Today my son skated the season’s first 8:15 – 9:15 hockey practice. I knew it went well when he came off the ice smiling and asked if it had only lasted twenty minutes. What a change from last year, when I found just putting on his equipment challenging. “Are your skates too tight? Too loose? […]
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One of my favorite short story collections is Tom King’s A Short History of Indians in Canada: Stories. I have admired King since listening to his Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour on CBC radio. He explores the truth of our shared experiences to make us laugh, and ache. The first story in the collection, in
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— If you make something passionate and personal enough, it can be somebody’s favorite movie.(Christine Vachon, Producer: Infamous, Hedwid and the Angry Inch…) This quote was made at a Q&A for Velvet Goldmine and it’s one of my favorites from the Film Festival. Vachon could have presented any of the arm-long list of films to
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This year Word on the Street was so big that I ran out of time before I got to the children’s and SF vendors. Too bad for my husband and son. Usually I bring home goodies for them – that is if I don’t bring them along. One reason I was rushed is that this
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Word on the Street Toronto is being held Sunday September 24 from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. The link to find out more information is: http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/toronto.php It’s a reading smorgasboard with readings, author signings, live music, food and entertainment for the kids. There are specialty displays on every kind of publishing and writing you can
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Telling It by Anne Frank (ed.) Alternative Scriptwriting: Writing Beyond the Rules by Ken Dancyger & Jeff Rush Feature Filmmaking at Used Car Prices by Rick Schmidt Screenplay by Syd Field Writing the Second Act by Michael Halperin Lew Hunter’s Screenwriting 434 by (you guessed it) Lew Hunter Television and Screen Writing by Richard Blum
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I don’t like women’s magazines anymore. Read a woman’s magazine and you will be told what to do. First, you need lots and lots of advice: You need to wear more stylish clothes, work out more, cook healthier meals. Your house needs redoing in the current décor and most of all, you need to buy
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Today I saw Legends starring Joan Collins and Linda Evans. I don’t expect the Mirvish subscription series to be edgy but it generally provides quality entertainment. As usual, the sets were lovely, the costumes professional. Today’s play, unfortunately, was boring. The jokes blunt; the repartee, tired. To be fair, the script was more to blame
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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart begins with the type of premise I love. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard are transported, at the moment of the first nuclear test, to contemporary New Mexico. They are discovered by a librarian, Ann, who at first refuses to believe she has seen “dead physicists.” Lydia Millet’s
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