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ENTERTAINMENT

Putting your home in a movie could earn you $2,000 a day
Financial Post
Newspaper classifieds entice readers to earn a few hundred dollars by working as extras on a movie set - but that money pales in comparison with what they could earn if their house turned the producers' heads.
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He's jazzing it up with 22,000 favorites
Toronto Star, April 23, 1985
Gene Miller slowly winds life back into an old 1920s Victrola.
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Realism, entertainment mark Laurier miniseries
Toronto Star, Dec. 27, 1986
Not everyone can brag that he's slept in Wilfrid
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Thornhill producer in spotlight after film gets critical acclaim
Toronto Star, Dec. 16, 1986
Dancing in The Dark, one of this year's most-talked-about films, has pulled Thornhill producer Anthony Kramreither out of the shadows and into the spotlight of fame.
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Piano is kid's work for 10-year-old winner
Toronto Star, March 7, 1989
Stewart Goodyear never knew his dad but he knows the kind of music his late father loved - it's the kind Stewart excels at.
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PROFILES

Plastic Kingdom
Financial Post, May 1994
Royal Plastics' Vic De Zen sets his sights on a worldwide empire of do-it-yourself plastic houses
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Controversial author would like to be remembered as 'a brother'
The Catholic Register, March 27, 1993
Ten years ago at the age of 75, De LaSalle Brother James Mangan became an overnight literary success when his first book, The Voyage of the Naparima, an emotional eyewitness account of the horrors of the Irish famine and forced immigration, became a controversial best-seller in Canada and in Ireland.
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Columbus, my great Uncle
Hamilton This Month Magazine, April 1987
Descendant Alex Roncari shares a thirst for discovery
The world is flat, Alex Roncari might say, for the purpose of debate. Then, the compact man would shift in his chair, stroke his goatee and deliver an eloquent argument in Italian-inflected tones.
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Angelo con brio!
Starweek Magazine, 1986
Politicians who once paid no attention to MTV anchor Angelo Persichilli now seek his advice on how to appeal to Metro's ethnic communities.
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Ben Mandelkern - Holocaust Survivor
Toronto Star, May 17, 1988
Seventy-two-year-old Holocaust survivor Ben Mandelkern says writing a book about Nazi-occupied Poland has brought back some painful memories.
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Star of the East may shine here
Toronto Sun, August 4, 1988
Hanae Mori, the star fashion designer of the East, has decided to set up shop in Canada sometime next year, in Toronto or Montreal.
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Building the city - and fortunes Toronto Star, June 4, 1992
Strong arms, hands of steel and a courage to undertake the most miserable job was a trademark of Italian laborers who came to Canada for a better life.
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Giant painting to boost Arctic
The Sunday Star, June 4, 1989
If a picture is worth a thousand words then painter Ken Kirkby's realist Isumataq ("The Big Painting") will read like a novel.
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