Word: starring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Managing Editor Ray Heard walked into the paper's newsroom one afternoon last week and delivered the brutal message: after 110 years of business, the Montreal Star (circ. 114,000) had published its last edition. The evening daily had lost $14.6 million and 50,000 readers as the result of a bitter eight-month pressmen's strike that ended in February. So the owner, F.P. Publications (the Toronto Globe and Mail and six other Canadian dailies), decided that with the balance sheet red and the broadsheet unread, the Star was better off dead...
Long the fat matron of Montreal's once powerful English-speaking minority, the Star consistently outsold its morning rival, the Gazette (circ. 168,000), which was founded in 1778 and is owned by the Southam chain (the Ottawa Citizen and 13 other Canadian dailies). But over the past two decades, Toronto has gradually displaced Montreal as the nation's leading city. English-speaking Montrealers began moving out in even larger numbers after René Lévesque's secession-minded Parti Québecois won control of Quebec in 1976. For a while, the Star weathered that...
...Rice-Lloyd Webber score is inferior to their work in Jesus Christ Super star. While ingratiatingly melodic for the most part, Lloyd Webber's tunes seem to have been composed by the British equivalent of ASCAP anonymous. Rice's lyrics too often rely on straw-clutching rhymes. The dying Eva plaintively asks, "What is the good of the strongest heart/ In a body that's falling apart...
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...loss of junior stand-out Sarah Mleczko, a star on last year's team whose class schedule ruled out her playing this season, might have put a dampener on the squad, but Kellogg glows with optimism on the team's prospects despite the loss...