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Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma & Louise Drove Hollywood to the Edge by Becky Aikman (Penguin Press, $37)

“She would create a movie about outlaw women on the run, busting out of tedious, thwarted humdrum lives – lives like hers – for freedom that let them finally become their true selves.  She imagined it all:  a movie unlike any other she had ever seen, where women drove the story, maybe even got to […]

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Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night by Jason Zinoman (HarperCollins, $35.99)

“…Letterman inspired an entire generation of comedians.  He created a blueprint that was followed by almost every late-night show with an adventurous bent, and helped define a sensibility that changed the entire culture.” -Jason Zinoman (from Letterman:  The Last Giant of Late Night) During my college years there were few options for after primetime comedy/variety/talk […]

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Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone (Mark Dawidziak, St. Martin’s Press, $37.99)

“It has often been said that the episodes of The Twilight Zone are parables – short allegorical stories designed to illustrate or teach some truth or moral lesson.” -Anne Serling (from the Introduction to Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone) I first heard of The Twilight Zone in the mid-seventies.  […]

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This is a Book About The Kids in the Hall by John Semley (ECW Press, $19.95)

“Their namesake sketch series helped define Gen Xers, arresting their generational sensibility mid-eyeroll:  sarcastic, sneering, derisive of authority and self-importance, yet also progressive, compassionate, wildly intelligent, and maybe more than a little self-indulgent.” -John Semley (from This is a Book About The Kids in the Hall) In the Late eighties SCTV was gone and although […]

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Must-see Montreal events in February 2017

Here are some Montreal arts and culture highlights for February 2017: MUSEUMS The blockbuster exhibition Chagall: Colour and Music at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts features some 500 works and documents—paintings, collages, watercolours, sculptures, stained glass windows and ceramics—which show how the aesthetic and artistic world of famed Russian-French artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is imbued with […]