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...context of a violent game. More importantly, he did it in a game where both of these individuals were known as brawlers. Canada wanting to prosecute its national pastime for doing what made the sport famous in the first place is even dumber than the Canadian health care system...
...George Bernard Shaw once penned, "This writing of plays is a great matter," and nothing could be more the case at a Canadian theater festival named in his honor. The Shaw Festival will stage eight plays from March 31 through Nov. 11 in its three theaters in Niagara-on-the-Lake, on the Ontario peninsula, just 20 miles from the falls. Two are by G.B.S.--The Doctor's Dilemma and The Apple Cart--and the rest are by Luigi Pirandello, J.B. Priestley, Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde. Highlights of the repertory season this year include adaptations of Lord...
Four years ago, a Canadian civic organization designated little Niagara-on-the-Lake the country's prettiest town. It's easy to see why. There are scores of parks, gardens and historic homes. Golf courses, biking and nature trails are close by, and within an easy drive are 15 of Canada's top wineries, offering year-round tastings and tours...
...British-born Canadian, Gladwell, 36, started thinking about the large consequences of marginal actions while working on a story about the crime rate in New York City. William Bratton, then the city's police commissioner, was a believer in the "broken windows" theory, which says such big crimes as assault and robbery happen where small decay, like litter and graffiti, is tolerated. To ward off shootings and break-ins, Bratton cracked down on things like public urination and subway spray painting, a tactic that explains at least part of the city's crime drop in the 1990s...
...Amanda Peet too leaves some dubious other film appearances and fills the movie with much needed younger vitality (although the viewer is left too to wonder why the seduced ends up being the much older Bruce Willis). Finally, Rosanna Arquette is masterful in her portrayal of an evil, French-Canadian wife...