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painting a path to acceptance Cloverdale’s Cody Tresierra is one of seven painters taking part in a cross-country art campaign aimed at changing the public’s perception of what’s possible for disabled people. Tresierra, a quadriplegic, is a professional artist who paints by holding the brush with his mouth. More coverage, page 4. matt kieltyka/metro

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Oppal dismisses criticism of foray into film acting Missing-women inquiry commissioner Wally Oppal brushed aside criticism Thursday that his brief foray into film has interfered with the inquiry. Last week, Oppal played the role of a stockbroker killed by a vengeful investor during the filming of Uwe Boll’s The Bailout in Vancouver. “The B.C. Civil Liberties Association made the comment that I should have been working on the inquiry,” he said. “I do work on weekends, but I thought I might be entitled to a Sunday off to do this.” METRO/WITH FILES FROM THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Cody Tresierra used to get puzzled glances whenever he’d pull into a local painting class. After all, it’s not everyday you see a quadriplegic put a paintbrush in his mouth and get to work. But the Cloverdale resident said these days it’s harder to find people that are dumbfounded by his vivid landscapes and portraits. “Now it’s pretty accepted,” Tresierra said of his classmates. “They’re still a little bit surprised that I’m there, but once I get started I can pretty much keep up.” It’s a bit of an understatement from an artist fluent in the ways of a paintbrush. Since being hurt in a car accident, Tresierra has gone on to be a successful professional artist and is actively involved in the Mouth and Foot Painting Artists association (MFPA). He recently finished painting the first part of a cross-

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“I would paint every day even if no one saw my paintings and they ended up in the garage.” Cody Tresierra

painters across Canada are asked to paint something in their region that inspires them and pass it on to the next artist, like an art torch relay. Tresierra chose the totem poles at Stanley Park as his subject. His top-right-corner spot on the canvass, three by four feet, proved to be a challenge for someone in a wheelchair. But he managed to expertly pull the landscape off by turning the canvass sideways and upside down. “I’m really satisfied with it,” he said.

The finished piece will be unveiled in September for SelfHelp Awareness Week. “It just shows what people can be capable of — anyone,” he said. “The campaign is for Self-Help Awareness Week, that’s kind of what the MFPA is about. It’s about doing something for yourself and not staying home and feeling sorry for yourself. If you have an interest, pursue it.” Able-bodied people will surely be impressed, but Tresierra hopes that disabled people really take the campaign to heart. He initially struggled to paint using just his mouth, but with patience and perseverance, the payoff was worth it. “When you’re starting out you’re shaking, your strokes are pretty rough and crude,” he said. “A lot of it is for myself. But once you have people appreciate what you’ve done and respond to your work, there’s a lot of self-gratification. It kind of pumps you up inside and makes you feel good.”

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Barkhouse joined the MFPA in 1991 after a collision with a truck injured his spine and left him a quadriplegic. After becoming hooked on art, Barkhouse went on to become an award-winning painter, specializing in portraits and wildlife. His favourite subject is rural landscape near his home in Nova Scotia.

Guillemette was paralyzed from the neck down after diving into the St. Lawrence River at low tide in 1966. He has been painting since 1977. “My first landscape was not bad at all, so I decided to continue painting,” Guillemette said. He’s been a full member of the MFPA since 2004 and prefers painting landscapes in oils.

Daniel Laflamme of Quebec City

Born without the use of his upper limbs, Laflamme became inspired watching a telecast showing a young girl performing tasks with her feet. At the age of 24, he learned how to paint with his feet and had his first work reproduced as a greeting card in 1985. The Quebec countryside gives him constant material for paintings.

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Matthias excelled at art from an early age, despite being born without arms or legs. In 2000, one of her paintings won a national competition and was featured on a special Christmas stamp issued by Canada Post. A member of MFPA since 2009, Matthias also enjoys swimming and electricwheelchair floor hockey.

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Paralyzed from the neck down after an accident when she was 14, Oman started mouth painting after attending a lecture tour by late MFPA artist Myron Angus. Determined to try his painting technique, Oman began submitting work to the MFPA in 1978 and has since had her work featured in calendars and on cards. She also exhibits and sells landscape paintings on her own.

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Orichefsky, 22, was diagnosed with Arthrogrypopis at birth and needed surgery as a baby to lower her legs and feet to a normal level. She took art courses in college to improve her technique and currently has a scholarship from the MFPA to further her talents. Orichefsky even got to paint with Wayne Gretzky during a campaign for Ronald McDonald House.

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If it’s clear Saturday night — and that’s a big if — make sure to look to the east to catch the rising supermoon: The coincidence of the moon’s closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit and a full moon. UBC astronomer Peter Newbury said even though the last one was more than a year ago, it’s not a big deal, scientifically speaking. The moon Saturday night will be 13 per

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Documentary film festival. DOXA Review: Italy: Love It, or Leave It One gets the sense when watching DOXA’s nearly soldout Saturday offering, Italy: Love It, or Leave It, that the filmmakers are not entirely serious in asking the question. After all, what’s not to love? Italy is one of Europe’s crown jewels, with enough food, wine, art and architecture to warrant a 10-pound volume of Frommer’s. But the once-glorious empire has also become riddled with corruption, greed, sexism, discrimination and unmanaged waste. That, and persistent Silvio Berlusconi supporters. For those living in the economically collapsing country these days — particularly the young — it’s no prosciutto picnic. So native Luca Ragazzi sets out to take his foreigneducated partner, Gustav Hofer, on an insider’s tour of the boot-shaped bel paese in their vintage Fiat 500, to ask Italians whether and why

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they have any optimism left, and to convince Hofer not to split for Berlin. This film has moments that will shock you into laughter and silence you in disgust, but it also stands as a reminder of Italy’s timeless beauty and the tremendous perseverance of its people. Online tickets are sold out but advance and rush tickets may still be available. It plays at 4 p.m. on Saturday at Pacific Cinémathèque. kate webb/metro RATING (out of 5):

Spree of violence. Another area man shot to death An unidentified man has been found shot to death in a Surrey home — the week’s third gun-related fatality of a Vancouver-area resident. The violence comes just as Vancouver police have identified the victim of Wednesday’s drive-by shooting as 44-year-old gangster Ranjit Cheema. The well-known gangster was gunned down as he entered his vehicle on a residential street in east Vancouver. Const. Jana McGuinness

says people living in the neighbourhood have been shaken by the brazen hit, and that an innocent person could have been hurt. Police are asking anyone who may have seen a vehicle idling in the area over the last couple of weeks to contact them. Last Friday’s shooting death of Fraser Valley gangster Thomas Gisby at a Starbucks in Mexico has had the RCMP warning of possible retaliation. the canadian press

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Toews said police officers, firefighters and paramedics across the country will soon be able to communicate with each other in a more secure and less congested network as 10 MHz of the 700 MHz existing broadband spectrum will be set aside for publicsafety use. Vancouver police Chief Jim Chu said the network will be up and running in the next few years. PHYLICIA TORREVILLAS/metro

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Toronto mayor blacklists reporter he accuses of spying A different scrum. Police were called over an incident involving a Toronto Star reporter snooping around the mayor’s property Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he won’t talk to any media in the presence of a reporter he accuses of spying on his home. Ford told radio station AM640 this morning he wants Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale removed from covering city hall in light of last night’s confrontation. Police were called to the mayor’s west Toronto home after a neighbour saw someone who appeared to be in the mayor’s backyard with a recording device. The Star says Dale was on public property next to Ford’s home and was there to research a story about a piece of land Ford wants to buy. The paper says Dale was not there to harass Ford. A visibly angry Ford held a

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press conference outside his home on Wednesday night and said it’s unbelievable what the reporter did, adding when he confronted Dale, the journalist dropped his phone and recorder before running away. Dale’s version of events, posted on the Star’s website, says Ford yelled and charged

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Prosecution reveals evidence in Clemens’ trial For the first time Thursday, the jury in the Roger Clemens trial saw in person the physical evidence the government says will link the 11-time all-star baseball pitcher to anabolic steroids,

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Budget cuts resources for soldiers Public-service union officials say the Defence Department is cutting resources for mental health, even as suicide rates among soldiers are climbing. They say federal budget cuts are shutting down part of department’s program to monitor mental health and work on suicide prevention. The Professional Institute of the Public Service says experts who focus on post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injuries among soldiers are among those losing their jobs. the canadian press

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Work of art sells for historic price New York. Edvard Munch’s The Scream made history on Wednesday night when it became the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. After a fierce bidding war at Sotheby’s New York, the 1895 pastel went to an anonymous buyer for $119.9 million US. The auction house was thrilled at the “historic” price on a night when sales topped $330 million US. Simon Shaw, the head of

impressionist and modern art for Sotheby’s, said the painting was a good deal. “If ever there was a work of art of true shock and awe, it is Edvard Munch’s The Scream, which is not only one of the seminal images from art history, but also one of the visual keys to the modern consciousness.” The work is one of four versions by the Norwegian expressionist artist and was the only one still privately owned. It is regarded as the most prized of the four as a poem written by the artist is on the frame. metro

Scream-worthy poetry

“I was walking along the road with two friends. The Sun was setting — The Sky turned a bloody red And I felt a whiff of Melancholy — I stood Still, deathly tired — over the blue-black Fjord and City hung Blood and Tongues of Fire. My Friends walked on — I remained behind — shivering with Anxiety. I felt the great Scream in Nature.”

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angst and alienation. It marked a new phase at the start of the 20th century when artists began portraying their own emotions. What moral lessons can be found in it?

There is a comment on man’s relationship with nature, but also it is based on guilt. When Munch painted this his father had just died and his sister was in a lunatic asylum.

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Putting the ‘super’ in superhero films Roundup. Richard Crouse and Mark Breslin dish on their favourite vigilante features Richard: Mark, even though the ads guaranteed I would believe a man could fly, I’m not sure that my fifteen-year-old self actually thought Christopher Reeve was circling the earth in Superman: The Movie, but I do know I thought it was cool. And still do. I’ve seen it dozens of times and its blend of humour, action and nostalgia is worth its weight in Kryptonite. Mark: The first Superman movie was the platinum standard in superhero films: graceful, even poetic. The sequels ruined its goodwill, but the quality of the original cannot be denied. But

I think the world can be divided into two kinds of people: Superman people and Batman people, and I, Richard, seem to be a Batman person. Even the weakest in the Batman franchise still enthralls me; if we’re talking about Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, we may be talking Godfather-level cinema.

and Neeson is fantastic in it. Wish I could share your enthusiasm for Spider-Man but I spent the entire movie wishing the dweeb would grow a pair. More like Spider-Boy to me. The series I prefer is the X-Men franchise, which seems to get more sophisticated with each release. And the Wolverine spin-off is a definite fave.

RC: Of the big name superheroes we haven’t mentioned Spider-Man yet. I liked the first Sam Raimi web slinger movie, complete with Tobey Maguire and the upside down kiss, but even cooler is Darkman. Raimi created the Darkman character out of frustration after failing to get the screen rights to The Shadow and Batman. Liam Neeson plays the swashbuckling hero in this violent and funny movie.

RC: I liked Wolverine’s R-rated cameo in X-Men: First Class. Cool, underrated movie and his unfit-for-publication-in-afamily-paper-line is very memorable. Also memorable are a few movies about a lesser tier of superheroes. Everyone knows Batman and Superman, but how about Captain Invisible, the alcoholic hero who comes out of hiding to save America from destruction? Or the strange and funny Orgazmo from the twisted minds of South Park’s Matt Stone and Trey Parker?

MB: Darkman is a dark horse entry, but yes, it’s a good one

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D’Angelo is making his comeback: the reclusive singer will give his first U.S. performance in 10 years at the 2012 Essence Music Festival. D’Angelo will perform during the festival’s opening night. It runs from July 6 to July 8 in New Orleans and also features Trey Songz, Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige and many others. The soul singer’s latest album is 2000’s Voodoo. It went platinum and won two Grammy Awards, including best R&B album. His debut, 1995’s Brown Sugar, was also a platinum effort. Since that, D’Angelo has stepped away from the music scene, drawing attention for his run-ins with the law.

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••••• Great comic book movies, like great comic books, have to play their heroes and villains straight. The stakes have to be high and in the case of Marvel’s The Avengers, the fate of the planet literally hangs in the balance. The humour is innately there (a bunch of costumed superheroes hanging out together is already absurd) but in director Joss Whedon’s mammoth budgeted blockbuster, the humour is of the nudging, winking variety, almost as if Whedon is trying to convince the audience that he’s smarter than the material. It’s an obnoxious trait that bogs down what could have been a perfect mash up.

Stars. Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Ayelet Zurer

••••• Beth (Keaton) is devastated when her husband Joseph (Kline) loses her beloved dog. After an unsuccessful initial search, Beth and her search party do what all desperate dog-lovers do: they follow the advice of the gypsy caretaker who has “visions” of the dog’s whereabouts. Though it provided a few laughs, the subplot was ultimately unnecessary, considering the film is more about fostering relationships. Regan reid

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“It did actually really scare me to step into this world and I didn’t know that I could pull it off. It took some convincing from people like (co-star) Robert (Downey Jr.) and Joss. The thing that I was always worried about was just getting pigeon-holed by a big part like this. But now I’m at a point where I have a big enough body of work where this isn’t going to make me or break me, really. It’ll help, in a lot of ways.” Mark Ruffalo, talking about stepping into the role of the Hulk in The Avengers.

Legend of a Warrior. Doc breaks down tough guys Forged in a harsh Hong Kong ghetto, Frank Lee came to Canada in 1960 and worked overnights at the rough and tumble Phoenix Cafe in Edmonton. He was a waiter/busboy/ bouncer and, as miscreants soon found out, a very talented martial artist. When trouble started, he ended it. Tough as nails, the five-footseven 155-pounder never lost a fight. He went on to become a martial arts grandmaster out of the Edmonton gym dubbed Frank’s Torture Chamber. And he trained champions half a world away in Thailand and Hong Kong. Along the way, his family drifted apart. So son Corey — a filmmaker — set about to reconnect. In 2011, he started training under his father, returning to the martial arts he had abandoned more than two decades before. “He is my father. But I don’t really know the man. I only know the legend,” Corey says early on in Legend of a Warrior, which had its world premiere at the Hot Docs festival this week. Cameras captured their

time together over some seven months. “I was hoping for some level of healing and some level of understanding,” Corey, now 42, said in an interview this week. He got that and more in an emotional journey that is lovingly captured in the 78-minute documentary. The National Film Board project starts as a guarded father-son reunion in the ring at Frank’s gym. But emotional walls are torn down later in the film during a trip to Hong Kong, where Frank first studied martial arts after leaving China with his family at the age of nine. Tears flow as Frank rereads a letter he sent Corey from Hong Kong in February 1983 on yet another training mission that had taken him from his family. The man who can bend rebar with his neck or break cinder blocks with his hands cries as he laments the breakup of his family — or “crystal ball” as he calls it. It is heart-rending stuff and it’s a safe bet that many more tears will be shed by those watching it. The Canadian Press

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On the set of Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster art imitated life. The story of legendary Canadian bank robbers Edwin Boyd and Lenny Jackson is ripe with daring stick-ups, jailbreaks and gunfights, but despite a criminal partnership that made both men household names they weren’t close. “On a personal level I don’t think there was a whole lot of love there,” says Kevin Durand, who plays Jackson in the film. “They dealt with things in a different way. Lenny and Edwin had very different ways of approaching their job.” Durand and co-star Scott

Kevin Durand left, says that he and co-star Scott Speedman had a relationship similar to their characters.

Speedman, who plays Boyd, manifested that aloofness to create their characters on the Sault Ste. Marie set. “We definitely had respect for one another and we liked each other but we

didn’t go out of our way to hang out together,” Durand says. “It was interesting in the way it panned out because I ended up spending a lot of time with Val and Wille,

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(Joseph Cross and Brendan Fletcher). “Those were my guys and we literally became the gang. It was incredible because we were holed up in the north, in the cold, in

our little hotel rooms and we became this little tribe of ... I want to say thieves but we didn’t go thieving, but it felt very real.” The story may have come to life for Durand on set,

but he was unaware of the Boyd Gang’s exploits before he read the script. “I was really taken aback at how famous they were to another generation,” he says. “My Uncle Tom filled me in at a discussion at a family dinner. “He knew all about it and was really excited about me playing Lenny.” His uncle vividly remembered the gang’s early fifties heyday. “My uncle said, ‘My God, we were so terrified. I remember hiding in my bedroom hoping that the Boyd Gang wasn’t going to come in my window and rob me and kill me.’” Lenny and Edwin may have been bad guys, but that’s not exactly how Durand sees them. “The thing about these guys, like most bad guys, is that they are human and they are a product of their environment and their time,” he says. “You see them in the movie with their loved ones and you see the poetry of their lives. “The script really sucked me into that world.”

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Bird breaks through with Break It Yourself New music. Latest songs plot songwriter’s trajectory from a breakup in Chicago to a new life in New York linda laban

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One week after Andrew Bird filmed an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in Los Angeles, the singer-songwriter and violinist is back home in New York with his segment due to air that night. Apart from Saturday Night Live, Bird has done just about all the late night TV shows. “Colbert was a high point,” he says, admitting he’s a big Stephen Colbert fan. He’s confident that SNL will hap-

pen “in due time.” And Bird is due. Break It Yourself has just been released. “I call it my ninth album,” Bird says. “It’s the ninth album that’s had a cycle to it. There’s been a live record and soundtracks. If you count them all up, there’s probably 15 or 16.” That includes his pre-solo outfit Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire, which highlighted the 38-year-old’s love of pre-

war jazz before his singersongwriter turn. Bird’s future work, however, might take yet another musical twist. “I continue to write songs that make sense as an Andrew Bird record, but I hear things that I don’t know how to pull off yet. All I can say is what I am hearing is less poporiented and more devotional or religious. Not religious in the sense of ‘Jesus I love you,’” he emphasizes.

“It seems like it might be time to do something a little different.” The antisocial network Andrew Bird is a Chicago native, but has called New York City home for almost two years. Break It Yourself plots his trajectory from a breakup to a new life there. “I don’t tend to write songs where there’s any mention of breaking any hearts. There’s a theme on the record of being self-contained, self-satisfied, I suppose. “A lot of New Yorkers are experts at that. I’m puzzling through whether that’s a

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virtue, not needing anyone else. I’ve got my own solitary, antisocial leanings. I’m kind of questioning those on the record.”

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Ever since Tupac’s hologram resurrection at Coachella last month, people have been talking about the potential for this technology. “Bring Michael Jackson back and the Jacksons can restage the Victory Tour of 1984!” they say. The original line-up of The Who could do another farewell tour. What would it be like to have Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix in the same band at a show? Reuters recently asked 1,100 people whom they

would most like to see return from the dead. The answer was Ray Charles. Some critics find this most distressing and I understand that. But we’ve been moving down this road towards virtual performers for decades. Today, fans expect pitch-perfect note-for-note renditions of their favourite songs in concert and (where applicable) all kinds of dancing, special effects and costume changes. The only way to do that is with Auto-Tune and backing tracks. We live in a computer generated imagery world where technology blurs reality on TV screens, in theatres, in amusement parks and on computers. Why wouldn’t this be extended to the realm of live concerts? Besides, don’t we believe that all celebrities are fake, anyway?

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From Jessie’s Girl to Hot Docs — Rick keeps rockin’ Rick Springfield. At 61, the ’80s star won’t do reality TV, but he is writing a series that he hopes to play the lead in Rocker and former soap heartthrob Rick Springfield says he’s angling to return to the small screen and is writing an edgy dramatic series in which he hopes to star. The Australian-born ’80s singer says he’s been working on several TV scripts ever since he wrote a tell-all book that was released in 2010. Springfield says he’d like to do a lot more acting after recent cameos that included the raunchy specialty series Californication, the geriatric sitcom Hot in Cleveland and a brief return to General Hospital where he reprised his role as the hunky Dr. Noah Drake. So far, Springfield says most of his offers come from reality television but he’s sworn off the genre. “I’ve been offered those so

many friggin’ times,” Springfield said during a recent stop in Toronto for the Canadian International Documentary Festival. “And (I’ll) never (do) Dancing With the Stars. My wife said she’d divorce me if I ever did that. They ask me every year.” The 61-year-old still performs between 70 and 100 concerts a year and is gearing up to release a new album in the fall. At the core of his fanbase is a group of ardent followers who trace their devotion to the early ’80s, when Springfield broke onto the charts with his infectious smash Jessie’s Girl. Their unwavering loyalty — and sometimes-disturbing devotion — is the focus of the documentary An Affair of the Heart, which had its Canadian premiere at the Hot Docs festival earlier this week. Another screening is set for Thursday. Amid plenty of concert footage, interviews and nostalgic looks back at Springfield’s heydays, director Sylvia Caminer tracks down several “Rick-a-

holics” and traces the myriad ways in which they connect with his music and have even managed to bond with the star himself. “Some people have an addiction to cocaine, people like me have an addiction to Rick Springfield,” one fan declares in a voiceover. It’s soon clear she’s not alone. Stay-at-home moms Sue and Joanne make a point of catching a Springfield-related event as often as

every month, with one husband bemoaning: “She wakes up and it’s Rick, Rick, Rick until she goes to bed.” Meanwhile, an interfaith minister credits one of Springfield’s harder-rocking albums with helping her cope with the suppressed anger she felt after a brutal sex assault. Throughout, Springfield makes a point of showing supporters he doesn’t take their loyalty for granted. He hosts an annual music cruise,

invites fans to pre-concert soundchecks and, in the case of one longtime admirer, even emailed to offer condolences when he heard her husband had died. Springfield says he owes his career to loyal fans who stuck with him through the decades, even after he withdrew from the spotlight in a deep depression that followed his meteoric rise. Back when he started out, Springfield says he was more

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Cut it out Cameron, it’s just some hair A recent rushed visit to a hairdresser friend left Cameron Diaz with much shorter locks than expected — and tears in her eyes. “I started crying. I felt so vulnerable. For a woman to all of a sudden have no hair — oh my God,” she tells Jay Leno during an interview. “There was a little misunderstanding. I said I just want a little bit cut off.” But a bit quickly turned into a bob, which turned traumatic for all involved. “She started crying. I started crying. A couple other people started crying. I ended up writing her a few emails over the next few days assuring her I was OK,” Diaz says.

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Lagerfeld that could be construed as homophobic.) Overwhelmingly negative responses to the advertisement prompted Popchips to remove it from YouTube and Facebook a day after it was released. “The new Popchips worldwide dating video and ad campaign featuring four characters was created to provoke a few laughs and was never intended to stereotype or offend anyone,” a company rep said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter. Here’s the thing someone should have told Popchips: Kutcher can’t act. At all. His version of “acting” is basically over the top parody — all the time. So when he gets tapped to portray someone of a different race, even in a comedic role, of course it will be seen as mockery/ racism. The only actor who could tackle this without getting in trouble? Sir Ben Kingsley. Popchips, get that guy on the phone ASAP.

Lady Gaga and boyfriend Taylor Kinney have reportedly called it quits, with the culprit being the singer’s hectic schedule, according to Us Weekly. “She will be touring nonstop until next year and has found she can’t have a relationship at the same time,” a source says of Gaga, who is about to embark on a 110-stop tour. “There’s just no room for anything else. Her work is all-consuming.” Of course, to hear the source tell it, the relationship might not have lasted much longer on its own, anyway. “Taylor was all about himself, a typical actor, and didn’t completely get Gaga,” the source says.

Miley makes a dog Happy Miley Cyrus added a fourth dog to her pet roster after finding a Rottweiler-Beagle mix abandoned outside a shopping centre, she revealed on Twitter. “He was left in a box in front of Walmart,” Cyrus posted. “I don’t understand how people can be so cruel. That’s why we named him Happy.” Cyrus spent the rest of the day posting photos of Happy enjoying his new environment.

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I’ve had a long standing respect for tequila, but the distilled output of agave plants is by no means the only booze stamped “Made in Mexico”. With Cinco de Mayo celebrations a day away and Salma Hayek shilling for Burger King, south of the border (the American one at least) things are heating up. Sadly, the country’s superstar brand — Corona Extra (6x330 ml, $12.95 - $14.09) — gets a bum rap from beer aficionados thanks to its lean-bodied flavour and clear glass bottle (which fanatics swear allows natural light to affect its flavour). Whatever you believe, Corona is a great beer to have with any food that’s eclectic — especially if it’s spicy. Of course, the last thing I would do is allow a bartender to jam a wedge of lime into any Corona bottle I’ve ordered. They may seem to go together like Brad and Angelina but the union of lime and liquid really began as a way to keep flies out of an opened bottle. It turns out that the acidity in the citrus makes them bug off. PRICES REFLECT THE RANGE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. SOME PRODUCTS MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE IN ALL PROVINCES.

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This recipe serves six. MATTHEW MEAD/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Carne Asada with Confetti Salsa. The combination of fruity salsa & marinated meat makes this the perfect Mexican meal The more time the sirloin tips bathe in this recipe’s punchy marinade of lime juice, Worcestershire sauce and garlic, the better. So while it calls for marinating the meat for about two hours, don’t hesitate to toss them in as you head out to work in the morning. You’ll be rewarded when you get home and crank up the grill. To save time, you could sub-

stitute a mango or other fruity jarred salsa for the one made as part of this recipe. If you have time, this salsa is a chunky hodge-podge of bell pepper, tomatillos, avocado, mango, tomato and red onion, with a bit of heat from a chipotle chili in adobo.

1. In a large zip-close bag, combine the sirloin tips, lime juice, salt, Worcestershire sauce, olive oil, black pepper and garlic cloves. Shake to coat the meat. Refrigerate for two hours.

2. Meanwhile, in a large bowl

combine the bell pepper, tomatillos, avocado, mango, tomato, red onion, chipotle, adobo sauce, garlic, lime juice and cilantro. Stir well, then season

with salt and black pepper. Refrigerate for 30 minutes before serving.

When ready to cook the steak, heat a grill to high.

4. Drain the meat, discarding

the marinade. Use paper towels to pat the meat dry. Sear on the grill, about four minutes per side for medium-rare. Serve with the confetti salsa. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ingredients For the meat: • 2 pounds sirloin tips • 2 tbsp lime juice • 1 tsp salt • 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce • 2 tbsp olive oil • 1 tsp black pepper • 2 cloves garlic, smashed For the salsa: • 1 yellow pepper, cored, diced • 3 tomatillos, diced

• 1 avocado, pitted and diced • 1 mango, pitted and diced • 1 large tomato, diced • 1/2 small red onion, diced • 1 chipotle in adobo sauce, minced • 1 tbsp adobo sauce • 1 garlic clove, minced • 3 tablespoons lime juice • 1/4 cup chopped cilantro • Salt and ground black pepper

Cinco de Mayo celebrates the victory of the Mexican Army over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Celebrations include not only wonderful Mexican foods, but also parades, mariachi music and folk dancing. Traditional Mexican cuisine varies vastly from region to region in Mexico. The earliest Mexican agricultural staples were beans, squash and chili peppers, with corn arriving some 2,000 years later. Staples expanded to include avocados, coconuts, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, peanuts, chia seeds, and more varieties of beans. The herb of choice was usually epazote, similar to cilantro in its strong, pungent flavours. Meanwhile, meats included turkeys, ducks, quail, peccaries, pigeons, and a wide variety of fish and shellfish. Early traditional dishes included atole (porridge), tortilla, tamales (filled pastries, both savory and sweet) and soups. The cuisine has expanded to include a wide variety of dishes way beyond burritos, tacos and salsa. METRO

Mole Chicken Enchiladas. Made easy 1. In blender, combine onion,

garlic, almond butter, water, broth, tomatoes, bread, hot sauce, cocoa powder, chili powder, cumin, cinnamon and lime juice. Blend until smooth, then transfer to sauté pan. Bring to simmer over medium heat, stirring often, and cook for eight minutes. Taste, then season with salt and pepper.

2. Add chicken to pan and stir well. Return to simmer and cook just until heated through. 3.

Wrap tortillas in damp paper towel, then microwave for 20 seconds, or until tender.

This recipe serves four. MATTHEW MEAD/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

4. One at a time, spoon some

of the mole chicken filling down the centre of each tortilla. Roll, then arrange on a serving platter. Repeat with remaining tortillas and filling.

Spoon a bit more of the filling over the rolled enchiladas, then crumble the queso blanco over them. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Ingredients • 1 small onion, quartered • 1 clove garlic • 1 cup almond butter • 1 cup water • 1/2 cup chicken broth • 1/2 cup diced tomatoes • 1 slice soft sandwich bread • 1 tbsp hot sauce • 1 tbsp cocoa powder • 1 tsp ancho chili powder • 1/2 tsp ground cumin

• 1/4 tsp cinnamon • Juice of 1 lime • Salt and black pepper • Meat from a 2-lb rotisserie chicken, pulled into bite-size pieces • 8 corn tortillas • 1/2 cup crumbled queso blanco cheese (shredded cheddar or Jack cheese can be substituted)

Cinco de Mayo goes sweet with recipe for Mexican chocolate honey cake

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Getzlaf to captain team Canada Ryan Getzlaf will wear the “C” for Canada at the IIHF World Hockey Championship. The veteran forward from Regina was selected as captain during a team meeting on the eve of the tournament. Getzlaf is also the captain of the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks and is one of three members of the Canadian team that won gold at the 2010 Olympics. Dion Phaneuf and Patrick Sharp will serve as alternate captains. Canada opens the tournament Friday against Slovakia. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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“I’m sorry to say, Superman is dead. All of us can appear to be super, but all of us need to reach out and find support when we’re hurting.” Shawn Mitchell, a chaplain for the San Diego Chargers, Junior Seau’s former team. The San Diego County medical examiner’s office ruled Seau’s death a suicide on Thursday. The autopsy said Seau died of a gunshot wound to the chest. The medical examiner’s office was awaiting a decision by the family Thursday on whether to turn over Seau’s brain to unidentified outside researchers for study. Seau died Wednesday in his home in suburban Oceanside, Calif.

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Kings take 3-0 lead Drew Doughty had a goal and two assists, Jonathan Quick made 18 saves and the Los Angeles Kings moved to the brink of an unlikely second-round sweep with a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues in Game 3 on Thursday night. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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‘We have a good series now’: Giroux Andy Greene rushes to congratulate Devils teammate Alexei Ponikarovsky after his goal in overtime on Thursday night. JULIO CORTEZ/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NHL. Overtime win puts New Jersey into driver’s seat vs. Philly Alexei Ponikarovsky scored on his own rebound with 2:39 left in overtime and the New Jersey Devils defeated the Philadelphia Flyers, 4-3, Thursday night to take a 2-1 lead in this Eastern Conference semifinal series. Patrik Elias, Ilya Kovalchuk and Zach Parise also scored for the Devils, who killed off two penalties in overtime before Ponikarovsky came through with his first goal of the postseason on a backhander that sneaked past Ilya Bryzgalov on his left side. “I didn’t have time to celebrate because everyone

jumped on me right away, but I had a great time in the pile,” said Ponikarovsky, whose goal was set up by a wonderful pass from Kovalchuk that forged a 2-on-1 break into the zone. Martin Brodeur made 25 saves for New Jersey, which will look to take a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series Sunday in East Rutherford. Kovalchuk, who missed Game 2 with a lower-body injury, also had two assists in his return with none more important than his pass that caught the Flyers on a bad change. “You feel pressure,” Kovalchuk said after watching the Devils win Game 2 while he nursed a back injury. “The guys played so well, and you want to get back in the lineup because you just want to play.” Kovalchuk more than

Game 3

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showed he was ready, though. Danny Briere, Matt Carle and Brayden Schenn tallied for the Flyers. Bryzgalov had 27 saves. “We’re down 2-1, the pressure is on us,” Flyers forward Claude Giroux said. “There is no guy on this team that is going to quit. It’s going to be a wake-up call. “We have a good series now.” Schenn nearly won the game eight minutes into over-

time with a deflection in front, and then the Devils’ penalty kill did an outstanding job after a controversial boarding call against Dainius Zubrus with 11:37 left in the overtime and a delay-of-game penalty against Bryce Salvador. New Jersey had problems with its short-handed lines in Round 1 versus Florida, but the unit that was ranked No. 1 in the regular season appears to have regained its form. “I think the power play won us a lot of games this year and tonight wasn’t the case,” Giroux said. “We have to do a better job.” The power play is actually killing the Flyers, who are 2-for-16 in this series after going 12-for-23 against the Penguins.

Ryan Getzlaf. CHRISTIAN PETERSEN/GETTY IMAGES FILE

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Torres to appeal 25-game ban Phoenix Coyotes forward Raffi Torres is appealing the length of his 25-game suspension. Torres was penalized last month after landing a late hit on Chicago forward Marian Hossa. Torres and the NHLPA will meet with commissioner Gary Bettman about the length of the suspension, but not the ban itself. The NHLPA said there’s no date for the meeting, but the collective bargaining agreement stipulates the commissioner “will endeavour to rule promptly on any such appeal.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Heat beat up on short-handed Knicks

Miami’s LeBron James guards Carmelo Anthony in New York on Thursday night. JEFF ZELEVANSKY/GETTY IMAGES

LeBron James scored 32 points, including eight straight to start the fourth quarter and break open the game, and the Miami Heat took a 3-0 lead, sending the New York Knicks to an NBA post-season-record 13th straight loss, with a 87-70 win on Thursday night. James had 17 points in the final period for the Heat, who held the short-handed Knicks to eight field goals in the second half and will go for the sweep Sunday afternoon. Dwyane Wade added 20 points for the Heat and Mario Chalmers had 19, hitting consecutive three-pointers in the

fourth quarter when the Heat finally brought some beauty to what had been an ugly game. Carmelo Anthony scored 22 points on seven of 23 shots for the Knicks, who are playing without Amare Stoudemire, Jeremy Lin and Iman Shumpert and needed a super effort from Anthony he didn’t come close to providing. The Knicks broke the record set by Memphis from 2004-06. They haven’t won a playoff game since April 29, 2001, Game 3 of a best-of-five series against Toronto. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bosh a dad

• Chris Bosh was in the starting lineup Thursday night, hours after returning home for the birth of his son. • Bosh’s wife Adrienne gave birth to the couple’s ﬁrst child, a boy named Jackson, around 3 a.m. Thursday in Miami. • Bosh ﬂew more than 5,500 kilometres in a span of 24 hours to be there.

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Riders make Heenan No. 1 as expected

‘It felt like it was never going to end’ The Rangers celebrate Marian Gaborik’s goal in triple overtime on Wednesday night in Washington. Patrick McDermott/Getty Images

NHL. New York and Washington rest up after gruelling triple overtime Game 3 The New York Rangers played what amounted to two games over two days just to get one win against the Washington Capitals. Each team scored a goal in the second period, then skated the ice for the next 83 minutes before Marian Gaborik gave the Rangers a 2-1 victory at 14:41 of the third overtime to end the 20th longest game in the history of the Stanley Cup playoffs, a matchup that began Wednesday night and spilled into Thursday. If it was the decisive game of

the series, Rangers coach John Tortorella might have been more enthusiastic. Instead, he looked at the win for what it was: A gritty performance that gave New York a 2-1 lead in a best-of-seven that doesn’t seem likely to end anytime soon. “It’s one game,” Tortorella said in a conference call Thursday. “You take the good things out of it and try to keep momentum on your side.” It’s impossible to say whether the good vibes the Rangers

gained with the win will carry into Saturday, when the teams meet in Washington for Game 4. “We have confidence in our team,” Washington’s Troy Brouwer said. “I mean, if we continue playing like we did, creating offence, blocking shots, you know, playing good, patient hockey, we’ll be successful.” Capitals coach Dale Hunter played in a four-overtime game and now has stood behind the bench in a three-overtime

Quoted

“It’s nice that both teams get two days to recoup. This way, they both get to come back and get two days’ rest and you see a better hockey game.” Capitals coach Dale Hunter, on recovering for Saturday’s Game 4.

thriller. He lost both games, but neither of them ended a series. “Well, you go into triple overtime it’s a special game,” Hunter said in the wee hours Thursday. “But it’s just one game and you’ve got to bounce back.” Gaborik won it in the 115th minute. The game started at 7:40 p.m. ET on Wednesday and ended at 12:14 a.m. Thursday. Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist was too exhausted to let out a yell afterward. More than excitement, he experienced relief. “It’s a feeling where, usually, I scream because I’m so excited. I was just too tired,” Lundqvist said after his 45-save performance. “I kept saying, ‘Oh my God, it’s over.’ I mean, oh my God. It felt like it was never going to end.” the associated press

Every time Saskatchewan Roughriders general manager Brendan Taman looked for the top player in the 2012 CFL draft, he always returned to the one in his own backyard. So when Taman decided to keep the first pick overall, he did the expected Thursday and used it on Saskatchewan Huskies offensive lineman Ben Heenan. “The only way we weren’t going to go that way was if we traded the pick, and actually at two points we were getting pretty close to doing something.” The six-foot-four, 310-pound Heenan spent the season as the top-ranked draft prospect. The B.C. Lions acquired the No. 2 selection from Edmonton and used it on Jabar Westerman, a defensive lineman from Eastern Michigan. Edmonton took Austin Pasztor with the Lions’ fourth-overall pick, a sixfoot-seven, 306-pound offensive lineman at Virginia. But they’ll have to wait for the native of Langton, Ont., who signed a free-agent deal with the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings. The Calgary Stampeders,

Quoted

“Now we can get back to focusing on the real part and that’s football again.” Ben Heenan on being chosen by the Roughriders with the No. 1 pick.

who also looked to move up to No. 2 or No. 3 for a shot at Westerman, used the fifthoverall pick to take Montreal’s Ameet Pall, a six-foot, 245-pound pass-rushing specialist who played at Wofford. Edmonton followed at No. 6, taking Laurier receiver Shamawd Chambers, who will attend the Philadelphia Eagles’ mini-camp. However, Chambers is expected to be back in Canada sometime this year and the speedy sixfoot-three, 219-pound native of Markham, Ont., has definite big-play ability. B.C. completed the opening round by shoring up its offensive line, adding Kirby Fabien, a six-foot-six, 295-pound Calgary native who played for the Calgary Dinos. The canadian press

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