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‘Naked Girls Reading’ Show Opens Burlesque Festival

July 22, 2010 by thushara · Leave a Comment 

(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - The 2010 Toronto Burlesque Festival is doing its part to boost interest in literature. The annual festival will kick off with an event called “Naked Girls Reading.” It was to be just that as the festival kicked off Wednesday at Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel.

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Tim Burton to develop film version of Monsterpocalypse

July 22, 2010 by publisher · Leave a Comment 

Director of Sweeney Todd and Alice in Wonderland plans Transformers-style adaptation of the board game He tackled musical theatre in Sweeney Todd and classic children’s literature in Alice in Wonderland. Now, for his next move, director Tim Burton is turning to the humble board game, developing a big-budget fantasy film that features monsters more fearsome than the Jabberwocky and more murderous …

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Lisa didn’t react to Myeloma! (Hindustan Times)

September 21, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Ray’s first film Pather Panchali was based on the classic bildungsroman of Bengali literature, published in 1928 by Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyay. The actress who is suffering from incurable cancer, is ecstatic after riding up in cycle-rickshaws for the premiere of Dilip Mehta’s Cooking With Stella at the just concluded Toronto International Film Festival.

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Lisa didn’t react to Myeloma! (Hindustan Times)

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Canadian cultural showcase for Scottish authors (The Herald)

August 19, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Author Ian Rankin will be among writers appearing at a showcase of contemporary Scottish literature at Toronto’s International Festival of Authors this autumn.

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