Word: toronto
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...summer of 1964, a willowy but pregnant 20-year-old singer named Joan Anderson arrived in Toronto from her native province of Saskatchewan to face a painful decision. Penniless and afraid to tell her parents, she gave birth as a charity patient at a local hospital to a blue-eyed baby girl she named Kelly Dale. The father, a student who had accompanied her to Toronto, was out of the picture, so Joni hastily married folk singer Chuck Mitchell, hoping to make a home for her baby. "I kept trying to find some kind of circumstance where I could stay...
Kilauren, who had had a happy childhood in a middle-class Toronto suburb, began her search in 1992, after her parents, both teachers, told her she was adopted. Asked in an interview with Toronto's City TV why they waited so long, Kilauren said, "Because they loved me. They wanted me to be comfortable." Pregnant with her own child, she filed an application with a public agency to find out who her birth mother was. Then she waited. And waited. Finally, this January she received a brief "nonidentifying" description of her mother. She was a folk singer born...
...have loved and lost has its merits, especially for poetic types like JONI MITCHELL, but to have lost and found is still sweeter. Mitchell has been reunited with a daughter she put up for adoption in Toronto in 1965, when Mitchell was just 21 and not yet a folk-singing star. She went public about her desire to meet her daughter, now 32, last December, but because of Ontario's strict adoption-secrecy laws, she had a hard time finding the young woman. "Apparently her daughter was looking for her too, so there's sort of a fairy-tale ending...
...Usually if it's somewhere for a year or more you call it a sit-down production, because it stays in the same city. New York and London are the biggest, you'll have things run there for years and years and years. And then it's followed by Toronto, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston. And then of course you have your Melbourne and Sydney, those are big cities.... It's all cultural. It's all English-speaking. Ninety percent English-speaking, in terms of your market. You go to France, I mean, Les Mis lost money in France...
When they were young lads growing up in Toronto, MIKE MYERS and his brother were sent Beatles suits by an aunt in Liverpool, whence his parents had emigrated. Thus, perhaps, was Myers' deep-seated anglophilia born. His newest creation, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, is clearly from a place far, far away from Wayne's World. He's a swinging '60s English fashion photographer by day and secret agent by night, who has himself frozen, as does his nemesis, Dr. Evil, also played by Myers. When Evil returns in 1997, so must Powers, along with his 1967 sexual mores...