WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012 SECTION E
SCENE STEALER Belated recognition for a producer who helped bring scores of Canadian movies to the screen, from Quest for Fire to The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, E3
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& LIFE ENTERTAINMENT Timing the fashion market Designers show new collections weeks before clothes go on sale LEANNE DELAP SPECIAL TO THE STAR
Trying to corral designers into a cohesive and co-ordinated fashion week can be like herding cats. As soon as a rhythm is established, designers, being independent-minded creative types, find fresh ways of opting out. But on Thursday night, Greta Constantine, the designer duo of Stephen Wong and Kirk Pickersgill, will take showing off-schedule to a new extreme, debuting their spring-summer 2013 collection in the Distillery District just a few weeks before it lands in store. Another established design star, David Dixon, is planning his spring-summer show for Dec. 6 at the new development sales office in the lobby of the old Sutton Place Hotel. The timing of fashion shows in Canada is already out of whack. The runway season is already tremendously prolonged. AARON HARRIS/FOR THE TORONTO STAR
Greta Constantine designers Stephen Wong, left, and Kirk Pickersgill, right, get ready for Thursday’s fashion show in the Distillery District.
Travellin’ Mama set for next adventure Ontario mom who took family on year-long trip bound for Central America MICHELE HENRY LIFE REPORTER
Nancy Harper calls herself the “Travellin’ Mama” and for good reason — six years ago she packed up her young family and took them on a one-year, 80,000-plus kilometre adventure. Now’s she’s gearing for another odyssey. This weekend, Harper, 48, her husband Doog Farquhar, 49, and their daughters, Molly, 12, and Annie, 13, set off on a two-month back-packing excursion through Central America. Is she nuts? Maybe. Is she prepared?
For sure. Herewith, the journey-obsessed mom — Harper is the author of Travellin’ Mama: A Parent’s Guide to Ditching the Routine, Seeing the World and Taking the Kids Along for the Ride — explains her rationale for boldly going where most parents would never dare. Q: What is the motivation behind leaving your Elora, Ontario farm to “schlep” your children and husband on such a lengthy, possibly draining excursion? A: A lot of people ask me this. Like anything in life travelling with kids can be a pain. But there are lots of challenges in parenting no matter where you are.
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Two and a Half Men actor sees the light, but will CBS?
ROB SALEM
TRAVELLING continued on E8
The original cast of Two and a Half Men could soon be down a man and a half. Questions were reverberating on Tuesday about the appearance of Angus T. Jones, the 19-year-old half man of the TV show’s title, in a video in which he described the long-running CBS sitcom as “filth.” “If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop,” Jones said in a 14-minute video clip posted on YouTube on an apocalyptic religious channel called Forerunner Chronicles. “I don’t want to be on it. Please stop watching it and filling your head with filth.” Jones’s mother, Casey, has said that she fears her son is being “exploited” by the church. Accompanying the young actor in the video is his evident religious mentor,
Christopher Hudson, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor and conspiracy theorist who refers to himself as “The Forerunner.” Hudson’s stated beliefs characterize the re-election of Barack Obama as a sign of the End of Days, rapper Jay-Z as a Satan-worshipping Freemason and cannibalism as an inevitable outcome of New York’s post-hurricane gas-rationing. In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, Hudson said Jones was “cool and calm” and “doing very well.” “I’m impressed that this young man has the ability to deal with this situation in a responsible way,” Hudson said. “This young man is a noble young man. Because he is not just professing Christ with his words and saying that he’s a Christian, but he’s showing the proof.” THE HALF MAN continued on E4
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