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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, 

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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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Two stories from File 770: Mars, Dr Seus

(1) LITIGATION. File 770 reported in September about the Kickstarter appeal raising funds for Oh, The Places You’ll Boldly Go!, featuring the writing of David Gerrold, the art of Ty Templeton, and the editorial skills of ComicMix’s Glenn Hauman.

The holders of the Dr. Seuss rights have objected and sued for damages reports TMZ.com in “Oh, The Lawsuits You’ll See”.

Dr. Seuss‘ stories should NOT be rehashed with Vulcans or Klingons in the mix — at least not without permission … according to a new lawsuit.

The Doc’s camp just filed suit against ComicMix, which thought it’d be neat to make a ‘Star Trek‘ version of “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” In the docs, obtained by TMZ, the Seuss’ co. says ComicMix fused elements of the classic book with their own story, and even jacked actual prose from the original … all without asking.

They say ComicMix knew damn well it was doing the Doc dirty because its Kickstarter page for the project mentioned they might have to go to court to prove their work was parody and not a violation of copyright. They acknowledged, “we may even lose.”

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