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List of Canadian Screen Awards winners in top film categories
By The Canadian Press on April 13th, 2023
The Canadian Screen Awards celebrated the best in homegrown film Thursday night. A look at some of the winners: Best motion picture – “Brother” Achievement in direction – Clement Virgo, “Brother” Performance in a leading role – Lamar Johnson, “Brother” Performance in a supporting role – Aaron Pierre, “Brother” Adapted screenplay – Clement Virgo, “Brother” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Clement Virgo’s film ‘Brother’ wins a record 12 Canadian Screen Awards
By Noel Ransome and Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press on April 13th, 2023
TORONTO – Clement Virgo’s deeply personal film about Black boyhood dominated the Canadian Screen Awards Thursday as members of the entertainment scene gathered for the first in-person festivities in four years. “Brother,” a Scarborough, Ont.-set coming-of-age tale, nabbed a record 12 awards, including three with Virgo’s name on them: best motion picture, best-adapted screenplay, and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian Screen Awards kick off first film gala in 4 years with ‘Brother’ in the lead
By Noel Ransome, The Canadian Press on April 13th, 2023
TORONTO – Canadian film stars gathered in person for the first time in four years at a Canadian Screen Awards gala Thursday evening, where Clement Virgo’s “Brother” was in the lead with 14 nominations. Virgo’s coming-of-age feature about two Jamaican-Canadian brothers was up for awards including best direction, best motion picture, and best-adapted Screenplay. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Biden taps Gaga, Clooney, Garner, others for arts committee
By The Associated Press on April 13th, 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House on Thursday announced a star-studded slate of members for the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, a panel of artists, museum professionals, academics and philanthropists that serves as an advisory board to President Joe Biden on culture issues. The group will be co-chaired by Bruce Cohen, an ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Threats to dictionary publisher land man a year in prison
By Mark Pratt, The Associated Press on April 13th, 2023
A California man who made violent anti-LGBTQ-related threats against dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster Inc. over its updated gender definitions was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison. The sentence imposed on Jeremy Hanson, 35, by a federal court in Massachusetts also included 30 days of home confinement, three years of probation and mental health treatment. Hanson ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Anne Perry, crime writer with a murderous past, dead at 84
By The Associated Press on April 13th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Anne Perry, the best-selling crime novelist known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk detective series and for her own murderous past that inspired the movie “Heavenly Creatures,” has died at age 84. Perry died Monday in Los Angeles from complications of a stroke and several heart attacks, according to her ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In ‘Florida Man,’ Edgar Ramirez ‘has fun with’ popular meme
By Alicia Rancilio, The Associated Press on April 13th, 2023
Edgar Ramirez says his new series “Florida Man,” now on Netflix, may share a name with the popular meme of the same name, but it is not making fun of the state or its residents. “It does not make fun of that, it has fun with it, which is completely different,” said Ramirez in an ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Poilievre’s pitch to defund CBC, keep French services would require change in law
By Stephanie Taylor, The Canadian Press on April 13th, 2023
OTTAWA – If Pierre Poilievre wants to “defund the CBC” while maintaining its French-language programming, he’ll have to overhaul the country’s broadcasting law in order to do it. That’s according to the corporation, which has found itself in a back-and-forth with the Opposition leader over his pledge to cut the roughly $1-billion in taxpayer dollars ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Bill Hader gets deep on human nature in ‘Barry’ final season
By Krysta Fauria, The Associated Press on April 13th, 2023
LOS ANGELES (AP) – “In every man, of course, a demon lies hidden – the demon of rage,” says the intellectual brother, Ivan, in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov,” a theme to which the Russian novelist frequently returns. It is also a theme central to the HBO series, “Barry,” whose fourth and final season premieres ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Scorsese waltzes with David Johansen in ‘Personality Crisis’
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press on April 13th, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) – Martin Scorsese was knee-deep in preparation for “Killers of the Flower Moon” when Mara Hennessey reached out to invite him to see David Johansen. The former frontman for the trailblazing 1970s proto-punk band the New York Dolls – and Hennessey’s husband – was performing a new show at the Café Carlyle. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Actor Drake Bell found safe after being declared missing
By The Associated Press on April 13th, 2023
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Jared “Drake” Bell, an actor best known as a star of the Nickelodeon television show “Drake & Josh,” was found safe on Thursday, hours after authorities in Florida said he was “missing and endangered.” Bell was in touch with police officers and wasn’t in danger, Daytona Beach Police Department spokesman ... Read More »
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