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Maury Chaykin died yesterday.

A dual US/Canadian citizen, his career goes back to before he had a role on the quintessential Canadian TV show, The King of Kensington (he missed The Beachcombers). 

Jiam Gomeshi of CBC Radio One’s Q interviewed him in February of this year.

Of course, even if his name means nothing to you, you’ll recognize him from the roles he’s had in movies like Dances with Wolves, Whale Music, Entrapment or The Sweet Hereafter.

I was pleased to hear him mention — along with Whale Music — one of my favourite films among his favourites, too: the Diane Keaton-directed Unstrung Heroes, starring Andie MacDowell, John Turturro, Michael Richards and Nathan Watt.

61 is awfully young.

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Banner day for EMI: “OK Go Ditches Label Over YouTube Embedding Rights“

(Via @johnsgunn.)

“Failure is an option, but fear is not.” A great talk by James Cameron at TED, February, 2010; touches on his early love of science fiction, his love of diving, working with Stan Winston at Digital Domain, and his work on The Abyss, Titanic and Avatar.

It’s frightening how many of these I own.

Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Act 1 (of 3), is now on iTunes.

What are you people waiting for?!? It’s new, it’s only $1.99, and it’s by Joss Whedon! And don’t tell me you’ve already had your quota of sing-along super-villain internet serials for the summer, because I’ll suspect you’re lying.

There’s a Dr Horrible web site, too.

Last night we went to see Wall•E for a second time, because it was such a great flick.

We saw it at the cinema in Amherst, Nova Scotia, which is part of the Empire Theatre chain, the same chain that runs all of the cinemas in Moncton (Trinity Drive) and Dieppe (Crystal Palace).

When we got there the box office was closed; instead, all customers were to line up at the junk food counter, even if they only wanted tickets.

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