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Who Wants to Live Forever?
The premise of this movie is simple. You can live forever, but it has consequences and it always comes down to good versus evil. It is the story of Connor Macleod who was born in 1518 in Scotland. In 1536, after facing a mysterious, evil opponent, he survives a fatal stab wound and is banished from his village, for they believe his survival is the work of the Devil.Five years later,[...]
Peter Falk: 1928 - 2011
"There's just one more thing" was the famous line delivered by Peter Falk, in the role for which he will forever be remembered, the cigar smoking, wrinkled trench coat wearing Lieutenant Columbo. The series ran on NBC from 1971 to 1978. Falk of course had other rolls in movies like 1960's Murder, Inc. and 1961's Pocketful of Miracles, both of these movies saw Falk nominated for Academy[...]
A Contractual Hit on Death
Written near the end of the fourteenth century, The Canterbury Tales is a collection of Middle English stories by Geoffrey Chaucer about a diverse group of individuals of different social classes on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. During their travels, they tell tales of love and death, but most notably of them all, is the Pardoners Tale, which tells the story of three men who set out on a[...]
Marshall McLuhan is still relevant in our Global Village
Terms like "The medium is the message" and "global village", are phrases that are commonplace in our internet world. The origin of these expressions come from a little office at St. Michael's College on the University of Toronto campus and date back to the 1960s. Marshall McLuhan, professor,[...]
A Look Behind the Curtains of the Funeral Industry
For Tom Jokinen, the decision to devote eight months handling coffins, corpses and embalming fluid wasn't a career move set in marble. It wasn't like he woke one morning with an epiphany to his life's true calling. In fact, the decision to quit his job as a CBC radio producer in order to become an[...]
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