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Actors bring star power to Senate to fight Bill C-10
Oscar-nominated actor/writer testifies before Senate committee about tax-credit legislation proposed for TV and film industry
Canadian stars take fight against Bill C-10 to Ottawa
Members of Canada's film and TV industry are in Ottawa to voice concerns over measures that give the federal government the power to deny tax credits to productions it considers offensive.
It's Time to Start Thinking About Cutting Our Losses
A couple of years ago our local paper asked former Toronto mayor John Sewell to come to Kitchener and say what he thought should be done to improve the downtown (a seedy strip of pawn shops and dance clubs that has resisted years of upgrade attempts). The comment I recall the clearest was about the Waterloo Regional Children's Museum. Sewell said it was a mistake and will be a drain on the city for years to come.The Children's Museum is a spectacular failure and recent moves to turn it around will probably only increase the drain on city resources.The museum has an unfortunate history.
Masterminds, maniacal villains and magnificent bastards
The anarchic spirit of cinema in the late 60's early 70's found expression in stories of malcontents, clowns and rogues. Most were characters rebelling from within the system, or diminishing it's power by simply making it look ridiculous. Altman's M.A.S.H. is a perfect example.But a strange mutant strain of movies celebrating the master criminal is part of the same movement. Films about the villain who regards the status quo as his hunting ground and the traditional heroes of police and government as prey became a mini-movement, creating some spectacularly strange film classics.The Assassination Bureau featured a suavely dangerous young Oliver Reed as the leader of an international band of assassins with a bizarrely moral belief in the redemptive power of murder.
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