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MONTREAL—By July 16, 2001, Red Sox Nation’s invasion of Montreal was already two days old. Hours before the evening’s Olympic Stadium showdown, a French-Canadian tour guide was surrounded by a rowdy mob donning the traditional red-B headwear of the city’s transient majority. Initially the Expos employee concludes his tour with the customary “I hope you all enjoy the game tonight,” but then sensing the opportunity for last-second tips from the privileged throwing around their foreign currency like play money...
...least 20,000 Red Sox fans crossed the Canadian border to witness their team’s 8-5 victory over the Expos on July 15. Before the Sox came to town, Olympic Stadium was averaging just 8,172 fans per game. The Sunday afternoon contest drew 32,965, the Expos’ highest mark since opening day. When the first batter of the game, Red Sox second baseman Jose Offerman, steps to the plate, he receives a standing ovation from the crowd. A young wife cheering for the psuedo-home team turns to her husband and whispers...
...Feng returns the compliment. "I love Sutherland," he announces in halting English, as he raises a glass of chardonnay to cap a farewell party for the Canadian-born actor at the close of shooting. As the crew disperses into the night, a young woman sidles up to Feng for an autograph. Feng looks surprised, scratches his head and points to Sutherland. "No, he's the famous one," he says, a lopsided grin taking over his face. "Big Hollywood man. Me, I'm just an ordinary guy." That's the creed that makes Feng China's top director: keeping it funny...
...Although often a resident of England and a frequent traveler to the U.S., my friend for over 40 years,Mordecai Richler, remained the consummate Canadian. Also an unapologetic Jew. "To be a Jew and a Canadian is to emerge from the ghetto twice," he once wrote. His scathing social commentary and masterful comic novels derived from that vantage point. He became a Canadian Mencken, caustically attacking separatists and French language supremacists. But he could also go to Waugh, matching in his best fiction?from The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) to Barney's Version (1997)?the work of contemporaries Philip...
...national team in the 1998 World Cup, Zidane, or Zizou, has been playing with champion Italian football team Juventus since 1996. The superstar midfielder will be replaced by Lazio's Czech favorite Pavel Nedved. DIED. MORDECAI RICHLER, 70, author and screenwriter; in Montreal. Among his many achievements, the caustic Canadian had been twice short-listed for the Booker Prize and appointed to the Order of Canada. See Eulogy. DIED. HANNELORE KOHL, 68, wife of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Her elegant life as the Chancellor's wife?she was also an accomplished cook and linguist?was afflicted...