneering late-seventies
English ska band
the Specials.
The seven-piece hit-makers (whose hits were more consistently
Top of the Pops than Billboard) have almost fully reunited
for the first time since their 1981 dissolution. |
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Source:
www.globeandmail.com
- Alan Niester |
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Tom Petty Gets His Mojo On
(August 26, 2010) It is known: Anyone venturing into the bayou
had better take a mojo offering
with them. So,
Thomas Earl Petty,
who sometimes looks to the great wide open and the liberation of
free-falling but other times takes to the swamps, overjoyed a
full mass of humdrum-world escapists at the
Air Canada
Centre. |
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Source:
www.globeandmail.com
- Brad Wheeler |
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With New CD, Luke Doucet Is Off And Running
(September 1, 2010) There are no flies on
Luke Doucet.
After a long day of media interviews and appearances promoting
his just-released album (Steel City Trawler), the
songwriting singer, producer and fancy-fingered guitarist was
relaxing in Toronto on a beer-parlour patio when he rose from
his seat, announcing that he should get back to his Hamilton
home. |
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Rogers
Media Partners With Warner Music Canada: Launching Innovative
Video Advertising Initiatives
(September 1, 2010) CNW/ -
Rogers Media,
one of Canada's leading media companies, and Warner Music
Canada, a division of Warner Music Group, today announced a
multi-year partnership to sell advertising inventory around
Warner Music Canada's premium
music video content in Canada. |
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Source: Rogers Communications |
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MUSIC
TIDBITS
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Hip-Hop to Stop the Violence in NY
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Video: R. Kelly’s New Single ‘When A Woman Loves’
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Callum
Keith Rennie: A Man Of Many Faces
(August 27, 2010)
Callum
Keith Rennie’s
first big break came in 1996, when he was cast in
the
Mountie drama Due South, playing the intense,
near-sighted detective Stanley Raymond Kowalski. This time, as the
unpredictable Detective Ben Sullivan on Global’s new drama,
Shattered
– where Rennie plays a cop who just happens to juggle multiple
personalities. |
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Source:
www.globeandmail.com
- Gayle MacDonald |
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The Truth About Pat Tillman
(August 26, 2010) Towards the end of Amir Bar-Lev’s
documentary
The Tillman Story,
a
bronze statue of the former NFL football great who died while
serving with the Army Rangers in Afghanistan six years ago is
awkwardly lowered onto metal footings outside the University of
Phoenix Stadium. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com
- Linda Barnard |
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Wading Into Winnie Mandela’s World
(August 28, 2010) On the east
side of Johannesburg, a pivotal scene in the history of South
Africa is playing out. About 60 people are lined up on either
side of a prison gate, singing and dancing. As the winter sun
squints through the trees lining the drive, Nelson and
Winnie Mandela
appear, walking hand-in-hand toward the exit, their free hands
raised in a clenched-fist wave.
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Source:
www.globeandmail.com
- Clare F. Byrne, Johannesburg |
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French Director Alain Corneau Dies At 67
(August 30, 2010) PARIS —
Alain
Corneau,
the French filmmaker who leapt to international
notice with the 1991 hit Tous les Matins du Monde, has
died, his talent agency said Monday. He was 67. |
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Ally Sheedy Plays The Girl With The Jihad Tattoo
(August 27, 2010) Settled on a
suede sofa at Toronto’s Intercontinental Hotel bar,
Ally
Sheedy
is rooting through her purse. “I have to ask you if I can do the
rudest thing,” she says meekly, at last extracting and chomping
on a piece of nicotine gum. “Obama chews it. That means it’s
okay.” |
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Source:
www.globeandmail.com
- James Bradshaw |
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Shia Labeouf Gives Best Bang For The Buck
(August 31, 2010) For the second straight year, Transformers
star
Shia LaBeouf
topped a
Forbes.com list of
Hollywood’s Best Actors for the Buck,
with women claiming five of the top 10 spots compared with zero
last year. |
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Source: www. thestar.com
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The
American: A Hunter On The Run, With A Femme Fatale In His Sights
(August 31, 2010) The hunter becomes the hunted in
The American,
a Euro-style romantic suspense movie by Anton Corbijn (Control)
that suggests what would happen if James Bond took his eye off
the ball.
George Clooney
is that 007 doppelgänger, a still-formidable secret assassin
whose heart now rules his head. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com - Peter Howell |
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FILM
TIDBITS
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Tupac Biopic Gets Oscar-Nominated Screenwriters
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Bollywood Comes To Holy Land For Film About Jesus
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::ALL TV NEWS:: |
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William Shatner Tackles The Weird And Inexplicable In Weird
Or What?
(August 30, 2010)
We all know
William Shatner
is weird, and clearly he does, too.
Why else would he have been tapped to host a show called
William Shatner’s Weird or What? quips the Star Trek
icon-turned-Priceline pitchman. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com -
Cassandra Szklarski |
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The Big C Brings Laughs To A Serious Matter
(August 31, 2010) Sometimes
laughter isn't just the best medicine. For those living on
borrowed time, it's the only option remaining.
Unseemly as it sounds, the laughs come freely in the new cable
series
The Big C
(Wednesday, Super Channel, at 10 p.m.), which stars film actress
Laura Linney as a suburban wife and mother handed a terminal
cancer diagnosis. Yes, it’s a comedy. |
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Source: www. globeandmail.com - Andrew Ryan |
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Flashpoint Leads With 15 Gemini Nominations
(August 31, 2010) CTV cop drama Flashpoint once
again snared the most
Gemini Award
attention as nominations for the best in Canadian TV were
announced Tuesday.
Last year, Flashpoint led with a record 19 nominations
and went on to win six Geminis, including Best Drama, Direction
and Actor, for Enrico Colantoni. Colantoni picked up another
nomination this year but for a guest spot on Cra$h & Burn,
which got six nominations. |
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Source: www. thestar.com - Michael Oliveira |
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Jim
Parsons: Canada's Favourite Geek Enters TV Pantheon
(August 29, 2010) When
Jim Parsons
was a kid growing up in Houston, he loved television.
Sitcoms in particular; he'd spend hours in front of the set
soaking up everything from
Three's Company to
Family Ties. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com
- Bill Brioux |
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Are Three New Law Dramas Over The Legal Limit?
(August 31, 2010) There oughta be a law . . . oh wait, there is.
Wednesday nights won’t stray far from the courtroom this season,
with
three new legal
dramas
converging — all at the same time. (This does not include former
L.A. Law-yer Jimmy Smits’ new one, Outlaw, which
fortunately airs on Fridays.) |
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Source: www. thestar.com - Rob Salem |
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Fall TV Preview: Sunday, bloody Sunday
(August 29, 2010) Once upon a time, Sunday nights were ruled by
Ed Sullivan and Dinah
Shore.
The big news of the night, and indeed the whole season, is the
A-list cable drama
Boardwalk Empire
(premiering Sept. 19, 9 p.m. on HBO Canada), starring Steve
Buscemi and co-produced by Martin Scorsese and
Sopranos scribe Terence Winter. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com
- Rob Salem |
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Surfing, Sweeping, Overeating
(August 29, 2010) All you really need — or probably even want —
to know about the new
Hawaii Five-O (premiering Sept. 20, 10 p.m. on CBS and
Global) is what they’ve done with that iconic theme.
You can relax, Danno. They haven’t changed a thing. Though it
wasn’t for lack of trying. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com
- Rob Salem |
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TV
TIDBITS
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Conan O'Brien Names His New Show ‘Conan’
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Doc: The Gut-Wrenching Story Of A Workaholic’s Wife
(August 27, 2010) Sharon Pollock has contributed several
impressive plays to the canon of
Canadian theatre but none, in my book, as powerful and
gut-wrenching as
Doc.
First produced in 1984, Doc has been revived by
Soulpepper at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com
- Robert Crew |
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A Day In The Life Of A Theatre
(August 27, 2010) In addition to
the actors (and understudies) and musicians on stage for the
Royal Alexandra’s
latest show, Rock of Ages, toss in the musical director, the
production stage manager, the stage manager and staff, including
dressers who perform rapid-fire costume changes during the
performance backstage, the sound and lighting crews, the head of wardrobe, the
wigs mistress and the props master. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com
- Bruce DeMara, Ashante Infantry, and Raju Mudhar |
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3 Shaw Plays Planned For 2011 Festival
(August 30, 2010) What’s playing at Niagara-on-the-Lake?
Thanks to my
Shaw Festival
mole, Agent Fudge, I’ve been gradually leaking the 2011 Shaw
season, which the management has been slow to reveal.
So far, we’ve shone the spotlight on My Fair Lady, Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof, The Admirable Crichton and
Maria Severa. |
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Mirvish Offers A Home To Theatre Museum
(August 30, 2010)
Monday was the loveliest night of the year for theatre boosters
basking in the
hilltop garden of philanthropist Nona Macdonald Heaslip.
The hostess is one of the key supporters of the long homeless
Canadian Theatre Museum. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com -
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Can the iPad save Spider-Man?
(August 28, 2010) This
weekend, nerd nation descends on Toronto for
FanExpo.
This is
where hardcore gamers in Atari Ts mingle with ladies in their
skimpiest animé outfits and toddlers dressed as ewoks. And where
fanboys and girls line up for autographs from cult heroes
ranging from Batman’s Adam West to Buffy the Vampire
Slayer’s James Marsters. |
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Source:
www.globeandmail.com
- Joshua Ostroff |
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Katy Perry Gets Her Revenge
(August 27, 2010) Whether you’re a “California Gurl” or simply
“One of the Boys,” fans of pop
queen
Katy Perry
can now interact with her music in
Katy Perry Revenge,
the latest in the Tap Tap Revenge franchise from Tapulous
(now owned by Disney Mobile). |
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Source:
www.thestar.com
- Marc Saltzman |
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New Centennial College Course Covers The ‘Wild West’ World Of
Producing Webisodes
(August 26, 2010) That will be music to the ears of comedy scriptwriter Kyle Muir,
who is launching a new program at
Centennial College
teaching people how to make their own webisodes — those mini TV
shows that have stormed the Web and garnered huge audiences.
Webisodes can be watched online or downloaded to your computer. |
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Source:
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- Paul Dalby |
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TECHNOLOGY
TIDBITS
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Microsoft raising price of Xbox Live Gold
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Novel Direction For Ken Finkleman
(August 28, 2010)
Ken Finkleman,
the Toronto writer, director and actor best known as the
mastermind
behind the classic CBC TV series The Newsroom, freely
admits his debut novel Noah’s Turn is more than a little
indebted to Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. But he
insists at the same time that any resemblance to Martin Amis’s
The Information is purely coincidental. |
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Archie And The Gang Welcome First Gay Character
(August 20, 2010) Riverdale
hasn’t seen anything like this before.
In an issue of
Veronica,
a spinoff of Archie comics hitting stands on Wednesday,
Archie and the gang will welcome the first openly gay character
in the series’ 69-year history. |
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www.globeandmail.com - Dave McGinn |
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Jonathan Franzen On Fiction, Fame And Freedom
(August 27, 2010) In the realm
of what he calls “the digital junk stream,” American writer
Jonathan Franzen,
51, is still best known for dissing Oprah Winfrey’s book club
almost a decade ago, leading the great tastemaker to cancel a
planned television appearance in which Franzen had hoped to
promote his third novel, The Corrections.
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Argos Cough Up A Furball Against Ticats
(August 20, 2010) The
Toronto Argonauts
have prided themselves on avoiding mistakes in
their return to respectability this season.
After Friday night’s showdown against the rival Hamilton
Tiger-Cats, they may have to go back to the drawing board. |
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www.thestar.com - Chris Zelkovich |
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Canada Looks To Future After Elimination At Basketball Worlds
(September 01, 2010) Canada's Joel Anthony, left back, leaps to
the net as New Zealand's
Mika Vukona, left, scores next to teammate Thomas Abercrombie
during a preliminary round match between Canada and New Zealand
at the
FIBA World Basketball Championships
in Izmir, Turkey, Sept. 1, 2010. Canada was eliminated with the
loss. |
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www.thestar.com - Doug Smith |
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St-Pierre to defend UFC title against Koscheck Dec. 11
(August 31, 2010)
Georges St-Pierre
will defend his UFC welterweight title against American
Josh Koscheck on Dec. 11 in his hometown of Montreal.
UFC president Dana White confirmed the news to The Canadian
Press. |
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Scotty Pippen is Getting a Statue
(August 27, 2010) *Perhaps it’s been a long time
coming for him, but an NBA legend is finally getting the
recognition he deserves.
The Chicago Bulls have plans to unveil a bronze statue of Hall
of Famer
Scottie Pippen
that will be displayed permanently in the United Center at some
point towards the end of the 2010-11 season. |
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SPORTS
TIDBITS
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Hamilton Changes Course On Pan Am Stadium Project
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Cancer In Remission, Mandi Set For Treatment
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Canadian Stuns No. 30 at U.S. Open
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Better Butt Diet: Super 6-Week Plan
I’ve designed a simple and effective six-week plan to steer you
in the direction, toward a
smaller and tighter butt.
I can’t create miracles in six weeks, but I can provide a
realistic starting point.
Let’s begin with a reality check. You can’t get a good-looking
butt if you have excessive body fat. I’m not suggesting that you
have to attain a perfect body to get a good-looking butt;
after all, we need to respect different shapes, forms and
genetic structures. However, don’t expect to have great glutes
with excessive body fat. |
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By Raphael Calzadilla, BA, CPT, ACE, RTS1, eDiets Chief Fitness
Pro |
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Motivational Note
"True
compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling
of responsibility. A truly compassionate attitude toward others
does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you."
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Source:
His Holiness
the Dalai lama |
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Have a great week!
Dawn
Langfield
Langfield
Entertainment
www.langfieldentertainment.com
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