One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 17 September 2002

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Brian De Palma Toasts the New and Reflects on 'Scarface'. Brian De Palma didn't come to the Toronto Film Festival just to see his own film, "Femme Fatale." The director has been visiting the festival since 1979 to see the entries. By Elvis Mitchell. [New York Times: Arts] 'He nods and grins upon hearing a story about a Toronto festival screening this year; after the trailer thanking the volunteers didn't run, a patron piped up in the darkened theater, "What about the volunteers?" and the house rocked with appreciative applause.

"Only in Toronto; it's a considerate movie lover's town," he says. "It's nothing like the New York festival. That one's too stuffy for me." '

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Iraq agrees to weapons inspections. Iraq says it is ready to readmit UN weapons inspectors in a no-strings deal, but the US dismisses the offer as a "false hope". [BBC News | WORLD]

Not a helpful response from the Americans.

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Like I was saying . . .

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Good news from Sonic. We'll be waiting a while but at least they are starting to move.They're also working on the EDL slowdown issue which I've been complaining about. Great!

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