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Toronto Star - Entertainment

Vinay Menon: If Hillary Clinton wants Donald Trump to lose, she should endorse him - If Trump's last-ditch plan to win re-election is to pretend he's still running against Clinton, she could put a giant fly in the ointment with the ultimate act of political trolling, writes Vinay Menon.

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Factory Theatre combines past and future in 50th anniversary season -- Artistic director Nina Lee Aquino resurrects theatre pieces emblematic of past Factory leaders and connect them with contemporary artists of colour, writes Carly Maga.

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Toronto Star bestsellers for the week ending June 19, 2019 -- The books Canadians bought this week

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The Cave at Luminato asks us to listen to the animals -- This song cycle gives us sheltering in a cave from a massive forest fire, who entertain themselves and us even as the threat of destruction grows closer, writes Karen Fricker.

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Mel B 'upset' that Victoria Beckham skipped Spice Girls reunion tour -- The group wrapped up their 13-show run this weekend without an appearance from Posh Spice.

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NFB says Indigenous Action Plan is on track, meets 2020 production targets -- The commitment to spend at least 15 per cent of its production funds on Indigenous works was part of the film board's three-year action plan.

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Here's why classic theatre like The Horse and His Boy and The Front Page needs a helping hand -- The Shaw and Stratford festivals have been busy adapting the C.S. Lewis story and the Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur comedy for modern audiences, writes Carly Maga.

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Winnipeg General Strike inspires a movie musical love story Stand -- Movie musical personalizes the sacrifices of immigrants and labour leaders in Winnipeg, some of whom died and several of whom were arrested in a police crackdown.

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Marta Kauffman glad Grace & Frankie proves 'aspirational for women' -- Marta Kauffman, creator of the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie, says its unexpected appeal to younger women "looking for people to talk about the stuff" that is a natural part is agiing is better than any tangible award that Friends ever earned.

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'In no small way, I am Woody': Tom Hanks reflects on Toy Story's legacy -- Over the course of voicing Woody the sheriff doll in Pixar's four Toy Story films, Tom Hanks has found the Pixar franchise contains a sense of "true family and extended family that is representative of anybody's life."

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Wait well worth it for Levine's The Wicked Tongue -- The collection that spans the gamut from diamond-tipped flash fiction to dystopian fairy tale.

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Nathan the Wise still works as an argument for religious tolerance -- Part of the reason that Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's 1779 play still resonates is that it resists the impulse to make its characters unrealistic moral symbols, writes Carly Maga.

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John Cusack apologizes for anti-Semitic tweet — but only after defending why he posted it -- The offensive tweet, since deleted, featured a black-and-white cartoon that depicted a giant hand with a blue Star of David imposed on the sleeve smashing a crowd of feeble-looking people beneath it.

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On The Bachelorette, the Luke P drama continues -- A botched date isn't enough to dislodge Luke, but it seems that telling Hannah who she can have sex with will be, writes Debra Yeo.

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Xiao Nan Yu's swan song with the National Ballet of Canada -- Principal dancer is set to take the lead in The Merry Widow, her last ballet with the esteemed company after joining more than 20 years ago.

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Bachelor in Paradise cast mates Krystal Nielson and Chris Randone are married -- The former Bachelor and Bachelorette villains met and got engaged last season on spinoff Bachelor in Paradise.

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Taylor Swift doubles down on politics in pro-LGBTQ video, 'You Need to Calm Down' -- Swift's new music video puts LGBTQ rights centre stage, with celebrations of gay culture and marriage — and claps back at the people who oppose them.

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Opera star Measha Brueggergosman awaiting heart surgery in Calgary -- The singer said on Facebook that she was awaiting double bypass surgery after waking up with severe chest pain.

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Tabloids: Duchess Kate must be pregnant if a tabloid says so -- A thin story about the Duchess of Cambridge, and some heavy news from the Spice Girls.

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Taylor Swift and Marilyn Manson in 'Sweet Things are Made of This?': Stargazing -- This week: Nic Cage is a loser again.

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Billie Eilish's easygoing stage presence rides wave of roars from adoring crowd in Toronto -- Budding superstar's show sagged a bit in the middle on Tuesday, but Ben Rayner says her unpretentious nerd-girl persona has a special connection to her fans and she more than did right by them.

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Raptors' loss forces Oprah to cancel Toronto show -- If team had won NBA title on Monday, Oprah's show could have gone on, but now league insists on arena, two days before Game 7, if necessary.

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Vinay Menon: Justin Bieber wants to fight Tom Cruise. He should battle his burdens instead -- The pop superstar from Stratford, Ont., may be keen to escape his life, writes Vinay Menon. But he can't do that by entering an octagon with Jerry Maguire.

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How Raptor Foot went from street performance to unofficial NBA anthem -- The infectious, reggae-infused song started on the streets of downtown Toronto and exploded in popularity this month as basketball fever swept the nation.

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Epic Obeah Opera at Luminato highlights the forgotten voices of slaves in colonial America -- Obeah Opera, depicting the Salem witch trials in late 17th-century New England through the lives of slave women, has the makings of greatness but suffers from lack of focus, writes John Terauds.

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Crowbar founder Kelly Jay suffers massive stroke -- "Kelly Jay is still with us as of now, but we are allowing him to rest comfortably and pass naturally," Kelly Jay Fordham's son Hank said in a Facebook post late Thursday.

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Drake plans two new songs to mark Toronto Raptors' NBA championship -- Drake, who is the basketball team's global ambassador, says the songs will be called "Omerta" and "Money In the Grave," featuring Mississippi rapper Rick Ross.

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Songs of a heedless generation help close TSO season with Carmina Burana

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President Trump just 'liked' his first tweet in years — on Rihanna's work-life balance -- Despite being one of the most famous Twitter users in the world with 40,000-plus tweets, Trump has only liked eight tweets since joining the social media platform in 2009.

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Jazz.FM91 gets its voice back after the upheaval of 2018 -- Beloved voices like Heather Bambrick and Jaymz Bee are back in the control booth as Jazz.FM91's new management attempts to woo back fans and supporters.

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Alyssa Milano happy with flawed heroine in flick Tempting Fate -- Star got fellow TV series veteran Kim Raver as co-director of Lifetime movie about a perfect marriage disrupted by a handsome younger man.

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'He's just a psychotic': Letterman looks back with regret on his many Trump interviews -- The December 1987 episode launched a decades-long on-screen dance between the two men.

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Actor names U.S. politician who inspired new 'no mercy' Handmaid's Tale role -- 'He doesn't think of himself as a bad guy,' says Jonathan Watton of new character.

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My Little Pony show introduces lesbian pony couple -- The animated children's television series is introducing a lesbian pony couple on its next episode to round out its final season.

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On The Bachelorette, Hannah can't catch more than a glimpse of the Luke Ness Monster -- Hannah and her men travel to Scotland where kilts are donned, haggis is eaten and Hannah spends way too much time trying to get Luke P to talk like a real person.

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Julia Roberts reveals the dark, original Pretty Woman ending -- In an interview, the actress spoke about the role that catapulted her into fame and just how dark the original ending was meant to be in the 1990 rom-com.

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Peter Howell: Jessie T. Usher, the movies' newest John Shaft, talks millennials, dream roles and the line that's '100% Samuel L. Jackson improv' -- How did Usher, 27, handle being in the same movie with Jackson and Richard Roundtree? Shut your mouth and he'll tell you.

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Peter Howell: Q&A: Indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch on why multiplexes are stranger than zombies -- If it seems strange that Jim Jarmusch has made a zombie movie, The Dead Don't Die, even stranger has to be where it's playing its opening weekend: multiplexes.

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The writer of The Secret Life of Pets 2 was channelling his own fatherhood fears -- How I ended up in a theatre watching The Secret Life of Pets 2, feeling as though the main story line of the film was speaking only to me.

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Bryan Singer to settle sexual assault lawsuit for $150,000 -- Four other men accused Singer of sexually assaulting them in an article published in The Atlantic earlier this year.

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Peter Howell: Bob Dylan film's fakery renders Rolling Thunder Revue doc deceitful -- Film by Dylan explainer/enabler Martin Scorsese is presented as a documentary, but it adds fictional characters, leaving Peter Howell to suspect that Dylan sees the audience as suckers as dupes. Watergate, on the other hand, does some re-creation of scenes but plays it above board.

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There are dads in the house, and in these five new Father's Day books -- From taking care of business to strategies for survival, we celebrate dads — and their kids

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Shut Up You're Pretty a debut collection of bite-sized stories offering searing portraits of sex work -- Téa Mutonji doesn't offer a hopeful view of women's options, but her characters are vital, and their fights and flights stun like punches.

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Poetry paints a lyrical picture of Canada -- Four new books explore feelings and experiences as poets move around and within the country

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Giller Prize nominee Alix Ohlin's Dual Citizens a literary take on an airport romance novel -- With 'exemplary' storytelling the plot-intensive tale keeps the pages turning

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Powerful autofiction about growing up queer and an immigrant -- Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous confronts hard truths alongside fleeting joys

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Thrillers to cool you down with a chill up your spine on hot summer days -- It's time to start stockpiling a few thrillers for summer getaways. Here are five to get you started.

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Neal Stephenson's new book Fall: what would happen if we could digitize our consciousness? -- Stephenson 'is as informative as he is entertaining when dealing with just about any subject'

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Stratford's The Neverending Story is a glitter thrill ride that spotlights its own shortcomings -- The script assumes an audience will be so familiar with the story from the novel that what unfolds is like a play in the form of a connect-the-dots drawing, writes Carly Maga.

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Mother's Daughter is a compelling exploration of sexuality and power -- Playwright Kate Hennig and director Alan Dilworth counter the story's darkness with a strong sense of humour that runs throughout, writes Carly Maga.

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Who's the man behind Toronto's Dear Evan Hansen -- Robert Markus goes for a walk with Debra Yeo and talks about getting the 'behemoth of a role' and the Stratford Festival show that kindled his love of musical theatre.

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Four Sisters at Luminato plays with time and delivers some hope -- The culmination of Susanna Fournier's Empire Trilogy gives up control (narratively, physically, historically) to restore a bit of hope to a dark world, writes Carly Maga.

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Why The Lion King and The Book of Mormon can still pack theatres -- The Lion King enthralls with its design, music and performance while Mormon delivers risqué material 'with a heart,' theatre experts tell Karen Fricker.

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Mirvish aims for screech-in world record at Come From Away -- The entire audience at the July performance will be invited to down a shot of screech (or ginger ale) and kiss a plastic cod.

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Torah tapestry stitched by 1,500 people a spiritual experience -- The still unfinished project stands more than two metres tall, 85 metres long and takes up much of the third floor of the Textile Museum of Canada.

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Game of Thrones knight Liam Cunningham is fighting a real-life war, that of 'compassion' against aggression -- In his photographs, on display at Toronto's Union Station, actor Cunningham aims to convey the dignity of the refugees he met in Uganda and South Sudan.

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Five are on short list for $100,000 Sobey's Art Award -- The winner of the award, open to visual artists aged 40 and under, will be announced Nov. 15.

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Laugh at this Valérie Blass' sculpture in Toronto, sure, but take it seriously -- Quebec artist Blass' exhibit at the AGO blurs the distinction between figuration and abstraction.

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Rembrandt embraced by the ROM in new exhibition -- Dutch masters, known for capturing everyday life, come to a slightly surprising place: the Royal Ontario Museum.

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Multimillion-dollar Matisse painting doesn't sell at Toronto auction -- 'Femme assise sur un balcon' didn't meet its reserve price, but a pair of Riopelle canvases went for nearly $2.3 million each

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Stratford Festival enhances theatre-going experience with Forum events

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Choose your musical: Stratford's Little Shop of Horrors vs. Billy Elliot - What would you rather fight: societal norms or a man-eating Venus flytrap? See how the Stratford Festival's two marquee musicals match up

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Get more from a visit to the Stratford Festival with fun, thought-provoking Forum events

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Actor Dan Chameroy tackles two roles at Stratford Festival - Dan Chameroy, the Stratford Festival's Dr. Frank-N-Furter from last year's The Rocky Horror Show, returns as another screamingly funny eccentric in Little Shop of Horrors. But it's his role as a father in Billy Elliot the Musical that he relates to the most.

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Stratford Direct bus adds return trips from Vaughan and Kitchener-Waterloo

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