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Reel Injun, by Neil Diamond (Hour Magazine, cover)
The Real Neil Diamond: Cree documentarian finds his own fame at FIFA The receptionist at the Palm Springs Hilton doesn’t miss a beat when I dial up and ask for Neil Diamond. Apparently, he’s staying at the hotel under his own name. The Montreal-based Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond may not yet be as famous as […]
Posted: March 21st, 2010 under Hour Magazine, Movies, Music, Neil Diamond, People.
Tags: Clint Eastwood, Cree, documentary, FIFA, Neil Diamond, Reel Injun, Rezolution Pictures
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Francis Coppola: My favourite street (in enRoute)
Francis Ford Coppola’s most famous scenes may be set in New York, but he’s been a Californian since his days at UCLA. In 1972, when he started work on The Godfather, the director set up operations on Kearny Street in San Francisco’s North Beach neighbourhood. An acclaimed vintner and hotelier, Coppola also finds the time […]
Posted: December 4th, 2009 under City, enRoute, Food, Misc, Movies, People.
Tags: Francis Ford Coppola, Kearny St., San Francisco, Zoetrope
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Where the Wild Things Are, by Spike Jonze (Hour Magazine, cover)
Wild and wooly Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are will help you regress I’ve always thought it was significant that Maurice Sendak called his book Where the Wild Things Are, and not What the Wild Things Do. In a world where the emphasis, even for kids, is so often on human striving and achieving, […]
Posted: October 28th, 2009 under Beats, Movies, People, Travel.
Tags: Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker, Maurice Sendak, Spike Jonze, where the Wild Things Are
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