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Some stories from today’s Montreal Gazette

  • Dr Seus in Mississauga’s Square One
  • Damon regrets passing on Avatar
  • Axe used in The Shining is sold at auction
  • Flashback: William Shatner, Oct 3, 1980

Fans can enter Dr. Seuss’ world

Montreal Gazette, 

You can click here to view images from CTV Report

A new immersive experience inspired by the whimsical works of Dr. Seuss is opening in the Toronto area this fall. The 15,000-square-foot exhibit inside a Mississauga, Ont., mall runs from Oct. 26 to Jan. 5 before a U.S. tour. Highlights include a Grinch-themed room, a balloon-filled maze inspired by Oh, The Places You’ll Go, a room full of waist-high clovers as a nod to Horton Hears a Who!, and a mirrored room featuring the Sneetches. The interactive gallery is a collaboration between children’s entertainment company Dr. Seuss Enterprises and event company Kilburn Live.

Damon regrets passing on Avatar

  • Montreal Gazette,

Matt Damon missed his chance to be in one of the biggest movies of all time. Director James Cameron offered him the lead role in Avatar along with 10 per cent from the movie’s box office take, which would’ve earned him US$250 million, but he said no. Damon chose to stick with the Bourne films instead and still regrets missing the chance to work with Cameron. “I realized, in having to say no, that I was probably passing on the chance to ever work with him,” Damon said. Avatar 2 is due in December 2021.

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Shining axe slices off chunk of cash

  • Montreal Gazette,

The axe used by Jack Nicholson’s character in The Shining to hack through a bathroom door has been sold at auction for the equivalent of C$276,667, according to Britain’s Independent. The prop from Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name was sold for four times its estimate at the Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction in London on Tuesday.

Oct. 3, 1980: Shatner discusses career

  • Montreal Gazette,

Jean Pierre Rivest caught William Shatner in a reflective mood when Rivest photographed the Montreal-born actor for an article published Oct. 3, 1980.

Shatner, then 41, was here to star in a horror movie whose working title was The Fright. Eleven years after the original Star Trek series had been cancelled, Shatner was still grappling with the career hangover of playing Capt. James T. Kirk, one of the most vivid TV characters of the 1960s.

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Can we separate the art from the artist?

Can we separate the art from the artist?

At the September MonSFFA meeting, Danny asked the question, “Can we separate the art from the artist?”.  Danny first raised the issue last year, but with the renaming of two major SF awards since August, the topic has really exploded with many viewpoints being expressed.

File 770 picked up on two stories that I thought MonSFFen who were at that meeting might want to follow. Click the links for the rest of the story. 

   ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT THINGS. David Gerrold contends art and the artist should be regarded separately in his public Facebook post:

So let’s say that I point out that the owners of a specific fast-food chain have donated a lot of money to anti-LGBTQ+ causes.

This is not an invitation to say:

“The food is terrible.”

Let’s say that I point out that a particular actor has said some unsavory things about politics. This is not an invitation to say,
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“She can’t act anyway.”

Or maybe a well-known author has said something egregiously stupid. That’s not an invitation to say,

“I never liked his writing in the first place.” …

SHOULD CLARKE’S NAME STAY ON AN AWARD? Jason Sanford’s post “Yes, Arthur C. Clarke was likely a pedophile” reviews two decades of press coverage about the issue. His closing lines are:

Now that we’re finally examining the issues around people like John W. Campbell, James Tiptree Jr., and Marion Zimmer Bradley, we should do the same for Clarke. Especially since a major genre award is named for him.

None of this changes how important Clarke’s stories were to my development as a writer or his impact on the field of science fiction. This doesn’t mean you can’t still love his books.

But the SF/F genre simply can’t ignore this issue any longer.