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January 17, 2008
The year is just rolling along and the entertainment
news is just pouring in! There is just tons of news, deaths, drama,
strikes, etc. So please take your time and have a look.
And check out my friend, Marshall Tully
of Full Blast Studio, in the
FITNESS section! Talk about
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::ALL TOP STORIES:: |
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 Dusty Cohl, 78: Toronto Film Festival Co-Founder
(January 12, 2008) The Toronto International Film Festival will
never be the same, because
Dusty
Cohl won't
be there holding court non-stop for 10 days with his trademark
black cowboy hat, premium cigars, salt-and-pepper beard and
Cheshire-cat grin.
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Martin Knelman, Entertainment Columnist |
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Musical Stars Come Out To Sing Oscar's Praises
(January 13, 2008)
Oscar Peterson
was recognized all over the world as one of the giants of jazz,
but from time to time he let it be known that he felt somewhat
neglected at home, possibly even taken for granted. Yesterday,
that stigma was gloriously removed once
and for all with a classy,
highly emotional, star-studded tribute at Roy
Thomson Hall. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Martin Knelman |
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 Major Studios Cancel TV Writers' Contracts
(January 15, 2008) LOS ANGELES — Four major
studios have cancelled dozens of
contracts with writers in a possible indication that
the
current television season cannot be saved, the Los Angeles Times
reported Tuesday. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - The Associated Press |
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 EMI To Slash Workforce Amid Restructuring
(January 15, 2008) LONDON – The new owners of music
label
EMI Group
– home of the Rolling Stones, Coldplay and the Spice Girls
– said Tuesday they plan to cut up to 2,000 jobs, or just over a
third of the firm's workforce. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Jill Lawless, The Associated Press |
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New Diva On The Block - Sassy Soprano Measha Brueggergosman
(January
16, 2008)
IT’S NOT EVERYDAY you meet an illustrious soprano who loves
singing Justin Timberlake songs in her bathroom.
But,
hey, that’s just
Measha.
“It’s music that makes you want to shake your money- maker,” she
says, laughing. |
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Excerpt from
www.swaymag.ca -
By Simona Siad |
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Brad Renfro, 25: Former Child Actor
(January 16, 2008) LOS ANGELES —
Brad Renfro
was a street-smart Tennessee schoolboy plucked from obscurity in
1993 to
play the title role in
The Client.
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Jacob Adelman, The Associated Press |
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::ALL MUSIC NEWS:: |
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Celine's New Day
(January 12, 2008) LONDON —
Celine Dion
has sold 200 million records worldwide, making her the
best-selling female singer ever. The mystery is, who exactly
buys her music? She doesn't have quite the right shoes to be a
fully
fledged gay icon, and she certainly doesn't have a teen market. |
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Excerpt from
www.globeandmail.com - Chrissy Iley |
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Jazz World Salutes Its Masters
(January 12, 2008) It may have been the most important night of
the year in the world of jazz, but glitz, glamour and general
hoopla took a backseat to a love of music last night at the
Metro Toronto Convention Centre. A couple of thousand delegates
to the 35th annual
International Association for Jazz
Education conference – the first to be held in
Toronto.
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - John Terauds, Toronto Star |
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Steroid Accusations Inevitable?
(January 16, 2008) When news surfaced over the weekend that
50 Cent, Wyclef Jean, Timbaland
and other rap stars had been
implicated in a steroids investigation, some hip-hop fans were
shocked, but to many in the industry the accusations seemed
inevitable. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - New York Times News Service |
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Meet Uné, R& B Soul Artist: He's Got The Gift Of 'It.'
(January 14, 2008)
"IT," the commonly
overused word in the entertainment industry typically referring
to an entertainer is an intangible gift which was intended to be
reserved for the few who's talents will transcend and stand the
test of
time.
Unlike
the majority of examples the label has been attached to
UNÉ
(pronounced you-nay). |
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Excerpt from
www.eurweb.com -
By Chris Bythewood |
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Janet Jackson Hopes 'Discipline' Will Turn Tide
(January 14, 2008)
*Janet
Jackson spoke at length to
Billboard recently about her forthcoming album "Discipline,"
which marks her 10th disc overall and her first for Island
Def Jam
following more than a decade at Virgin Records. |
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Excerpt from
www.eurweb.com |
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A Dream Come True For Buble
(January 14, 2008) VANCOUVER —
It's barely been a decade since
Michael Buble
was working as a lounge singer at Babalu - a tiny
downtown Vancouver bar that was destroyed by fire in 2001 and is
now an Irish pub. |
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Excerpt from
www.globenandmail.com - Jennifer Van Evra |
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Radiohead Heading To Toronto
(January 10, 2008) Maybe the boys were just waiting to
see which cities actually bought hard copies of In Rainbows,
but
Radiohead
has announced the towns that it will visit on its
forthcoming
North American tour and, yes, Toronto is on the list. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Ben Rayner, Staff Reporter |
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Tierney Sutton Stumbles On Happiness
(January 11, 2008) She doesn't get to Toronto very often,
but
Tierney Sutton's
making the most of this visit. The Wisconsin-born,
California-based vocalist, whose band is nominated for Best Jazz
Vocal Album at the
upcoming Grammy Awards, performed at the Old Mill Inn last
night. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Ashante Infantry, Pop & Jazz Critic |
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Taylor Swift: Country Music's Rising Star: Country Music's
Rising Star
(January 12, 2008) At the tender age of 14,
Taylor Swift's first
after-school job was writing songs for Sony Publishing in
downtown Nashville. Last year, Swift had not yet achieved
the age of majority when she won the Horizon
Award from
the Country Music Association – an honour for up-and-coming artists
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Bruce Demara, Entertainment Reporter |
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Hayden The Master Of His Music-Making House
(January 14, 2008) It seems like a lot of extra work for a
solitary studio dweller like Hayden to labour for months chasing
an elusive full-band
sound when he could have easily dialled
up an
actual
band at any point, but that's where the
guy's heart is: in the work. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Ben Rayner, Pop Music Critic |
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Classical Music Mixes Well With The Cool Club Crowd
(January 16, 2008) I keep hoping the current trend in
Europe to present classical music in pubs, lounges and clubs is
going to catch
on here.
Perhaps
the full house at
Monday's
Network Winds
concert at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom was a promising sign. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - John Terauds, Classical Music Critic |
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Canadian Opera Company Unveils Line-up
(January 16, 2008) Although
Canadian Opera Company
general director Richard Bradshaw died in August, most of the
2009-10 season
unveiled yesterday clearly bears his imprint. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - John Terauds, Classical Music Critic |
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 MUSIC
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Berry Gordy To Receive Recording Academy Honour |
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Dupri: Usher 'Itching' To Release New CD |
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Cassie Grows Up On Sophomore Album |
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Canucks Up For Brit Awards |
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Rev Run Signs Record Deal With U.K. Indie Label |
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::ALL FILM NEWS:: |
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Away From Her Win Improves Chances For Oscar Nom
(January 15, 2008) Sarah Polley
says she finds the whole experience of racking up successive
awards for her film
Away From Her
"strange" and more than a little surreal. |
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Excerpt from
www.globeandmail.com - Gayle Macdonald |
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Jurnee Smollet & Denzel Whitaker: The Great Debaters
Interview With Kam Williams
(January 11, 2008) *In The Great Debaters,
Jurnee
Smollett and Denzel Whitaker more than hold their own
opposite a couple of Academy Award-winners in Denzel Washington
and Forest
Whitaker. These accomplished
young stars
deliver powerful performances
who
won the national championship.
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Excerpt from
www.eurweb.com
- by Kam Williams |
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Stardom Fades, But Cement Lives On
(January 11, 2008) HOLLYWOOD–Charlie Chaplin was a travesty.
Audrey Hepburn was a mystery. I normally wouldn't bend any brain
cells pondering something as inconsequential and vaguely tacky
as the placement of
celebrity hands and
footprints in the cement
slabs fronting
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
on Hollywood Blvd. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Peter Howell |
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Hollywood's 'Mayor' Johnny Grant Dead At 84
(January 10, 2008) LOS ANGELES–Johnny
Grant,
the
avuncular honorary mayor of Hollywood who travelled the world as
Tinseltown's No. 1 cheerleader for more than a half-century, has
died.
He was 84. Grant
died
just before 7 p.m. Wednesday, apparently of natural causes, said
Officer Jason Lee. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Jeff Wilson, The Associated Press |
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Alliance Films Gets New Canadian Partner
(January 13, 2008) The Canadian
partner who stepped in last summer to help
Goldman Sachs Group
Inc. [GS-N] meet
foreign ownership requirements on its purchase of Canada's
largest film distributor,
Alliance Films Inc.,
has pulled out of the investment. |
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Excerpt from
www.globenandmail.com - Grant Robertson And Gayle Macdonald |
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Complete List Of Announced Golden Globe Winners
(January 13, 2008) Complete list of winners of the 65th annual
Golden Globes announced Sunday at a news conference held by the
Hollywood
Foreign Press Association in Beverly Hills, Calif. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com |
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Khanjian Really Wants To Do Comedy
(January 11, 2008) Film and theatre actress
Arsinée
Khanjian is married to Atom Egoyan, an acclaimed
director who has cast her in every
feature film he has ever
made, stretching back to 1984's Next of Kin. |
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Excerpt from
www.globeandmail.com - Brad Wheeler |
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The Naked Truth About Frank Langella
(January 15, 2008) There's an old-world, old-school quality to
Frank Langella
that he shares with his character Leonard Schiller
in the
movie
Starting Out in the Evening,
which opens Friday. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Susan Walker, Entertainment Reporter |
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Academy Insists Oscars Will Proceed
(January 16, 2008) NEW YORK — If a tree falls during this
year's
Oscar ceremony,
will anybody outside Hollywood hear it? Even
though this year's Golden Globes ceremony was
cancelled, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said
yesterday that the Oscars will go forward next month as planned. |
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Excerpt from
www.globeandmail.com - Simon Houpt |
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Rock Garden: A Love Story Screens At Slamdance 2008
(January 14, 2008 - Toronto)
Rock Garden: A Love Story
directed by award-winning filmmaker
Gloria U.Y. Kim
will screen during
the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival, January 17-25 in Park City,
Utah. |
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FILM
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Awards Could Get Strike Perks |
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ACTRA Toronto Unveils Slate Of Awards Nominees |
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Gary Dourdan Stars In Biopic Of 'Soledad Brother' |
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Gosling To Play Cobain In Biopic, Says Newspaper |
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Michael Clarke Duncan Catches 'Salmon' |
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 Introducing The Oprah Winfrey Network
(January
16, 2008)
*She can not be stopped.
Oprah Winfrey
has announced that she will launch her own television network
through a 50-50 partnership with Discovery Communications
to be titled the Oprah Winfrey Network, or
OWN. |
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Excerpt from
www.eurweb.com |
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Reality TV: When The Tube Talks Back
(January 10, 2008) LAS VEGAS — “TV, I want to watch that
Tom Cruise movie from the 1980s, you know, the one with all the
fighter jets?”
One day that will be all a television needs to know to
understand that a viewer wants to watch Top Gun.
Electronics companies
are changing the way people interact with technology. |
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Excerpt from
www.globeandmail.com - Matt Hartley |
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Swimming Biopic On Victor Davis Has Golden Touch
(January 12, 2008) Alex Baumann and Victor Davis were fast
friends and the greatest one-two swimming combo Canada's ever
had. At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Baumann won two gold
medals in world record time, while Davis broke a world record
while capturing gold and silver. Baumann, who returned to Canada
from Australia last year to head up this country's
Summer
Olympic program, wrote this guest column for the Star on the CBC-TV
movie Victor: The Victor
Davis Story. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Bruce Demara, Entertainment Reporter |
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Take Cover! American Idol Season 7 Starts Tonight
(January 15, 2008) It is the television equivalent of an
invading army.
Eager
to once again occupy the popular culture in this, a winter of
Hollywood discontent,
American Idol
(Fox, CTV, 8 tonight) returns for its seventh season with a
revamped battle plan, a new brigade of fame-seeking
soldiers, a mixed arsenal of aural bunker busters and the
familiar faces we’ve come to know and mock in central command. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Vinay Menon |
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Martin Clunes Hits It Big With Doc Martin
(January 12, 2008) Vision-TV viewers were witness Wednesday
night to the sight of a man aging almost 25 years in the space
of one hour.
As unsettling as that might have been to us, imagine the
effect
on the man in question, British actor
Martin Clunes. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Rob Salem, Television Critic |
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TV TIDBITS
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Mario Van Peebles Heads To Pine Valley
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::ALL THEATRE NEWS:: |
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Canadian Playwright Anita Majumdar Takes On Honour Killings
(January 16, 2008) VANCOUVER — If artists must suffer for their
art, playwright/actor/dancer
Anita Majumdar did her suffering at school, growing
up in Port Moody, B.C., east of Vancouver. One
of very few non-white children in the small city in the 1980s,
she was teased relentlessly |
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Excerpt from
www.globeandmail.com -
Marsha Lederman |
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Theatre Of War Coming To Toronto
(January 12, 2008) It may have taken five years, but the war in
Iraq has finally reached the stages of Toronto.
When the Canadian Stage production of Judith Thompson's opens
Palace of the End
next Thursday, it will usher in an exciting six-month
period during which three plays dealing with political conflict
in the Middle East will be on view in our local theatres. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Richard Ouzounian, Theatre Critic |
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Soulpepper Basks In Moonlight
(January 11, 2008) Two young lovers beneath a
Newfoundland moon. David French's lyrical
Salt-Water Moon
has been weaving its gentle
magic somewhere in the world almost
constantly since its debut in 1985. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Robert Crew, Toronto Star |
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 'Rent' Reportedly Closing After 12-Year Broadway Run
(January 16, 2008) NEW YORK –
Rent,
the acclaimed musical chronicle of counterculture life and death
in Manhattan's East Village,
will
close in June after more than a dozen years on Broadway, a
newspaper reported Wednesday. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - The Associated Press |
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Othello A Stunner Of A Show
(January 16, 2008) LONDON–Have you ever heard an entire audience
hold its breath?
That takes place twice during the stunning production of
Othello
now playing at the Donmar Warehouse.
The first time is when
Ewan McGregor's
quietly malevolent Iago is convincing Chiwetel Ejiofor's
tragically malleable Othello that his wife, Desdemona, is
unfaithful. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Richard Ouzounian, Theatre Critic |
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THEATRE TIDBITS
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Actor Founded Theatre School
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Dame Edna Cancels Tour After Surgery
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A Pinch Of Politics In Parties' Programs
(January 11, 2008) For those with an awareness of the
Chinese government hostility to the Falun Gong movement, the
Chinese New Year
Spectacular
is not just a pretty pageant.
Coming to the Sony Centre Friday for five performances over
the weekend, the music and dance show is
billed as a showcase of "the true traditional Chinese culture devoid of
any elements of the Chinese communism." |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Susan Walker, Dance Writer |
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 Marjane Satrapi - The Voice Of An Iranian Generation
(January 11, 2008)
Marjane Satrapi
needed a cigarette.
Everything else she had to lug with her to the interview – all
the praise for her graphic novel-style memoirs and film,
Persepolis, the acclaim she has received as
being the voice of ordinary Iranians, of Iran's exiled and
suppressed – she didn't need at that moment. |
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Excerpt from
www.globeandmail.com -
Guy Dixon |
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::ALL SPORTS NEWS:: |
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It's Bolts, Not Colts In AFC Final
(January 14, 2008)
Super Bowl LXII
is back on schedule. Okay, it always was on the calendar for
Feb.3. But everyone and his brother understood that the "real"
championship would be decided in the American Conference title
game, when the
New England Patriots
met the
Indianapolis Colts. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Garth Woolsey |
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Argonauts Sign Their Top Draft Pick Maranda To Multi-Year
Contract
(January 15, 2008) The Argonauts still haven't heard from Mike
O'Shea as to whether he is ready to call it a career.
So
for the past
couple of years, they have been hunting for potential
replacements.
Eric Maranda
can now be formally added to that list of candidates. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Rick Matsumoto, Sports Reporter |
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Ferguson's Days Numbered
(January 15, 2008) The
Maple Leafs,
adopting a bunker mentality in the corporate office and in the
dressing room, are quietly working on a
succession plan to replace general manager
John Ferguson. |
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Excerpt from
www.thestar.com - Paul Hunter, Sports Reporter |
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SPORTS
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Raptors' Bosh named NBA Eastern Conference Player Of The Week
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::TRAVEL:: |
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 Grenada: A Blue Sky Holiday
It can be tricky getting there but ask anyone
who has been, and you’ll hear Grenada
is well worth the effort.
Dubbed the Spice Island,
the rolling
mountainous land perfumed by
fragrant spice trees is
a model of recovery following the swift and efficient rebuilding
after Hurricane Ivan in 2004.
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 Get on Your Bikes and Ride
I came into this iron thing rather late in life. I'd never
enjoyed sports, always ate like crap, and thought that people
who hung out in gyms were generally idiots. Towards the tail end
of my twenties, and through a long and very surreal sequence of
events which shall be shared at a later
date,
I ended up getting into weight training. I was skinny and
laughably weak, but I fell in love with it immediately. |
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Source: Marshall Tully,
www.fullblast.ca
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::MOTIVATION:: |
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 Motivational Note
"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler;
solitude will not be solitude,
poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness." |
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Excerpt from
www.eurweb.com - Henry David Thoreau: 19th century American
essayist, poet, and philosopher |
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Have a great week!
Dawn
Langfield
Langfield
Entertainment
www.langfieldentertainment.com
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