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...seeing My Winnipeg, all I knew about the city was that Maddin came from it. After seeing (and adoring) the movie, I'm still not sure how much of it is verifiably true. A ramble through Google tells me that, as the film tells us, Winnipeg did have a huge department store, Eaton's, where the locals did most of their shopping, and an iconic hockey venue, the Winnipeg Arena, home of the Maroons in the Senior Hockey League and the Jets of the NHL; both these historic sites have been razed. In 1942 the city really did hold...
This week's hot Hollywood couple, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, danced briefly but divinely last night at a beyond-posh Toronto Film Festival party co-sponsored by TIME magazine. Across the way in the huge Design Exchange room, once home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, George Clooney stood in a corner, pinned by the admiration of other, less famous swells. If the three eminences had come there to schmooze with a TIME movie critic, they missed their big chance. Even so, they seemed as happy as celebrities ought to be, given their privileged status in our bi-national movie...
...propose we rehabilitate the name. Fifty years from now, Edsel--derived from the Old German Adal, meaning "noble"--should bring to mind not the failed car but the decent man whose legacy fell under the huge chrome wheels of consumer culture on its first reckless laps...
...minority religious community in a mainly Hindu society, Mother Teresa suffered a great deal in her personal life as God prepared her to work among other suffering people. No wonder she felt spiritually obscure, lonely and abandoned by God. Yet in fact God supported her so much that a huge number of Indian Catholic girls soon followed in her footsteps, taking her mission to a wide section of humanity. Clera Deb, Sydney...
...even though both teams were scoreless at halftime. Harvard outshot the Wildcats, 9-6, though, in the pivotal second period, and it was the 7-6 Crimson advantage in penalty corners that ended up pushing the game in Harvard’s favor. “This was a huge team win,” captain Jana Berglund said about the 250th victory in team history. “We had a great showing from our freshmen and the corner offense, but I couldn’t single out one part of the field that stood out more than...