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...National Post, which he founded in 1998. "It was a painful decision, given that the Post was my baby," he says. "But a national newspaper needs a resident proprietor and I've not been a resident of Canada for 12 years." Indeed Black, who is married to columnist Barbara Amiel, a Briton who grew up in Canada (he has three children from a previous marriage), spends half the year at his home in London. He has close ties to the British Conservative Party and, like his friend Margaret Thatcher, opposes increased British integration into the E.U. Born to a wealthy...
ENTRAPMENT Directed by Jon Amiel Starring Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta- Jones, Ving Rhames 20th Century...
...strange thing about this film, visually, seems to come from its directing/producing line-up. Jon Amiel, whose previous work includes the nauseatingly sadistic Copycat and the astoundingly boring Sommersby remake, has teamed up with producers from Heat and Free Willy 2. The only question is how this movie was made at all, considering the divergent interests of those involved. But the effect is wholly pleasing, combining fast comedy with art-house cinematography. The scenes feel at times like someone spent too much time at film school, but it makes them interesting to watch, even if you think you know what...
After all, as former Toronto Sun editor Barbara Amiel points out, if multiculturalism cannot work in Canada, where can it work? If it cannot work in a country as civil, decent and tolerant as Canada--a country where the majority English speakers have been extraordinarily generous in granting all kinds of cultural protections, subsidies, special rights and privileges to the linguistic minority of French Canada--then where...
Copycat, directed by Jon Amiel (The Singing Detective, Sommersby), means to be a Greatest Hits album of atrocities. Its murderer has eyes to replicate the artistry of such superstar psychos as Son of Sam, Jeffrey Dahmer, the Boston and Hillside Stranglers--that crowd. His pursuer is a crafty cop (Holly Hunter). His nemesis is a psychologist (Sigourney Weaver) who studies the serial killer's mentality. And his hero is a recently arrested multiple murderer (cleverly played by saloon crooner Harry Connick Jr. as if he were a more deranged cousin of Jim Varney's goony Ernest character...