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Q&A: Ian McKellen is his own harshest critic as he discusses his stage fall and new thriller
By Hilary Fox, The Associated Press on September 2nd, 2024
LONDON (AP) – Ian McKellen is listening to his inner critic. It’s beating him up for not finishing out his latest theater role after he fell off the stage during a June performance of “Player Kings” and spent three nights in the hospital. “Emotionally, I feel guilty and ashamed, you know, quite irrational because it ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Five Canadian titles to look out for at the Toronto International Film Festival
By Alex Nino Gheciu and David Friend, The Canadian Press on September 2nd, 2024
TORONTO – A sex-work comedy, a Tragically Hip documentary and a wartime family drama are among the Canadian titles premiering at the 49th annual Toronto International Film Festival. After Hollywood strikes dampened last year’s event, the festival returns Thursday with 59 homegrown films from established and emerging directors. The Canadian Press caught up with five ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Q&A: Author Clare Hammond reveals how railways made and broke Myanmar
By Sam Harshbarger, The Associated Press on September 1st, 2024
BANGKOK (AP) – For three months in 2016, a British journalist working in Myanmar traveled across the Southeast Asian country on trains with a mission to find out where they led, who built them, and why. Clare Hammond arrived in Myanmar during a period of hope amid a transition to civilian rule, as Aung San ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore attend Venice Film Festival with Almodóvar film
By Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press on September 1st, 2024
VENICE, Italy (AP) – Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar returns to the Venice Film Festival with stars Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, Monday. “The Room Next Door” will have its world premiere on the Lido in the evening. Though a new Almodóvar film is always an event for cinephiles, this one has special significance: It’s his ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Investigative journalist Stevie Cameron dies at home in Toronto, age 80
By The Canadian Press on September 1st, 2024
TORONTO – An investigative journalist who authored books that tackled topics ranging from a prime minister’s involvement in jet purchases to the murders of women on a British Columbia pig farm has died. Stevie Cameron died Saturday at home in Toronto from Parkinson’s, her daughter Amy Cameron said, noting her mother also had dementia. She ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Deadpool’ tops charts yet again as ‘Reagan’ beats expectations on sluggish Labor Day weekend
By Kaitlyn Huamani, The Associated Press on September 1st, 2024
Just like in the movies, Deadpool can’t be killed. “Deadpool & Wolverine,” one of the defining movies of the summer, ruled the box office on a weekend with quiet openings and low theater attendance as the summer movie season came to an anticlimactic close. For the second weekend in a row, “Deadpool & Wolverine,” Marvel’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘I just called him Daddy’: Family of Calgary’s Buck Shot share favourite memories
By Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press on September 1st, 2024
CALGARY – Brenda Barge did what other kids in southern Alberta did in the 1960s: rush home at noon to watch “The Buck Shot Show” on TV. “I just called him Daddy. He was always Daddy to me,” Barge said in an interview, along with her older brother, at the home where they grew up ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nostalgia for ‘a mythical past’: why Gen Z loves the old-school digicam
By Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press on September 1st, 2024
TORONTO – The photos are grainy, poorly lit or pixelated. The flash has washed out the subjects or illuminated only a portion of the scene. There may be a tiny orange time stamp in the bottom right-hand corner. But the photographers don’t mind; it’s what they’re going for, said 20-year-old Anya Chigak. “It captures the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Venice Film Festival welcomes Pitt and Clooney, and their new film ‘Wolfs’
By Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press on August 31st, 2024
VENICE, Italy (AP) – George Clooney and Brad Pitt are returning to the Venice Film Festival Sunday for the world premiere of “Wolfs.” In the crime-thriller directed by Jon Watts, the two Hollywood stars play lone wolf fixers mistakenly hired for the same job to cover up a crime. The film, which is not in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hip-hop artist Fatman Scoop dies at 53 after collapsing on stage in Connecticut
By Jennifer Peltz, The Associated Press on August 31st, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Fatman Scoop, the hip-hop artist who topped charts in Europe with “Be Faithful” in the early 2000s and later lent his distinctive voice and ebullient vibe to hits by artists including Missy Elliott and Ciara, died after collapsing on stage at a show in Connecticut, according to officials and his family. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pilot declared emergency, loss of autopilot before crash that killed 3 members of famed gospel group
By The Associated Press on August 31st, 2024
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – The pilot of a plane that crashed in northeast Wyoming in July, killing seven people, declared an emergency and loss of the autopilot shortly before the incident that claimed the lives of three members of the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame quartet The Nelons. The preliminary report released this week ... Read More »
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