Word: toronto
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...Toronto Election, Again Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper dissolved Parliament on Sept. 7 and called for an early election--the third national vote in four years. A ballot had been scheduled for 2009, but analysts said the new Oct. 14 date benefits Harper's Conservative Party by getting voters to the polls before they can be influenced by the outcome of U.S. elections or a continuing slump in the economy...
...anyone's been talking about at the two big film festivals: Venice, which ended today, and Toronto, which began Thursday. One group of critics has seen The Wrestler, the other is waiting, tongues out like famished dogs, for tomorrow evening's North American premiere. The movie's producers have withheld U.S. rights until after the film shows here, anticipating a festival furor. On Saturday, the movie won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival - the event's top honor. Already, the two Hollywood trade papers have raved about the movie's star performance, and the Los Angeles Times...
...Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton will be there in aid of Burn After Reading, a quirky spy caper from Joel and Ethan Coen, who nabbed the top Oscar with No Country for Old Men. George Clooney, another of the film's stars, may not be in Toronto, but he was all over the place last year with Michael Clayton. Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Colin Farrell, Scarlett Johansson, Edward Norton, Renee Zellweger, Natalie Portman and dozens, hundreds more are expected to drop by for the birthing of their Academy hopefuls. As all these stars know, the process that...
...nothing new. In 2006 the top contenders for Best Picture were Brokeback Mountain, from TIFF 2005, and the eventual winner, Crash, which had played without much fanfare the year before. That film had been tagged for direct-to-video release until its eventual distributors saw its potential at Toronto and took it from there...
What course will outsourcing take in the near future? Stephen Frank, TORONTO...