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Never say Never

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Neverbloomers: The Search for Grownuphood, directed by Sharon Hyman, CBC documentary channel, Monday 27 February, 8pm

by Leila Marshy
26.02.2012

Over a decade ago I read Robert Bly’s The Sibling Society and thought, damn, I better grow up. Around that same time, Sharon Hyman put her camera on a tripod, stared into the lens, and asked the very legitimate question: What does it mean to grow up and why aren’t I doing it? Never married, childless, with no discernable career, still renting, she possessed none of the conventional “markers” of adulthood. She was the arrivist who never quite got there. As she says at one point to the camera, “There are early bloomers, there are late bloomers, and then there are the never bloomers.”

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NOTEBOOK

Hooked On Henry

by Marianne Ackerman
06.11.2009

Don’t expect to see me anywhere but in front of the TV Wednesday nights at 9. Michael Hirst’s brilliant historical romp The Tudors remains the hottest spot on the box and infinitely better than most of what the wide screen has to offer.

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THEATRE

A Nostalgic Singalong

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Till We Meet Again, Oscar Peterson Concert Hall

by Anna Fuerstenberg
19.10.2009

There was a little irony in the crisp fall air as I followed the cane and walker crowd into the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall: someone was playing Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean on a ghetto blaster that rang out over the Loyola campus. Till We Meet Again is a reproduction of CBC radio broadcasts during World [...]

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