Hit by two astonishing tragedies in quick succession, the Malaysia Airlines brand may become the airline industry’s equivalent of asbestos or News of the World: toxic to the public and, experts say, impossible to redeem.
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Many people have summer rituals, but few people attempt an annual pilgrimage anything like Chris Harvey-Clark when he heads to Baie-Comeau, Que., to search for the elusive Greenland shark.
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Mood Indigo
Even if you have a high tolerance for whimsy, “Mood Indigo” may still be too much.
This story of the heavenly then piercing love between Colin (Romain Duris) and Chloé (Audrey Tautou) is one-stop-shopping for the types of visual and emotional effects that the director’s fans might call Gondryisms. As in “Mind” and “Human Nature” and “The We and the I,” the filmmaker creates surreal or flat-out fantastic images, but with old-fashioned special effects: stop-motion, miniatures that are obviously miniatures, people in costumes that are obviously costumes, highly symbolic tableaus that are built and lit and blocked like stage sets, and so forth. Then he photographs it all in ways that tell your brain, “This is a thing that happened in front of this camera, and we just happened to catch it.” That creates a cognitive dissonance that’s often lovely, and dreamlike in its unnerving matter-of-factness.
The problem here is that the images are yoked to a story that seems to have been meant (at one time, anyway) as cutting satire, as a comment on the disconnect between the upper classes and everybody else. Gondry can’t or won’t reconcile the critical aspects of the story with …read more
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Tyler Seguin puts golf tee on groin
Tyler Seguin of the Dallas Stars let a guy smack a golf ball off a tee that was resting on his groin during The Fourth Period charity classic in Nobleton, Ont.
Actor Jason Biggs issued an apology on Twitter after an ‘insensitive’ joke he made about Malaysian Airlines provoked an online backlash.
An Edmonton police officer is still on the job even though a disciplinary hearing found he punched and tried to strangle his fiance during a trip to Mexico last year.