Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Broadway isn't the only place for grand spectacle. At the Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas, that Mecca of excess, the Montreal troupe Cirque du Soleil has created a gorgeously surreal, thrillingly theatrical pageant. Acrobats mingle with Adam and Eve, spaceship Earth and a giant snail in a fantasy of rebirth. It plays like the fever dream of some millennial impresario. Call him Siegfried Roy Webber...
...Harvard men's rugby team captured the Peter Covo Memorial Cup this weekend in its annual battle with McGill College from Montreal, Canada...
...Alliance has turned out four TV movies based on the popular Harlequin romances, which CBS scheduled opposite football on Sunday afternoons. In late November the network will air Million Dollar Babies, a two-part mini-series about the Dionne quintuplets co-produced by Toronto's Bernard Zukerman Productions and Montreal's Cinar Films. Unlike the few Canadian TV films that have run previously on the networks, this one was bought up front by CBS, and will air simultaneously in both countries. Even the projects headed for syndication and cable are becoming more impressive -- for example, the western series Lonesome Dove...
...believe was mass murder followed by mass suicide. Jouret, a Belgian born in Zaire, and Di Mambro, a French Canadian, apparently were among the suicides. Twenty-five people died at Granges-sur-Salvan, 23 in a barn in the village of Cheiry and five in a chalet north of Montreal. The sites were set on fire with devices made from canisters of gasoline and butane and a phone- activated detonator...
...kind of surprised, because coming in, you don't think of yourself as one of the one or two players who'll step up right away," said Fleiszer, a Montreal native who prepped for two years at Choate before coming to Harvard...