Canuck

  Monday, 28 October 2002

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Shields thrilled to receive Order of Canada's top honour VICTORIA -- Author Carol Shields says she found Canada a puzzling place when she arrived as a young bride from the United States in the mid-1950s.The Pulitzer Prize winner and Booker Prize nominee said Saturday she couldn't understand Canadian jokes, politics or literature.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

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A morality play for the nation RAY CONLOGUE talks to the screenwriter whose French-language miniseries is about to grip the whole country

By RAY CONLOGUE

-- The CBC has high hopes for Music Hall, the six-part Quebec miniseries that starts tomorrow. It's a brightly coloured, fast-moving drama about the struggle between Montreal's mafia and a nightclub owner who decides to go straight and promote real artists rather than gangsters' girlfriends.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]