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Vice City's violence hooks 'em Calgary Herald Sunday, November 10, 2002 Page: D1 / FRONT Section: Arts & Style Byline: NICK LEWIS Source: Calgary Herald Last night Jeremy Hartman scored some cocaine, enjoyed a hooker's services in a back alley, carjacked a Buick and bludgeoned a cop. Hartman has spent barely a week roaming Vice City, but he's loved every moment. He can do anything he ever wanted in this video-game metropolis -- steal cars, blow up a mall, hook up with biker gangs, run an adult film studio, rob a bank or drive his car over pedestrians. "There's nothing like it out there," the 27-year old graphic design student says. "A lot of games don't go all the way. This one does." Grand Theft Auto: Vice City has been the most eagerly anticipated video-game title of the year. Its predecessor, Grand Theft Auto III, has sold 8 million copies...
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Bryan Adams: How a Canadian blue-collar rocker became a stylish Euro jet-7setter Calgary Herald Sunday, November 9, 2003 Page: E1 / FRONT Section: Arts & Style Byline: Nick Lewis Some say the turn came in 1992, around the time the Canadian government decided Bryan Adams wasn't very Canadian. All 15 songs on his 11-million-seller, Waking Up The Neighbours album had been declared un-Canadian by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), which meant they could only enjoy limited airplay on Canadian FM radio stations. It was because the Kingston-born singer's songs had been co-written with his British producer, the future Mr. Shania Twain, Mutt Lange. Adams lashed out, saying the Canadian content rules, which demand that 30 per cent of content be Canadian, breed mediocrity by giving young acts profiles they don't deserve. "So Bryan Adams, who is Canadian, has a Canadian passport and pays taxes in Canada is not...
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Free-spirit Fonda doesn't look back: Remastered directorial debut a glimpse of actor's early rebellious days Calgary Herald Thursday, October 3, 2002 Page: E7 Section: Arts & Style Byline: Nick Lewis The black sheep of the Fonda clan answers the phone in his hotel room with his mouth full of pasta, and between the wet sounds of smacking lips, mumbles something incomprehensible when asked if this is a bad time to talk. Fifteen minutes later, he is a more able conversationalist, although on this afternoon, Peter Fonda sounds very much like Captain America, his stoner-hippie-biker character from 1969's Easy Rider. "Understated?" he'll slur a little later in the interview. "The critics liked my incredibly understated performance in (1997's) Ulee's Gold? I remember thinking, where were they when I did Easy Rider? I mean, you want to talk understated? "This is my dialogue from Easy Rider: 'Wow, man. I mean, that's far...
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