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...Brando who supplied most of the offscreen drama and humor. You may have read that he shot his close-ups naked from the waist down when The Score was on location in Montreal last summer. Those reports were greatly exaggerated. "It was hot," explains Norton, "and Marlon was sweating through his suit, so he put on shorts instead of the suit pants. It was the most practical, simple thing...
DIED. MORDECAI RICHLER, 70, undiplomatic Canadian author whose humorous and often irreverent writings gave equal time to mocking the bourgeoisie, Judaism, life in Montreal and elitist Quebecois; of complications from kidney cancer; in Montreal. Richler's first acclaimed novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), about an ambitious Jewish boy clawing his way out of working-class Montreal, was turned into a movie with Richard Dreyfuss in 1974 and earned Richler an Oscar nomination for the screenplay. He also wrote prolifically on such political topics as the Quebec separatist movement, scoffing at the law banning exterior signs in any language...
...DIED. JOAN SIMS, 71, the British queen of the double entendre; in London. Best remembered for the bawdy, farcical Carry On series of comedy films, she also had a successful stage and TV career. DIED. YVONNE DIONNE, 67, one of Canada's famous captive quintuplets, "the Dionne Quints"; in Montreal. Until the age of nine, the "quints" were displayed as a tourist attraction, and were viewed by a total of 4 million visitors. DIED. JACK LEMMON, 76, esteemed actor; in Los Angeles. Lemmon is perhaps most famous for his role as straight man Felix Unger opposite Walter Matthau...
...shows to manipulate the images, voices and surroundings of the stars. Avid has won 45% of a professional computer-based editing and special-effects global market, worth $1 billion last year and expected to double by 2005. Its closest competitor, Discreet Logic, a division of Autodesk based in Montreal, has 30% of the market. Sony and Matsushita have managed to win only 15%, even though they dominate electronics hardware...
...Nothing in My Dreams, the latest single by Girls with Attitude, consists entirely of a prepubescent girl moaning tunelessly about puppies over an all-Casio backing track. Despite--or because of--its extreme awfulness, There's Nothing in My Dreams is now the No. 1 song in the Montreal section of MP3.com The Internet has given an audience to thousands of talentless musicians who don't even deserve a garage to play in--and the audience loves...