Word: toronto
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...Alexandria...New York, where an old filmmaker runs into an American woman he'd loved a half-century before. Yet Chahine always made distinctions between the American people and the U.S. government. In his contribution to the 2002 omnibus film 11'09"01: September 11, shown at the Toronto Film Festival on the first anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, he floats the argument that Islamic militants had the right to kill civilians in the U.S. and Israel - because these are democracies, where the people choose their leaders and thus are responsible for policies that enslave the rest...
There she stood, a vision of tawdriness: blond hair, black skirt, red bra over taut white flesh. She was that odd-lot remnant of the '80s, a Madonna wannabe. But most of the other fans at the Toronto SkyDome last week for the North American opening of the singer's Girlie Show tour were dressed in civvies. For them, the star was only something to stare at. She is not a role model, not after a decade in the spotlight. These days, does anyone wanna be Madonna? Does anyone even wanna see Madonna? Not on the movie screen. Body...
...supposed to be a replay of baseball's first international thriller: the Great White North vs. the South that Rose Again. In last year's rousing World Series, the Toronto Blue Jays snuck past the Atlanta Braves, and everyone was ready for Round 2 this October. Canada's Team had repelled a Yank assault to cruise to its American League East title. The Braves had staged one of the sport's come-from-behind astonishments to nip the San Francisco Giants on the last day of the season. This year all that separated the heavyweight champ and the top contender...
...corruption and death run rampant in countries like Rwanda and Zimbabwe when billions of dollars and thousands of lives are spent in Iraq? The so-called overseers of human rights - from the U.S. to the U.N. - have little more legitimacy than callous dictators like Mugabe. Daniel Kowbell, Toronto...
...basically a three-person saga, led by Fraser, the easygoing, Toronto-educated star of the Mummy movies; his reassuring blandness is the very definition of the word Canadian. Hutcherson, who was Will Ferrell's son in Kicking and Screaming and the older brother in Favreau's Zathura, survives the early part of the film, where he's obliged to be restless and annoying, and emerges as an acceptable young hero. The film gets a big boost from Briem, a young Icelandic actress who is both angel-cool and sorceress-hot. (She's for the target kids' older brothers.) Her role...