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The week ahead - 6-23-08 (The Yuma Sun)

Film for the Wednesday evening “Dive-in” at Marcus Pool, 5th Street and 6th Avenue, will be “Beetlejuice.” Pool opens at 8:30 p.m. for the family event sponsored by the City of Yuma Parks and Recreation Departments and 33.10. Cost is $1 per person.

June 22, 2008   Comments Off

Fans snap up tickets to Atwood, Connery readings (CBC)

Tickets for readings by Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood and former James Bond star Sean Connery sold out on Saturday, the opening day of the box office for the 25th annual Edinburgh International Book Festival.

June 22, 2008   Comments Off

`Get Smart’ Tops Box Office, Beats No. 4 ‘Love Guru’ (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)

June 22 (Bloomberg) — “Get Smart,” the spy-movie spoof starring Steve Carell , was the No. 1 film at U.S. and Canadian theaters this weekend with sales of $39.2 million.

June 22, 2008   Comments Off

`Get Smart’ Tops Box Office; Myers’s ‘Love Guru’ Opens as No. 4 (Bloomberg.com)

June 22 (Bloomberg) — “Get Smart,” the spy-movie spoof starring Steve Carell , was the No. 1 film at U.S. and Canadian theaters this weekend with sales of $39.2 million.

June 22, 2008   Comments Off

North Texas leads the way in bringing ‘Desi’ culture to a wider audience (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

By CARY DARLING DALLAS — “This is big!” Raghav Mathur shouts from the stage into the vastness of the Dallas Convention Center. The 27-year-old Canadian rapper/singer of Indian descent — who, like Madonna and Diddy, gets by with just his first name — is addressing several thousand people who turned up for Summer Beats 08, a multi-act pop-rock concert with a distinctly Indo-Pakistani beat. Raghav …

June 22, 2008   Comments Off

North Texas leads the way in bringing ‘Desi’ culture to a wider audience (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

By CARY DARLING DALLAS — “This is big!” Raghav Mathur shouts from the stage into the vastness of the Dallas Convention Center. The 27-year-old Canadian rapper/singer of Indian descent — who, like Madonna and Diddy, gets by with just his first name — is addressing several thousand people who turned up for Summer Beats 08, a multi-act pop-rock concert with a distinctly Indo-Pakistani beat. …

June 22, 2008   Comments Off

A mini ‘Film Club’ fosters an engaging memoir (San Diego Union-Tribune)

A few pages into “The Film Club,” the smart, new memoir by Canadian film critic David Gilmour, it becomes clear that if he ever saw any of MGM’s squeaky-clean “Andy Hardy” movies while growing up, they left little impression on him.

June 22, 2008   Comments Off

“Up the Yangtze”: Family cruise leads to exploration of human toll of Chinese development (Seattle Times)

Has China relaxed its censorship restrictions regarding Western documentaries during the past year? Two Canadian-based nonfiction films…

June 22, 2008   Comments Off

Review: Father and son bond over classic cinema in ‘The Film Club’ (Lawrence Journal-World)

A few pages into “The Film Club” (Twelve, $21.99), the smart, new memoir by Canadian film critic David Gilmour, it becomes clear that if he ever saw any of MGM’s squeaky-clean “Andy Hardy” movies while growing up, they left little impression on him.

June 22, 2008   Comments Off