tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28903568290082218132024-02-20T21:23:37.499-08:00Libraries Aren't Just Books AnymoreA librarian's look at Viewers' Advisory and more.Librarygirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15455352027109898676noreply@blogger.comBlogger268125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890356829008221813.post-46888178847898042262017-05-01T16:00:00.004-07:002017-05-01T16:33:13.698-07:00I haven't posted for a while, but great news about a new Canadian Detective Show coming in the fall<div style="background-color: #fafafa; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "merriweather sans", helvetica, roboto, arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 54.3rem; padding: 0px; width: 968px;">
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Production has begun on a new Toronto-made detective drama starring a veteran Canadian actress, a former <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Degrassi</em> kid and a one-time <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Coronation Street</em> regular.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">The Detail</em> stars Wendy Crewson (<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Saving Hope</em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Room</em>), Shenae Grimes-Beech (<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Degrassi: The Next Generation</em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">90210</em>) and Angela Griffin (<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Coronation Street</em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Inspector Lewis</em>) as female homicide detectives.</div>
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The series comes from the producing and writing team behind CTV medical drama <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Saving Hope</em>, including co-showrunners Ley Lukins (<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Lost Girl</em>) and Adam Pettle (<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">King</em>). It’s produced by Ilana Frank’s ICF Films in association with Entertainment One and CTV.</div>
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Grimes-Beech stars as Jacqueline “Jack” Cooper, described in a news release as a street smart detective with a messy personal life. Griffin is her mentor, Detective Stevie Hall, and Crewson is their boss, Staff Inspector Fiona Currie.</div>
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Other cast members include Canadian actors David Cubitt (<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Medium</em>), David Ferry (<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Boondock Saints</em>), Matthew Edison (<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">The Girlfriend Experience</em>), Al Mukadam (<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Second Jen</em>) and Matt Gordon (<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Rookie Blue</em>), and American actor Ben Bass (<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Rookie Blue</em>).</div>
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The 10-episode drama is shooting in Toronto to air as part of CTV’s 2017/18 season. It has also been picked up by ION Television in the U.S.</div>
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Librarygirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15455352027109898676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890356829008221813.post-22216883261589129162016-09-15T06:07:00.000-07:002016-09-15T06:07:51.301-07:00A hundred years on from Agatha Christie’s first novel, crime fiction is going cosy again Hercule Poirot and Miss Marples are among golden age sleuths giving new inspiration to a genre tired of alcoholic divorcees and goth hackers.<br />
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Forget domestic noir and put down all those books with “Girl” in the title. Crime fiction is turning back the clock to its golden age with a host of books that pay homage to the genre’s grande dame, <a class="u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/agathachristie"><span style="color: #005689;">Agatha Christie</span></a>, either intentionally or in spirit.<br />
Last week saw the publication of <em><span style="font-family: Thread-00002c0c-Id-0000000f;">Closed Casket</span></em>, <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/05/poirot-returns-exclusive-extract-from-closed-casket-by-sophie-hannah" title=""><span style="color: #005689;">Sophie Hannah’s second Hercule Poirot</span></a> book, which “continues” the great sleuth’s life of solving crimes. The book has been published to coincide with what would have been the author’s birthday and to commemorate <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.agathachristiefestival.com/" title=""><span style="color: #005689;">100 years since she wrote her first published novel</span></a>.<br />
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In October Hodder & Stoughton will bring out chatshow host Graham Norton’s first novel, <em><span style="font-family: Thread-00002c0c-Id-0000000f;">Holding</span></em>, described as a story of “love, secrets and loss” centring around a crime in a small village in Ireland. In May, Bloomsbury publishes Plum Sykes’s <em><span style="font-family: Thread-00002c0c-Id-0000000f;">Party Girls Die In Pearls</span></em>, the first of a new crime series billed as “Agatha Christie meets <em><span style="font-family: Thread-00002c0c-Id-0000000f;">Clueless</span></em>”, and Orion has just announced a deal with bonkbuster queen Tilly Bagshawe to write a new “cosy” crime series as MB Shaw. Meanwhile, reprints of 30s and 40s crime classics are continuing to sell well and HarperCollins has just commissioned writer and theatre-maker Stella Duffy to complete an unfinished novel by New Zealand crime writer Ngaio Marsh, set during the second world war.<br />
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So why does crime’s golden era continue to exert such a pull? Hannah says it’s largely down to our desire to be entertained.<br />
“I think the resurgence in the popularity of golden age crime fiction is partly down to the fact that we do, at some level, like to have that satisfaction of having a story told to us in a very overtly story-like way,” she says. “Inherent in golden age crime writing is the message: ‘This is a great story and you will have fun reading it’.”<br />
It also helps that Christie was a genius, she says. “She really, really put the story above everything else … you’re so gripped by the mystery that you never guess what’s coming and are always pleasantly shocked by the ending.”<br />
Bagshawe, whose new series about amateur sleuth and portrait painter Iris Grey was inspired by Christie, agrees. “I came up with the idea for this series because a whole bunch of publishers were asking me to write a sexy psychological thriller and I practically passed out with boredom,” she says. “Soon after that I re-read Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple short stories and was really struck by how beautifully drawn the character is. It’s a wonderful character study of a woman who is constantly underestimated because of her age and her gender.”<br />
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She was keen to differentiate her heroine from all the troubled “Girls” dominating crime fiction. “I really wanted to write a series about a woman who was in her 40s, who didn’t have an addiction or an unhappy marriage or a messy life, who wasn’t unreliable. She’s just a woman in her 40s who’s good at noticing things. That’s her tic.”<br />
David Brawn, estates publisher at HarperCollins, says that the resurgence of interest in the golden age is largely driven by practical concerns. “One of the main reasons behind the sudden popularity of crime from this period is that modern publishing and new technology allows for shorter runs in printing, which means that we can now mine backlists that would previously have been unprofitable,” he says. “We’ve had a lot of success with the <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.booksmonthly.co.uk/codeclub.html" title=""><span style="color: #005689;">Detective Story Club imprint</span></a>, which tries to bring some of the best less well-known writers of the Christie era to public attention.”</div>
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There’s also a growing appetite at publishing houses for books by modern authors who can put their own spin on the golden age genre.<br />
Alexandra Pringle, editor-in-chief at Bloomsbury, says that it bought Sykes’s series – which follows two undergraduates, one British and one a more worldly American, as they solve crimes in 1980s Oxford – because “it felt as if Dorothy Parker or Nancy Mitford were to try their hand at an Agatha Christie … subversive, wickedly funny and modern”.<br />
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Sykes herself says she’s a huge Christie fan who wanted “to take what I know I can do, which is high-society comedy and romance, and then add mystery to the mix”.<br />
That said, Brawn warns that Christie’s deceptively simple style is not easy to get right. “There are definite challenges for modern authors. These days, crime writers rely a lot on police procedurals and technology, and to write a good golden age novel you really have to unlearn those things and embrace the disciplines of the golden age, which really centre around plot and character.”<br />
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The real appeal with Christie is that not only are they really good stories but there’s a lot going on under the surface, he says. “They’re sometimes unfairly dismissed as being a bit safe compared with today’s crime thrillers, but in reality there’s a lot of darkness there.”<br />
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James Prichard, Christie’s great grandson and the chairman of <a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.agathachristie.com/about-agatha-christie-limited" title=""><span style="color: #005689;">Agatha Christie Ltd</span></a>, agrees. “There’s a terrible tendency to see golden age crime as cosy crime, but I think it’s pretty evident that my great-grandmother found murder a serious and horrific business,” he says. “The reason that these books have lasted and that so many people still read or try to emulate them today is because the plots stand up. People enjoy the puzzle elements in them and they like the fact that you might feel a little uncomfortable, but never so uncomfortable that you can’t go on.”<br />
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</section><section class="article-body" itemprop="articleBody">Financially savvy individuals know better than to dive headfirst into a dying industry. When a job breathes its last breath, employees will be left<a href="http://www.wisebread.com/escape-your-dying-industry-with-one-of-these-8-careers-instead" target="_blank"> scrambling to locate a new job</a> that utilizes the same skills and pays around the same amount.</section><section class="article-body" itemprop="articleBody">A few years ago with the rise of digital media, I wondered what would happen to all the libraries. I imagined buildings abandoned, shelves empty, save for the occasional battered book, and everything covered in layers of dust. However, libraries aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. And librarians and library assistants are still relatively stable career prospects. Here’s why.</section><section class="article-body" itemprop="articleBody"><h3 class="ad_brightcove_video-wrapper hide-ad" data-google-query-id="CNm3rrWLgM8CFZYKNwodQ-cITQ" id="google_ads_iframe_/8484/tim/money/careers_6__container__" style="border-image: none; border: 0pt;" ws-zone="293428.00">
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S. figures), <a href="http://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/library-technicians-and-assistants.htm" target="_blank">library technicians and assistants</a> earned a median wage of $13.43 an hour in 2015. And even the library assistants who were paid the lowest in the industry averaged around $9.34 an hour. If you pursue a library assistant job, chances are you will be paid above the federal minimum wage. When you throw in the fact that the job doesn’t require you to invest in an expensive college degree, it’s a pretty solid employment opportunity.</div>
</section><section class="article-body" itemprop="articleBody">The only downside is that a lot of the job opportunities are currently part-time, but that applies to a lot of jobs that don’t require a college degree. This job can be a steppingstone to a far more lucrative librarian job. <a href="http://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/librarians.htm#tab-1" target="_blank">Librarians</a> earned an average of $27.35 an hour in 2015. That’s an annual salary of around $56,880. Even the lowest paid jobs within the industry paid an annual salary of around $33,810. The only downside is that to become a librarian, individuals will need to earn an undergraduate degree and a masters in library science.</section><section class="article-body" itemprop="articleBody"><em><strong><br /></strong></em></section><section class="article-body" itemprop="articleBody"><h3>
2. Upward Job Prospect Trend</h3>
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</section><section class="article-body" itemprop="articleBody">Sure, electronic media has hurt the librarian profession, but it’s not severely wounded. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, job opportunities for librarians and library technicians and assistants will continue to increase.</section><section class="article-body" itemprop="articleBody">The job outlook from 2014 to 2016 for librarians is expected to increase by 2%. And library technician and assistant positions will increase by 5%. The fact that the industry continues to experience growth, even if it’s slow growth, is a good sign.</section><section class="article-body" itemprop="articleBody"><em><strong><br /></strong></em></section><section class="article-body" itemprop="articleBody"><h3>
3. Libraries Are Proactively Changing</h3>
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Public libraries have been making major changes to remain relevant in an increasingly digital world. Here are some of those changes: </div>
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<li>Offering movie rentals</li>
<li>Renting board and video games</li>
<li>Renting meeting rooms to businesses</li>
<li>Offering power tool rentals</li>
<li>Renting musical instruments</li>
<li>Offering free Wi-Fi</li>
<li>Providing access to 3D printers</li>
<li>Giving out free seeds to plant</li>
<li>Providing computer and tech classes<em><br /></em></li>
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4. Broad Range of Librarian Jobs</h3>
</section><section class="article-body" itemprop="articleBody"><br /></section><section class="article-body" itemprop="articleBody">The employment opportunities for librarians are far more expansive than gigs at small public libraries and schools.</section><section class="article-body" itemprop="articleBody">Larger libraries often allow individuals to really specialize in a specific skill set.</section><section class="article-body" itemprop="articleBody"><br /></section><section class="article-body" itemprop="articleBody"><ul>
<li><strong>User service librarians</strong> aid individuals in navigating the library and finding material to conduct research.</li>
<li><strong>Technical service librarians</strong> obtain, prepare, and organize library materials.</li>
<li><strong>Administrative services librarians</strong> are focused on the more business-oriented aspects of the library (staffing, budgets, library material contracts, and fundraising).</li>
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<li><strong>Corporate librarians</strong> are hired by private businesses (insurance companies, consulting firms, and publishing companies) to assist employees as they conduct research.</li>
<li><strong>Government librarians</strong> assist government staff.</li>
<li><strong>Law librarians</strong> work in law school libraries and law firms. They organize legal resources and aid lawyers, law students, judges and law clerks with their research.</li>
<li><strong>Medical librarians</strong> help health professionals, patients, and researchers find health-related information. They teach medical students how to find information and answer consumer health questions.</li>
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Libraries and librarians have continually fought to remain relevant as technology has rapidly changed. Due to the hard work of librarians, library organizations, and many others, library based careers are still a lucrative career choice.</div>
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As Toronto prepares to become a Hollywood playground this September thanks to TIFF, CanLit fans can also embrace that three new television adaptations will be going into production in and around the city this fall.<br />
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Here is the latest on three productions with air dates (TBA) in 2017:<br />
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<strong>The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood </strong><br />
<strong>Production:</strong> Shot in Toronto. Written by Bruce Miller (<em>The 100</em>), who co-executive produces with Daniel Wilson (from the 1990 film adaptation of <em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em>), with Atwood acting as consulting producer. Reed Morano (<em>Vinyl</em>) to direct first three episodes<br />
<strong>Stars:</strong> Joseph Fiennes (<em>Shakespeare in Love</em>), Elisabeth Moss (<em>Mad Men</em>), Yvonne Strahovski (<em>Dexter</em>), Samira Wiley (<em>Orange Is The New Black</em>)<br />
<strong>When/where to watch:</strong> 10 episodes on Hulu<br />
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<strong>Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood</strong><br />
<strong>Production:</strong> Shot in Toronto. Written and executive produced by Sarah Polley (<em>Away From Her</em>); directed by Mary Harron (<em>American Psycho</em>)<br />
<strong>Stars:</strong> Sarah Gadon (<em>Cosmopolis)</em>, Zachary Levi (<em>Chuck</em>), Anna Paquin (<em>True Blood</em>)<br />
<strong>When/where to watch:</strong> Six episodes on CBC TV and Netflix (international)<br />
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<strong>Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery</strong><br />
<strong>Production:</strong> Shot in Ontario. Co-executive produced and written by Moira Walley-Beckett (<em>Breaking Bad</em>) with the two-hour premiere directed by Niki Caro (<em>Whale Rider</em>)<br />
<strong>Stars: </strong>TBA<br />
<strong>When/where to watch:</strong> Eight episodes on CBC TV and Netflix (international)<br />
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He also explains the inspiration behind Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess character.<br />
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<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">This past March, <em>Downton Abbey</em> ended its television run with</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0"><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/03/downton-abbey-finale">the <em>Love Actually</em> of series finales</a>—<br />
a joyously light-hearted affair for most characters involved, </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">especially the long-tortured <strong>Lady Edith</strong>,<br />
who closed out the show by <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/03/downton-abbey-finale-edith"><em>finally</em> locking down a man</a>,</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">a better title than her sister, and a cushy career. (Respect.) </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">Since the finale aired, there have been rumors that the ensemble</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">cast might re-unite for a <br />
<a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/08/downton-abbey-movie-michelle-dockery">big-screen spin-off</a>. (God knows at least <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/08/downton-abbey-jim-carter-job">one butler</a> </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">would welcome the work.) But in the event that a <br />
spin-off film never happens, series creator </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0"><strong>Julian Fellowes</strong> has kindly looked into his <em>Downton Abbey</em><br />
crystal ball and offered fans a glimpse into several characters’ futures.<br />
Charitably, Fellowes shares the fate of Lady Mary, the snooty</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">protagonist who closed out the series with<br />
a shock twist: she has a heart. The character </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">demonstrated as much by re-uniting Lady Edith with Bertie,<br />
and then actually refraining from plundering their </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">wedding day with news that she is expecting a second<br />
child. Well, in an interview with <a href="http://deadline.com/2016/08/downton-abbey-julian-fellowes-emmys-interview-season-6-1201803736/">Deadline</a>, Fellowes </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">forecasts that Mary’s business acumen will help<br />
keep the Crawley estate afloat, now that she’s taken </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">over the business reins from her bumbling father.<br />
“My own belief is that Mary, whether you like her</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">or dislike her, is a hard worker, and she’s practical,<br />
Fellowes explains. “I think she will employ the kind </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">of advice that she needs [to manage the estate]. <br />
She would probably have opened the house to </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">the public in the 1960s, as so many of them did, and <br />
she’d have retreated to a wing, and maybe only </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">occupied the whole house during the winters.” <br />
(Coincidentally, this is the same strategy <strong>Nicholas </strong></span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0"><strong>Ashley-Cooper</strong>, the son of the Earl of Shaftesbury,<br />
used to save his family’s estate—a story </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0"><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/07/the-east-village-dj-who-became-the-savior-of-a-decaying-british-estate">chronicled in a recent issue</a> of <em>Vanity Fair.</em>)<br />
As for the rest of the family and staff—</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">Fellowes does not think they strayed far, and that future<br />
generations would still be inhabiting the same Yorkshire pile.<br />
“My own belief is the Crawleys would still be there</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">[in Downton Abbey], just as the Carnarvons are<br />
today [in the real Highclere Castle, where Downton was filmed],” </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">says Fellowes. “George [Mary’s son]<br />
would have gone to the Second World War,</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">and of course the fear is that he would be killed. We know<br />
that Mary is pregnant, so there’s going to be another child. </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">As for the title, I don’t know where it would<br />
go beyond George, but let’s hope he gets through the war</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">and has children of his own.”<br />
(If we worked at a television network, we would greenlight</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">an entire spin-off based on the previous<br />
paragraph and the lingering question of how George will fare as</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">an adult, given his upbringing with<br />
<em>Downton</em>’s Mommie Dearest.)<br />
Although Fellowes does not offer the fates of the other characters,</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">he does offer up another great trivia<br />
note by revealing the inspiration behind <strong>Maggie Smith</strong>’s </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">Dowager Countess. <br />
“One thing I very much enjoyed about Violet was that I had,</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">in creating her, touched on an iconic figure<br />
of British families,” explains Fellowes. “There was a whole </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">generation of women like Violet. My theory<br />
is that, when the men went off to war, the women had to keep </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">the show on the road back home, and they<br />
did. As a result, during the 50s, 60s and 70s, there were these</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">incredibly frightening matriarchs in all<br />
sorts of family situations, that everyone was half terrified of and</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">half loved.”<br />
“I modeled her on my grandfather’s older sister,” Fellowes continues.</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">“And the thing about those<br />
women is that they were as tough on themselves </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">as they were on everyone else, which is why you<br />
forgave them. They weren’t selfish in that way; they just had these</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">incredibly high standards that <br />
everyone had to meet.” <br />
<br />
Fellowes has previously said that he is keeping his fingers</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">crossed for a film spin-off, so that<br />
audiences can re-unite with their beloved characters. <br />
“I hope there will be a film,” Fellowes told <a href="http://www.indiewire.com/2016/05/with-downton-abbey-over-creator-julian-fellowes-wants-a-movie-and-a-cup-of-tea-290408/">IndieWire</a> several </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">months back. “I’d structure a narrative <br />
with lots of things happening, but we would need a kind of</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">unity to make a feature, which is a challenge<br />
for me. It would be a bigger canvas riot could be a real riot,</span><br />
<span data-reactid=".1iy87bibif4.2.2:1.1.0.0.2.$0">the ball a real ball. I would like that, I <br />
think it would be fun. But there’s a time and then everyone’s moved on."<br />
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The Illegal book club has given people an avenue to discuss and understand the refugee experience, says Coun. Matthew Green. About 22 people attended his first discussion in Ward 3. </div>
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On the surface, it sounds unorthodox — a politician running a book club?<br />
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<span class="pullquote-quotation">'It brings the community together to have difficult conversations about displaced people, migrants, race, religion and gender. That's all incumbent on civic leaders.'</span><cite class="pullquote-source">- Matthew Green, city councillor</cite></blockquote>
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But in Hamilton's Ward 3, that's exactly what's happening. And everyone is reading <em>The Illegal</em> by Hamilton's Lawrence Hill.<br />
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Matthew Green, city councillor, says the book resonates in his ward, with its large population of new Canadians, including some of the <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/1.3573475">nearly 1,000 government-assisted Syrian refugees</a> who have arrived in Hamilton since late last year. So he's holding four book club events in an effort to build empathy and a sense of community.<br />
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It's not necessarily the job of a politician. Typically, they deal with weightier matters — tax increases, infrastructure, $1 billion transit decisions.<br />
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But <em>The Illegal </em>is a way to discuss and understand the refugee experience through a work of fiction, Green said. And that's useful too.<br />
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"It's really not the job of an elected official, but it certainly fits with the background I come from," he said of the book club.<br />
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"And it brings the community together to have difficult conversations about displaced people, migrants, race, religion and gender. That's all incumbent on civic leaders."<br />
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Local author Lawrence Hill wrote The Illegal, which Hamiltonians are reading part of a larger Hamilton Public Library initiative called Hamilton Reads. (CBC)</div>
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Green's book club is part of a larger Hamilton Public Library effort called <a href="http://www.hpl.ca/news/hamilton-reads-illegal" target="_blank">Hamilton Reads 2016</a>.<br />
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The library is holding discussions about <em>The Illegal </em>around the city, said Laura Lukasik, manager of communications and partnerships. And Hill is participating. Green is the only politician to start his own discussion group.<br />
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<span class="pullquote-quotation">'Certainly the diversity of our city is reflected in this book.'</span><cite class="pullquote-source">- Laura Lukasik, Hamilton Public Library</cite></blockquote>
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<em>The Illegal</em> is timely with the arrival of the new Syrian-Canadians, Lukasik said.<br />
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"There are a lot of good touch points," Lukasik said, "and certainly the diversity of our city is reflected in this book."<br />
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In <em>The Illegal</em>, Keita Ali is a marathon runner from the fictional country of Zantoroland, a country where boatloads of refugees flee to the large, affluent Freedom State, a country with a history built in part by Zantoroland slaves.<br />
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The Illegal won CBC's Canada Reads competition this year.</div>
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That sort of story speaks to the people in Green's racially and economically diverse lower-city ward. And discussing them through a book takes the heat off.<br />
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"It's a safe space because it's hypothetical," Green said. "It uses fictional countries to work through the complexities."<br />
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"There were so many different people excited about the author and the book. I think they understood what was at stake for our city, and its applicability."</div>
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About 22 people attended the first meeting. There are three more, with the next being Aug. 14.<br />
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Green says he may keep it going with a different book after <em>The Illegal </em>discussion is over.<br />
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Meanwhile, Hill will make an appearance at two Meet the Author library events in October — one at the central branch and one at Turner Park.<br />
<a href="http://www.hpl.ca/news/hamilton-reads-illegal" target="_blank">See future <em>The Illegal</em> discussions and events through Hamilton Public Library</a>.<br />
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Future Ward 3 meetings (open to everybody):<br />
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<li>Aug. 14 — Chapters 11-20. Location to be determined. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/theillegalmatthewgreen/" target="_blank">Check the Facebook page</a>.</li>
<li>Sept. 11 — Chapters 21-30. (This is the 15-year anniversary of Sept. 11 and will include a talk from No One Is Illegal — Toronto.</li>
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PRAGUE — In the age of Amazon and the internet, the idea of going to a public library to borrow a book may seem ever more quaint and old-fashioned in many parts of the world, but one country, at least, is clinging to it tenaciously: the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/world/europe/czech-republic-seeking-a-snappier-nameconsiders-a-change.html">Czech Republic</a>.</div>
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There are libraries everywhere you look in the country — it has the densest library network in the world, <a href="https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/22718/Final%20Report%20-%20Cross-European%20Library%20Impact.pdf?sequence=1">according to a survey</a> conducted for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. There are more libraries than grammar schools. In fact, there is one library for every 1,971 Czech citizens, the survey found — four times as many, relative to population, as the average European country, and 10 times as many as the United States, which has one for every 19,583 people.</div>
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Why so many Czech libraries? Well, for decades they were mandatory — every community, from a big city down to a tiny village, was required by law to have one.</div>
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The law was enacted in 1919, soon after Czechoslovakia emerged as an independent country. The idea was to promote universal literacy and education after the country was free of the German-speaking Austro-Hungarian Empire. And it worked.</div>
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The library law survived the German occupation, the communist era and even the breakup with Slovakia in the early 1990s. What it couldn’t survive, in the end, was budgetary pressure. To save money, the requirement was dropped in 2001, when there were about 6,019 libraries in the country; since then, about 11 percent have merged or closed.</div>
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Rather than just linger on as an eccentricity from a bygone age, though, the surviving Czech libraries are doing what they can to stay vibrant and relevant. They serve as polling places for elections and as local meeting venues. They organize reading clubs and art exhibits and offer computer literacy courses, and they welcome droves of schoolchildren and retirees during the day.</div>
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But mostly, they do what 92 percent of Czechs still want them to go on doing, according to the Gates Foundation survey: They lend books</div>
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"Top Gun" rates a lowly 55 per cent positive critical rating on the movie aggregation site RottenTomatoes.com. Yet, 30 years later, 1986's top-grossing film is still soaring in the hearts of movie viewers. And it's not alone. Four other films from 1986 — "Aliens," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Pretty in Pink' and 'Stand By Me" — remain fan favourites. </div>
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None of these films dominated at the Oscars, with Sigourney Weaver of Aliens earning the only acting nomination of the group. Critical-reception ran the gamut, but each film has a special place in the pop culture vernacular. In fact, 30 years later, they're flourishing. </div>
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"I marvel that these 30-year-old films have never gone away," says film historian Leonard Maltin. "They all touched hearts when they were new, even if they didn't get awards or, with some, great reviews. But they have never gone away. I've taken note of the movies being revived this summer, and it's interesting that these films have traction." </div>
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• Brownsville, Ore., the setting for Rob Reiner's coming-of-age drama Stand By Me, will celebrate the film's 30th anniversary July 23 with activities including a pie-eating contest like the one memorably depicted on screen. </div>
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• Chicago celebrated Ferris Fest in May with a restaging of the Twist & Shout parade sequence from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The John Hughes-directed film also saw a theatrical re-release in May and a digital HD release. </div>
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Keith Simanton, senior film editor for the movie website IMDb.com, says that many of the people whose hearts were touched at a young age are now passing this movie love onto their children — or in the case of filmmakers, onto a whole new audience. </div>
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"I refer to these movies as heirloom movies, movies people saw as teenagers then and now want to show their kids," says Simanton. "Films like" Children of A Lesser God" and "Out of Africa," darn good movies which won Oscars, were not seen by a certain impressionable age group. So they are not along on this emotional wagon train." </div>
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Helping this train roll along are iconic, often rebellious, lead characters, ranging from Matthew Broderick's school-skipping Ferris Bueller to Weaver's groundbreaking alien warrior Ripley to Cruise's hotshot pilot Maverick. </div>
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"Top Gun is a character-based piece, a character who overcomes his demons to triumph in the end. Everyone would love to do that," says Bruckheimer. "If we had a movie about speed and great dialogue, but you didn't care about the characters, we wouldn't be talking about this movie right now." </div>
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Great dialogue certainly helps, and this crop of films has plenty of it. Ferris Bueller's carpe diem manifesto remains resonant: "Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it." Maverick's line, "I feel the need, the need for speed" captured the adrenaline-fuelled love of "Top Gun." </div>
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"These are the lines that people were repeating to each other back then, when they were hanging out at night," says Erik Davis, managing editor of the ticket website Fandango.com. "Movies were all we had back then, no YouTube or Vine. Movies were like religious experiences for people. That stays." </div>
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So does the music, which helps to further cement memories in moviegoers' minds. Top Gun's soundtrack ensured the film spoke to an MTV generation and won an Oscar for the song "Take My Breath Away." Davis says the music is a powerful force. </div>
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"Who doesn't think of the movie "Stand By Me" when they hear Ben E. King singing Stand By Me?" says Davis. "People think of Ducky dancing in a record store when they hear Otis Redding's 'Try A Little Tenderness' or Ferris Bueller's parade when they hear 'Twist & Shout.'" </div>
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<span class="byline" itemid="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/winnie_hu/index.html" itemprop="author creator" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">By <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/winnie_hu/index.html" title="More Articles by WINNIE HU"><span class="byline-author" data-byline-name="WINNIE HU" data-twitter-handle="WinnHu" itemprop="name">WINNIE HU</span></a></span><time class="dateline" content="2016-07-04 21:10" datetime="2016-07-04 21:10" itemprop="datePublished"> JULY 4, 2016</time> New York Times</div>
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Matthew Carter’s summer hideaway is not in the Hamptons, the Catskills or on the Jersey Shore. It does not require a car ride or a small fortune to keep up.</div>
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Mr. Carter, 32, an adjunct professor of music at the City College of New York, simply holes up at the Inwood Library in northern Manhattan with his research books. It is quiet, air-conditioned and open every day.</div>
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“I’m a total leech of public libraries,” he said. “It’s my summer hangout. It’s where I spend the majority of my time, and where I’m most productive.”</div>
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It is also a place where he has a lot of company.</div>
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Far from becoming irrelevant in the digital age, libraries in New York City and around the nation are thriving: adding weekend and evening hours; hiring more librarians and staff; and expanding their catalog of classes and services to include things like job counseling, coding classes and knitting groups.</div>
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No longer just repositories for books, public libraries have reinvented themselves as one-stop community centers that aim to offer something for everyone. In so doing, they are reaffirming their role as an essential part of civic life in America by making themselves indispensable to new generations of patrons.</div>
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Story time at libraries in Manhattan and the Bronx <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/nyregion/long-line-at-the-library-its-story-time-again.html?_r=0">is now so popular th</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/nyregion/long-line-at-the-library-its-story-time-again.html?_r=0">at ticket lines</a> must be formed, while coding classes have waiting lists in the thousands. A library in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, runs a fully equipped recording studio that can be reserved at no cost; many libraries in the borough lend laptops and portable wireless devices to those without internet access at home.</div>
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In Queens, which has a large South Asian population, a library in Jamaica offers sewing classes in Bengali for Bangladeshi women, some of whom now earn a living as seamstresses. Libraries in Flushing and South Jamaica teach social media skills to small-business owners. Nationally, public libraries are redefining their mission at a time when access to technology, and the ability to use it, is said to deepen class stratification, leaving many poor and disadvantaged communities behind. Sari Feldman, president of the American Library Association, said library workers had shown people how to file online for welfare benefits and taught classes in science, technology, engineering and math to children who could not afford to go to summer camps. </div>
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“All libraries are having a renaissance,” Ms. Feldman said. “We’re seeing that libraries have really stepped up to take on roles that are needed in a community.”</div>
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New York City’s 217 public libraries have rebounded in the past two years amid an infusion of city dollars, after years of budget and service cuts. An outpouring of support from library lovers has served as a reminder that the institutions are a crucial part of many lives.</div>
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A <a href="https://vimeo.com/album/3951420">recent contest to recognize</a> neighborhood libraries underscored their vitality: 18,766 online and paper nominations were submitted in one month, up from about 4,300 when the yearly competition was started in 2013. Nearly every library was nominated at least once. Some received hundreds of nods.</div>
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One young man wrote that he was homeless when he started going to the <a href="https://vimeo.com/album/3951420/video/168235265">Arverne branch of the Queens Library</a>, where the staff not only helped him study to become a security guard but also hired him to work as a mentor to teenagers. Today, that man, Richard Johnson, has two jobs and his own apartment.</div>
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“Ever since becoming a member of the Queens Library, I have been bettering my life,” he wrote in his statement.</div>
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In the past two years, more than 250,000 people, including the author Judy Blume and the musician Patti Smith, have signed on to a letter campaign in support of the libraries. Library workers have held story time on the steps of City Hall, and showed up at budget hearings in bright orange T-shirts emblazoned with the words: “Keep Investing in Libraries, Keep Investing in New Yorkers.”</div>
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The message was heard. In the 2016 fiscal year the libraries received $360 million for operating costs, $33 million more than the year before — the largest increase in recent times. For the 2017 fiscal year, which began on Friday, city financing for the libraries increased slightly to $365 million. But in a more significant victory, city leaders agreed to preserve past increases in future budgets, the difference, say, between getting a one-year bonus or a permanent raise.</div>
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City Councilman Andy King, who represents northeast Bronx and is chairman of the Libraries Subcommittee, said previous years of budget cuts had left the libraries on life support. “I’m glad we’re in a financial position to let the blood flow again,” Mr. King, a Democrat, said. “Libraries are a lifeline, which we can’t afford to ever let fall again.”</div>
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For some, Toronto's public libraries are something akin to civic sanctuaries, a place for community gatherings and learning.<br />
For five-year-old Jackson Ryan Bennett and his father, Lanrick Bennett Jr., they're places of pilgrimage as they've embarked on a mission to visit all 100 of the city's libraries.<br />
Dubbing the quest #JacksLibraryTour on Twitter, the idea first sprung up through a book they owned that included illustrations of Toronto's libraries by Daniel Rotsztain.<br />
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"I brought it home and showed it to Jack and he wanted to go to the Fort York library," the elder Bennett told CBC's <em>Metro Morning</em>. "I thought, 'nice and easy, we'll pop over there, take a look at it.' [We] had a fun time and went home and he was like, "I want to see the rest." And there were 99 more of these to see."<br />
During the interview, young Jackson disputed his father's account of the genesis of their journey.<br />
"Daddy, it wasn't like that," he said. "It was you."<br />
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The Bennetts have visited 28 libraries so far, reaching each of them via public transit.<br />
They've been to Scarborough, and they've visited the libraries along Jane Street, Queen Street, College Street and St. Clair Avenue.<br />
Jackson said he mostly likes to watch videos when he goes to the library, but at one location "there was only books."<br />
So he checked out his favourite: Transformers Rescue Bots.<br />
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They spend two hours at each branch, walking around and reading and checking out books.<br />
Lanrick's favourites so far are the Runnymede and Riverdale libraries.<br />
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But his favourite part of the project is the chance to spend time with his son.<br />
"I work Monday to Friday like many fathers," Bennett said.<br />
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Craig got his first taste of activism speaking out to save our local library. We've noticed ever since then that when provinces and cities experience a budget crunch, libraries are often first on the chopping block. Yet invariably, citizen rise up to protect them from extinction. <br />
Newfoundland's plan to <a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/newfoundland-and-labrador-closing-more-than-half-its-public-libraries-1.2880414" target="_hplink">shutter more than half its public libraries</a> sparked a recent protest by thousands at the provincial legislature. Comedian and commentator Rick Mercer lambasted the government with <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/craig-and-marc-kielburger/v" target="_hplink">one of his trademark rants</a>. <br />
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When the town council of McNab-Braeside, a rural community near Ottawa, decided to cancel an arrangement that gave residents free access to the library in the neighbouring town of Arnprior, almost a third of the entire township <a href="http://www.insideottawavalley.com/news-story/4244274-unswayed-mcnab-braeside-council-sticks-to-guns-despite-receiving-2-000-name-petition/" target="_hplink">signed a petition in protest</a>. Then they voted out all five councillors in the next election.<br />
In the age of e-readers, search engines and Wikipedia, why do Canadians still cling so tenaciously to these seemingly archaic institutions? Because libraries are so much more than just repositories for books. <br />
Canada's libraries are vital community hubs with an ever-growing range of beneficial programs and services. Perhaps more relevant today than ever before, they are community institutions worth fighting for.<br />
In McNab-Braeside, resident Brian Armisen tells us he couldn't imagine his community without the variety of services the Arnprior library offers. Armisen helped launch the campaign to save the library, and now serves as deputy mayor. Beyond free Wi-Fi and access to computers, there is a daytime storytelling program for preschoolers that not only promotes early childhood literacy, but provides a coveted social opportunity for stay-at-home moms and dads. A partnership with the town museum introduces school groups to local history.<br />
There's a wealth of services and programs at Canadian libraries, like first aid and child health classes, <a href="http://www.lethlib.ca/promotion/financial-literacy-month-money-matters" target="_hplink">financial literacy</a>, and support for new Canadians such as English language programs, says Sandra Singh, chief librarian of the Vancouver Public Library and president of the Canadian Libraries Association.<br />
With electronic media replacing books as the primary way information is shared in our society, libraries are at the <a href="http://www.metronews.ca/news/canada/2015/12/09/how-canadian-libraries-and-their-patrons-are-evolving.html" target="_hplink">forefront of digital technology</a>. Whether you're a high school student keen on software coding or a senior who just wants to learn to use email to talk to your grandkids, your local library likely has a course to help you. <br />
The newly upgraded Halifax Central Library <a href="http://globalnews.ca/news/1666779/new-halifax-central-library-slated-to-open-on-dec-13/" target="_hplink">boasts music recording studios</a> with free access to digital sound editing equipment. Last summer, the Vancouver Central Library opened its "<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/05/06/vancouver-public-library-inspiration-lab_n_7225696.html" target="_hplink">Inspiration Lab</a>" featuring computers with the latest in video, audio and publishing software and gadgets. Visitors to the Toronto Reference Library can use 3D printers.<br />
As urban communities sprawl and public spaces dwindle, Singh argues that libraries fill an increasingly needed role as community hubs. Many now feature cafes and auditoriums. The Arnprior institution has bookshelves that roll aside to make room for concerts and speaking events throughout the year. <br />
"Libraries are about the only free public spaces left in our society where you're not a consumer, pressured to buy something," says Singh.<br />
Perhaps most importantly, libraries provide their programs and services to those who are often marginalized or can't afford to go elsewhere for enrichment. And it's not just knowledge that libraries give to those in need. A pioneer of the sharing economy, the library lending model is expanding to create greater community access to other useful things through innovative initiatives like <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/samaritanmagcom/library-toys_b_3646891.html" target="_hplink">toy</a> and<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/handy-edmontonians-plan-to-open-city-s-first-tool-library-1.3412727" target="_hplink"> tool libraries</a>. We agree with Singh that libraries really are a tremendous equalizing force.<br />
When was the last time you or your kids visited a local library to see what it has to offer? You might be surprised to discover that, far from being a community dinosaur, it's the coolest place in town.<br />
<em>Brothers Craig and Marc Kielburger founded a platform for social change that includes the international charity, Free The Children, the social enterprise, Me to We, and the youth empowerment movement, We Day. Visit we.org for more information.</em></div>
Librarygirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15455352027109898676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890356829008221813.post-62664086113170797032016-06-02T07:00:00.001-07:002016-06-02T07:00:57.004-07:00Kids Help Make Prosthetic Hand at Downtown San Diego Library<div class="paragraph" data-pnum="1">
<strong>How 'synergy' at the San Diego brought two bright kids, a man who needed a hand and supportive library staff together to create something great!</strong></div>
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You can still check out books and access the internet inside the downtown library, but as a lucky patron recently found out, you can also get a prosthetic hand.</div>
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Nick Sissakis, 39, took his kids to the library a few months back and stumbled upon the “innovation lab”, a creative and collaborative third floor space where tech-savvy librarians work with community members to make stuff.</div>
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Sissakis, born without his right hand, presented the innovators with an interesting challenge. Could they use their 3-D printers to make a prosthetic hand? The answer over the last few months turned into a resounding yes, but not without the critical involvement of two regulars from Escondido.</div>
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Calexis and Calramon Mabalot are brothers and business partners. They’re also 12 and nine-years old respectively. Last year they watched the movie “Big Hero 6” and became inspired to build their own 3-D printer.</div>
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It took them four days.</div>
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Now, they have clients all over the world and the largest 3D printing hub in Escondido, but Sissakis is their 1st prosthetic customer and 1st customer from the library’s innovation lab.</div>
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“We wanted to know more about it” said Calexis, “because we really started our business to learn”.</div>
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Using 3D scanners, the brothers and lab staff fitted Sissakis's arm and over the next few months inched closer to a working prototype.</div>
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Last week the team experienced a huge breakthrough when he tried on the hand and grabbed a bottle of water.</div>
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“Last week was the absolute 1st time I’ve ever picked something up and the rush of emotions through me was amazing” said Sissakis.</div>
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Eight-year old Calramon described the experience with a different word.</div>
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“It made me feel great because we were using the habit of synergizing."</div>
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The synergy between the library staff, Sissakis and the Mabalot brothers resulted in a working prosthetic hand, made pennies on the dollar compared to the real world price, which is why Sissakis hasn't had one until now.</div>
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"The prosthetic that I was looking at purchasing in the past was $60,000. Insurance companies refuse to pay that, you'd have to crowd-source to get it," Sissakis said.</div>
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Now the brothers want to make it better, allowing him to use his cell phone or an iPad.</div>
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“Every couple hours, I'm finding a new way to use it" said Sissakis.</div>
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Today, he can do more than just carry grocery bags and pick up tools, he can actually hold his daughter's hand, with both of his.</div>
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It’s amazing what you can find inside a library these days.</div>
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Published at 4:15 PM PDT on May 24, 2016</div>
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Top Recommended Reads for Kids (CNW Group/TD Summer Reading Club) All-Canadian list is part of the annual TD Summer Reading Club.</div>
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No one knows great reads like your local library staff. And with summer just around the corner, librarians across the country have picked their 2016 Top Recommended Reads to get kids started on their summer reading adventures. The all-Canadian list of 10 English and 10 French titles features both well-known and emerging authors and illustrators and is the highlight of the larger Recommended Reads list. These recommended titles are a key component of the TD Summer Reading Club, <span class="xn-location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="geo" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/address"><span itemprop="addressLocality">Canada's</span></span></span> biggest, bilingual summer reading program for kids of all ages, all interests and all abilities.</div>
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The top 10 English titles are:</div>
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<li><i>Friend or Foe: the Whole Truth About Animals That People Love to </i>Hate by <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Etta Kaner</span></span> and David Anderson (Ages 8-10) </li>
<li><i>Garbage Delight</i> by <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Dennis Lee</span></span> and <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Sandy Nichols</span></span> (Ages 1-5) </li>
<li><i>The Nest</i> by <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Kenneth Oppel</span></span> and <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Jon Klassen</span></span> (Ages 8-12) </li>
<li><i>The Night Gardener</i> by <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Terry Fan</span></span> and <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Eric Fan</span></span> (Ages 6-10) </li>
<li><i>Sidewalk Flowers</i> by JonArno Lawson and <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Sydney Smith</span></span> (Ages 4-7) </li>
<li><i>The Skeleton Tree</i> by <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Iain Lawrence</span></span> (Ages 9-12) </li>
<li><i>Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox</i> by <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Danielle Daniel</span></span> (Age 5-8) </li>
<li><i>This is Sadie</i> by <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Sara O'Leary</span></span> and <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Julie Morstad</span></span> (Ages 3-7) </li>
<li><i>Sweetest Kulu</i> by <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Celina Kalluk</span></span> and <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Alexandria Neonakis</span></span> (Ages 0-6) </li>
<li><i>Tokyo Digs a Garden</i> by <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Jon-Erik Lappano</span></span> and <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Kellen Hatanaka</span></span> (Ages 5-9)</li>
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The top 10 French titles are:</div>
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<li><i>Bêtes </i>de Guy Marchamps et Bellebrute (4-8 ans) </li>
<li><i>La grotte de la déesse</i> de <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Nancy Montour</span></span> et <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Jared Karnas</span></span> (6-9 ans) </li>
<li><i>Papillons</i> de l'ombre d'Agnès Grimaud et <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Camille Lavoie</span></span> (10-12 ans) </li>
<li><i>Quelle salade!</i> de <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Virginie Egger</span></span> (6-8 ans) </li>
<li><i>Les vacances</i> de Rhéa <span class="xn-location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="geo" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/address"><span itemprop="addressLocality">Dufresne</span></span></span> et Orbie (3-6 ans) </li>
<li><i><span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Billy Stuart</span></span>, tome 4: Dans l'oeil du cyclope</i> d'Alain M. Bergeron et Sampar (9-12 ans) </li>
<li><i>L'arbragan</i> de <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Jacques Goldstyn</span></span> (6-9 ans) </li>
<li><i>Pikiq</i> de Yayo (5-8 ans) </li>
<li><i>Le renard apprivoisé</i> d'Alaine Stanké et <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Jocelyne Bouchard</span></span> (9-10 ans) </li>
<li><i><span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Le Pou</span></span></i> d'Élise Gravel (4-6 ans)</li>
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All titles are featured on the <a href="http://www.tdsummerreadingclub.ca/parents/top_reads" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TD Summer Reading Club website</a>.</div>
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"These great Canadian titles were carefully chosen to encourage kids of all ages to escape their everyday, step outside their ordinary and seek the unknown and untamed through reading," said <span class="xn-person" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Lisa Heggum</span></span>, Child and Youth Advocate at Toronto Public Library. "Whether it's outdoors, outrageous or out of bounds, the unexplored is calling, and with TD Summer Reading Club books, activities, and an unleashed imagination, kids can let go and find their wild this summer. There's simply no better way to get kids excited about summer reading."</div>
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Studies show that kids who keep reading throughout the summer do better when they return to school in the fall. The free program is co-created and delivered by over 2,000 public libraries across <span class="xn-location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"><span itemprop="geo" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/address"><span itemprop="addressLocality">Canada</span></span></span>. Developed by Toronto Public Library, in partnership with Library and Archives Canada and generously sponsored by TD Bank Group, the Club celebrates Canadian authors, illustrators and stories and is designed to inspire kids to explore the fun of reading their way – the key to building a lifelong love of reading.</div>
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SOURCE TD Summer Reading Club</div>
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Actor and director Sarah Polley will begin shooting her long-planned adaption of Margaret Atwood’s 1996 novel, <em>Alias Grace</em>, in Toronto this August.<br />
Polley originally announced the project as a big-screen motion picture in 2012, but in 2014 plans were revised to produced a six-hour television miniseries. Shooting will begin at Revival Studios on Aug. 15 and continue for three months. Casting details have not been announced.<br />
This will not be Polley’s first CanLit adaptation – she received an Oscar nomination for her adapted screenplay of Alice Munro’s <em>The Bear Came Over the Mountain</em>, released in theatres in 2006 as <em>Away From Her</em>.<br />
Atwood’s historical-fiction novel is based on the real-life 1843 Upper Canada murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery. The book won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Atwood wrote an earlier version of the story for CBC Television in 1974.</div>
</section></article>Librarygirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15455352027109898676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890356829008221813.post-22392789669401086092016-05-10T09:22:00.000-07:002016-05-10T09:22:01.184-07:00What's Next for the Cast of Downton Abbey?Via PBS, May 9, 2016<br />
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While we may never again see the Dowager launch a new zinger or Lady Mary raise a fresh eyebrow, we can look forward to seeing <em>Downton</em>'s talented and hardworking cast for many years to come! Find out what's next for <em>Downton Abbey</em>'s cast members, where you can see them, and how far their new roles are speculated to take them from their <em>Downton Abbey</em> characters!<br />
<span class="plugin_picture align-left"><img alt="Michelle Dockery" src="http://d2buyft38glmwk.cloudfront.net/media/cms_page_media/2016/3/24/downton-abbey-s6-cast-next-roles-02.jpg" height="153" title="Michelle Dockery" width="400" /></span><br />
<strong>Michelle Dockery</strong> <br />
If Lady Mary's Liverpool assignation were a regular and casual event, conducted between cons, thefts, and prison stints, she might be closer to Michelle Dockery's next character, Letty Dobesh, the protagonist of the upcoming TNT series <em>Good Behavior</em>. Letty is contemporary, she's American, and she's a train wreck…How un-Mary, how vulgar! <br />
<strong> Departure from Downton: 100%</strong><br />
<strong><span class="plugin_picture align-left"><img alt="Joanne Froggatt " src="http://d2buyft38glmwk.cloudfront.net/media/cms_page_media/2016/3/24/downton-abbey-s6-cast-next-roles-01.jpg" height="153" title="Joanne Froggatt " width="400" /></span></strong><br />
<strong>Joanne Froggatt</strong> <br />
She stole the hearts of millions of viewers as Lady Mary's loving and resilient lady's maid, Anna. Next up, she stars as infamous Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton, dispensing death from the spout of her teapot in the spine-tingling drama <em>Dark Angel</em>, coming to MASTERPIECE. From Downton's angel to angel of death, Froggatt does a 180 and shows us the breadth of her chops! <br />
<strong> Departure from Downton: 100%</strong><br />
<strong><span class="plugin_picture align-left"><img alt="Hugh Bonneville" src="http://d2buyft38glmwk.cloudfront.net/media/cms_page_media/2016/3/24/downton-abbey-s6-cast-next-roles-03.jpg" height="153" title="Hugh Bonneville" width="400" /></span></strong><br />
<strong>Hugh Bonneville</strong> <br />
Hugh Bonneville may have left Downton behind, but he's not straying far from the aristocracy in his portrayal of Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy in India, in the upcoming feature film <em>Viceroy's House</em>. While the film is set in India in 1947, and Bonneville's character is an historical figure, it does involve both a house and a turbulent historical backdrop. <br />
<strong> Departure from Downton: 50%</strong><br />
<strong><span class="plugin_picture align-left"><img alt="Maggie Smith" src="http://d2buyft38glmwk.cloudfront.net/media/cms_page_media/2016/3/24/downton-abbey-s6-cast-next-roles-12.jpg" height="153" title="Maggie Smith" width="400" /></span></strong><br />
<strong>Maggie Smith</strong> <br />
Maggie Smith follows up her iconic role as <em>Downton Abbey</em>'s Dowager Countess in the biographical feature film, <em>The Lady in the Van</em>. She plays Mary Shepherd, a homeless woman who, for 15 years, parks her van in the driveway of real-life playwright Alan Bennett, returning to the character she portrayed on the London stage. While Violet and Mary couldn't be more opposite in both their residences or refinements, the characters share one quality: both are forces of nature! <br />
<strong> Departure from Downton: 95%</strong><br />
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<strong>Laura Carmichael</strong> <br />
Fans can look for Laura Carmichael in the feature film <em>A United Kingdom</em>, which is due to start shooting soon. Set in the 1940s, <em>A United Kingdom</em> is based on the true story of the future king (David Oyelowo) of Bechuanaland—formerly the British colony Botswana—and his marriage to a white British woman, Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike). Carmichael will play her sister, Muriel. The sibling of a marrying sister? There's an Edith connection after all! <br />
<strong> Departure from Downton: 70%</strong><br />
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<strong>Allen Leech</strong> <br />
After feature film success in <em>The Imitation Game</em>, Leech is slated to head back to the big screen in <em>Hunter's Prayer</em>, an action-thriller based on a novel by Kevin Wignall, "For the Dogs." Leech goes from socialist to scoundrel as the boss of a hit man gone rogue. <br />
<strong> Departure from Downton: 100%</strong><br />
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<strong>Penelope Wilton</strong> <br />
Wilton makes the leap from the small screen to the big screen in Steven Spielberg's upcoming children's movie <em>The BFG</em>, based on the book by Roald Dahl and starring MASTERPIECE alum Mark Rylance (<span class="plugin_link"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/wolf-hall/" target="_blank">Wolf Hall</a></span>). She'll play the Queen of England, which is certainly a change from the wonderfully class-blind Isobel Crawley! <br />
<strong> Departure from Downton: 100%</strong><br />
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<strong>Kevin Doyle</strong> <br />
From Downton Abbey's gentle philosopher-footman to present-day policeman, Kevin Doyle makes a 180 in portraying bad cop DS John Wadsworth in season two of Happy Valley (alongside <em><span class="plugin_link"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/paradise/" target="_blank">The Paradise</a></span></em>'s Sarah Lancashire), on Netflix. <br />
<strong> Departure from Downton: 100%</strong><br />
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<strong>Elizabeth McGovern</strong> <br />
Next up for the actress behind Lady Cora takes Elizabeth McGovern back across the pond to 1977 America in <em>Showing Roots</em>, a feature film about opening a small-town beauty shop for black and white clients after the broadcast of the miniseries <em>Roots</em>. <br />
<strong> Departure from Downton: 100%</strong><br />
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<strong>Lily James</strong> <br />
Next up for Lily James, Downton's Lady Rose, is a WWII spy thriller, <em>The Kaiser's Last Kiss</em>, in which she plays the Jewish, Dutch love interest of a German soldier. After <em>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies</em> (Departure from Downton: 60%) and <em>Cinderella</em> (Departure from Downton: 70%), in Rose-like fashion, James once again plays forbidden love. But this time the stakes are much, much higher. <br />
<strong> Departure from Downton: 90%</strong><br />
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<strong>Samantha Bond</strong> <br />
Downton's feisty Lady Rosamund, Samantha Bond, is slated to return as Frances Burden, the heart and soul of the Women's Institute, in <em><span class="plugin_link"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/home-fires-s1/" target="_blank">Home Fires</a></span></em> Season 2 on MASTERPIECE. Like Rosamund, Burden has a commanding—and sometimes divisive—presence. But she has a lot more work to do! <br />
<strong> Departure from Downton: 75%</strong><br />
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<strong>Brendan Coyle</strong> <br />
Brendan Coyle left Mr. Bates' cane and his conscience behind for his next television role—the actor behind Downton's longsuffering, loyal valet will play a vicious mob boss in the upcoming series Spotless (on the Esquire Network). A genuine baddie, instead of a falsely accused—what would Anna think?<br />
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Here is wonderful montage courtesy of Twenty Valley Tourism. Enjoy!<br />
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Have you done the Broadchurch/Gracepoint marathon yet? It was interesting to see the differences from the British to the American versions.<br />
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I have just finished watching the second series of Broadchurch. What a trial! Broadchurch will be filming its third and final series this summer. David Tennant and Olivia Colman will be coming back as the detectives. The vicar, the Latimers and the newspaper editor have been signed. Some new faces will be coming on board. Julie Hesmondhalgh (Hayley from Coronation Street) will be joining in a significant role. This series will focus on a new crime that has devastating consequences for the town. It will air in the UK in early 2017.<br />
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On the weekend, I was riveted by series 2 of The Fall. Jamie Dornan is supremely creepy as Paul Spector. Filming has been completed on final series 3. The last 5 episodes will be shown in the UK late this year and possible on Netflix a couple of months after that.<br />
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The fourth and final season of Mr. Selfridge is currently being shown on PBS. Katherine Kelly (Becky from Coronation Street) will have more airtime this series.<br />
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Have you watched 'the Paradise', the poor man's version of Mr. Selfridge. the BBC axed it in 2014 after two series because it couldn't compete with Mr. Selfridge. If you haven't had a chance, check it out.<br />
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From time to time, I will update you on your favourite Brit television shows. All series mentioned here are available from the Lincoln Public Library.<br />
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<br />Librarygirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15455352027109898676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890356829008221813.post-37188760769821023202016-04-19T12:08:00.002-07:002016-04-19T12:08:15.335-07:00National Canadian Film Day<img alt="Image result for national film day canada logo" class="rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJLG5GbgQM58MZ73k4JzxLEAcd5WZixPngm91-ZBG51sJlICBL" data-sz="f" jsaction="load:str.tbn" name="66-2kUekaLJzKM:" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJLG5GbgQM58MZ73k4JzxLEAcd5WZixPngm91-ZBG51sJlICBL" style="height: 168px; margin-left: -14px; margin-right: -22px; margin-top: 0px; width: 299px;" /><br />
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In honour of National Canadian Film Day, here is the top ten Canadian films as decided in 2015.<br />
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<tr><td>1</td><td><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanarjuat:_The_Fast_Runner" title="Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner">Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner</a></i></td><td>2001</td><td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Kunuk" title="Zacharias Kunuk">Zacharias Kunuk</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td><td><i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_Oncle_Antoine" title="Mon Oncle Antoine">Mon Oncle Antoine</a></i></td><td>1971</td><td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Jutra" title="Claude Jutra">Claude Jutra</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td><td><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sweet_Hereafter_(film)" title="The Sweet Hereafter (film)">The Sweet Hereafter</a></i></td><td>1997</td><td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_Egoyan" title="Atom Egoyan">Atom Egoyan</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>4</td><td><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9olo" title="Léolo">Léolo</a></i></td><td>1992</td><td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Lauzon" title="Jean-Claude Lauzon">Jean-Claude Lauzon</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>5</td><td><i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9sus_de_Montr%C3%A9al" title="Jésus de Montréal">Jésus de Montréal</a></i></td><td>1989</td><td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys_Arcand" title="Denys Arcand">Denys Arcand</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>6</td><td><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goin%27_Down_the_Road" title="Goin' Down the Road">Goin' Down the Road</a></i></td><td>1970</td><td><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Shebib" title="Don Shebib">Don Shebib</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>7</td><td><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Ringers_(film)" title="Dead Ringers (film)">Dead Ringers</a></i></td><td>1988</td><td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cronenberg" title="David Cronenberg">David Cronenberg</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>8</td><td><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.R.A.Z.Y." title="C.R.A.Z.Y.">C.R.A.Z.Y.</a></i></td><td>2005</td><td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marc_Vall%C3%A9e" title="Jean-Marc Vallée">Jean-Marc Vallée</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>9</td><td><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Winnipeg" title="My Winnipeg">My Winnipeg</a></i></td><td>2007</td><td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Maddin" title="Guy Maddin">Guy Maddin</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>10</td><td><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stories_We_Tell" title="Stories We Tell">Stories We Tell</a></i></td><td>2012</td><td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Polley" title="Sarah Polley">Sarah Polley</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>10</td><td><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Ordres" title="Les Ordres">Les Ordres</a></i></td><td>1974</td><td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Brault" title="Michel Brault">Michel Brault</a></td></tr>
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Librarygirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15455352027109898676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890356829008221813.post-3915593291935769042016-04-14T13:44:00.000-07:002016-04-14T13:44:55.424-07:00Deconstructing Downton Abbey<h1 class="title">
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Downton Abbey,<em> the critically-acclaimed and immensely popular series depicting the lives of British aristocrats and their servants in the early 20th century, kicked off its third season this week. </em><br />
<em>Writer Jenny Hall spoke to historian <strong>Margaret MacMillan</strong> about the allure of the show—and its hits and misses. MacMillan, author of </em>Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World<em>, is the warden of St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford and a professor of history at the University of Toronto.</em><br />
<strong>Do you watch the show?</strong><br />
I quite enjoy it, though I haven’t become as hooked as some people. Bits of it were very good, but the melodrama increases as it often does in a series, as the writers struggle to find new and exciting things to keep the series interesting for viewers. Remember the mysterious Canadian who appeared wrapped in bandages?<br />
<strong>What is your take as a historian? For many of us, TV and movies are the only way we engage with the past.</strong><br />
I think anything that gets people interested in the past is good. But if you really want to understand the past, you have to go to more than one source. A television series, no matter how well done, is not going to give you as full a picture of the past as reading memoirs, novels and historical studies. But anything that makes people aware that there were societies in the past that are different from our own, is good. It makes us think about our own society, too.<br />
<strong>Unlike many other period pieces, <em>Downton Abbey </em>depicts the life of the servants as part of the story. Is it a faithful representation?</strong><br />
It’s a fairly favourable depiction of what it would have been like to be a servant in one of those great houses. You get a sense that the servants are all well housed and clothed and fed, which wouldn’t have been true. A lot of servants in those days worked extremely hard. They had virtually no holidays; they were up at 5 in the morning. You never really quite got a sense of the long hours.<br />
There was a curious relationship between servants and the people they worked for. They lived in very intimate contact with each other in a way in which most of us would find very uncomfortable today. The servants would know pretty much everything that was going on.<br />
<strong><em>Downton Abbey</em> depicts big events—World War I, the flu epidemic—through the lives of the family and the servants. What are your thoughts about this?</strong><br />
I think it’s easier for people to understand the great movements in history if they can see them in very personal terms. You can read that 20 million died of the influenza epidemic, that’s almost too big to comprehend. Seeing what it meant to a family is different.<br />
<strong>Is there anything you think the show does particularly well?</strong><br />
One of the things that comes out in the show is how much more acquainted people were with death. Babies often died and things that we would recover from easily today because of antibiotics often killed people then.<br />
The other thing that’s interesting is that one of great strengths of the British landed classes generally was that they tended to have primogeniture—the eldest son inherited everything. On the show there’s this whole thing about Lady Mary and how she has no brothers. Even though she’s the oldest, she can’t inherit. Primogeniture kept the big estates together, whereas in Germany, Austria, Hungry and Russia, all sons inherited, so the big estates were broken up.<br />
But what was also happening, and you get a sense of this in Downton Abbey, was that those who depended on owning agricultural land for their wealth were beginning to feel the pinch. That was partly because of places like Canada. When the prairies opened up in the 1870s and 1880s, suddenly there was a lot of cheap grain coming into Britain. A lot of the big families were finding it very hard to keep up their establishments, and estates were being sold. There’s one scene where Lady Mary is going to marry this ruthless businessman and they go to see a house they’re thinking of leasing. Lady Mary knows the house—it belonged to neighbours who had to give it up. In a way, the people you see in Downton Abbey are a doomed class.<br />
<strong>One of the things that struck me is how the show depicted World War I and its relationship to the class system. You had characters of different classes fighting alongside each other.</strong><br />
There was still a class division within the British army—officers tended to be upper class or educated middle class. You did get officers and men living in very close quarters and that was often an eye opener, for the officers in particular. But Britain did still have an entrenched class system after the First World War. The war hastened the decline of the landed upper classes, though. It was expected that their sons would be officers. The death rate for young officers who were on the line was high—there were parts of the line where the life expectancy for a lieutenant was two weeks. In some families, virtually every male of military age got wiped out. There were horrendous losses in the other classes, too. But the aristocracy was a small class. They were losing their power anyway for a number of reasons, and fact that so many of them got killed hastened their decline.<br />
<strong>The other big social change we see is women’s rights. Sybil, the youngest daughter, agitates for the vote for women.</strong><br />
Women were starting to have careers before the war, but upper class women were still expected to marry and not work. The first world war changed things because women started doing things that men traditionally did. You see them in <em>Downton Abbey</em> learning to drive cars. Other women worked the land, worked in factories. I think one of the reasons women got the vote after the war was recognition of the fact that they had been playing an important part in society through the war.<br />
<strong>Are you surprised at how popular the show is? Why is it so compelling?</strong><br />
The students at my college in Oxford are fanatical watchers. They’re the last people I thought would be interested. Old people are supposed to be nostalgic, not young people!<br />
It interests us because it’s such a different way of life, living in those beautiful country houses. They tend to show sunny afternoons and people having tea on the lawn. They don’t show the cold, miserable winter nights. And until the 20th century, if you got something like appendicitis or pneumonia, you could easily die. Think of all the things that we get that would have killed you in those days.<br />
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<!-- Entry Text --> Every book in the top ten of Dymocks’ annual <a href="http://www.dymocks.com.au/" target="_hplink">top 101 Books for 2016 </a>-- as voted by Australians -- has been made into a movie. (There is only one exception, The Rosie Project, which is currently being developed into a movie.) The Dymocks list is always an interesting way to look at people's reading habits and what stories people love to read. But this list seems to point to the fact that the average Australian reader mostly chooses to read books that are also movies. <br />
Australian author Markus Zusak's The Book Thief holds the top spot for the third consecutive year. The Book Thief has sold 8 million copies and was adapted into a film starring Geoffrey Rush.<br />
Twenty per cent of the books on the Top 101 are Australian, including The Dressmaker at No 12. <br />
Penned by Rosalie Ham 15 years ago, the book surged in popularity following the success of last year's film adaptation, starring Kate Winslet and Liam Hemsworth.<br />
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Author<a href="https://www.facebook.com/AleesahDarlisonFanPage/?fref=ts" target="_hplink"> Aleesah Darlison </a>told The Huffington Post Australia the average reader is more likely to purchase a book that they can also watch as a movie.<br />
“They see it as validating that it must be a good read if it has been made into a film. Also, people like to compare to see if the movie is as good as the book, and vice versa. It’s natural to want to compare the book with the movie and see if the movie sticks to the truth of the original story," Darlison said. <br />
“Personally, I like to read the book first. There is definitely that visual impact that a movie can have, particularly with special effects. But some people have brilliant imaginations where they can bring the book to life in their own minds and a movie can take away from that because, if you see the movie first, you are visualising the movie actors in your head and not what you might visualise the characters to look like. When I read Twilight, I didn’t want to see the film because then my head will be filled with Taylor Lautner! I wanted to see in my own mind what the characters would look like." <br />
For any writer, having your book turned into a film is a ‘Holy Grail’ because the writer gets to access a whole other audience made up of people that don’t ordinarily read books. Author <a href="http://katerinacosgrove.com/#/" target="_hplink">Katerina Cosgrove</a> told HuffPost Australia most people who buy books that are ‘film-tie ins’ have seen the movie and want to read the book to get more details about the story.<br />
“The readers who only buy a book after seeing the movie are not readers in the traditional sense. Those people probably don’t read voraciously. The people who make books that are film tie-ins best sellers are people who don’t ordinarily read fiction, they are just interested in stories, whether they are visual or written. Everyone is interested in stories but for a lot of people books are not accessible to them. Many people say, ‘I’m not a reader’ and then will only read a book if there is a movie-version," Cosgrove said.<br />
“What we need to remember is movies and books are completely different art forms, not everybody will want to indulge in both."<br />
Adult titles make up 65 per cent of the Top 101 list, with children's/young adult making up the remaining 35 percent. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is the highest children’s book on the list at no. 6 (up one place from last year).<br />
Fans of the series are eagerly awaiting the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on July 31st. Dymocks expects the book, which is a script, to break sales records not only with children but also with adult readers keen for another peek into the lives of Harry, Ron and Hermione.<br />
For the first time, the list features a cook book (Jamie Oliver’s Everyday Superfood) and a colouring book (The Enchanted Forest by Johanna Basford.) </div>
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12 books to ease your <em>Downton Abbey</em> withdrawal</h1>
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Now that <a href="http://www.ew.com/recap/downton-abbey-series-finale" target="_blank"><em>Downton Abbey</em> has come to an end</a>, fans are left without their beloved Crawleys, servants, and stories of deceit and loyalty. Have no fear, though: Here are 12 books with similar themes, characters, and twists to ease your withdrawal.<br />
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<em>Below Stairs</em> by Margaret Powell</h2>
<strong>Perfect for:</strong> Fans of Mrs. Hughes, Anna, and the maids of Downton<br /> This nonfiction memoir is the true story of one woman’s life in service to the great houses of England. As a kitchen maid, Powell saw firsthand the raucous vagaries of the aristocracy and the tragedies of the underclass, and reports them both with empathetic detail.<br />
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<em>What the Butler Winked At</em> by Eric Horne</h2>
Perfect for: Anyone who wishes Mr. Carson had a wild side<br /> One of the few memoirs that can give readers an intimate and page-turning peek into the scandalous lives of the fabulously wealthy in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Eric Horne’s recounting of his decades as a butler for British aristocracy provides secrets that are all the more scandalous because they are true.<br />
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<em>A Room with a View</em> by E.M. Forster</h2>
<strong>Perfect for:</strong> <em>Downton</em> fans who will miss its complex love stories<br /> Dubbed E.M. Forster’s most optimistic work, <em>A Room with a View</em> follows Lucy, a young girl growing up in early twentieth century England and Italy, as she is forced by a strict society to refuse herself of the true love of the lower class George in favor of the materialistic and rude Cecil. As Lucy struggles with what to do with her life, the reader explores in-depth how society functioned in Edwardian England.<br />
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<em>The Habits of the House</em> by Fay Weldon</h2>
<strong>Perfect for:</strong> Fans of <em>Downton Abbey</em>’s interplay between personal dramas and world-shaking historical background<br /> One of the primary writers of the original Upstairs, Downstairs series also wrote a trilogy of novels about the travails of an English household staring down the barrel of the twentieth century. Sound familiar? The first book in the series kicks off with the arrival of a beautiful Chicago heiress, who might just change the Dilberne estate’s fortunes.<br />
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<em>Love in a Cold Climate</em> by Nancy Mitford</h2>
<strong>Perfect for:</strong> Those who want more social-climbing marriage stories<br /> Romance and scandal in high society make up the bulk of Nancy Mitford’s <em>Love in a Cold Climate</em>, in which beautiful and wealthy young debutante Polly is bored by her numerous suitors much to her hoity toity mother’s annoyance. The novel follows the hidden drama that courses like blood through the veins of the aristocratic Montdore manor in early twentieth century London.<br />
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<em>No Angel</em> by Penny Vincenzi</h2>
<strong>Perfect for:</strong> Lady Edith and Lady Mary devotees<br /> This novel retains <em>Downton Abbey</em>’s epic scope, zooming in on aristocratic heiress Celia Lytton and the ways her headstrong decisions affect the lives of those around her.<br />
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<em>The Cazalet Chronicles</em> by Elizabeth Jane Howard</h2>
<strong>Perfect for:</strong> True history buffs<br /> Set in London around the World War II era, Howard’s series goes inside the Cazalet family, exploring the inner thoughts of the three generations of Cazalets as well as their friends and servants. While the stories are deeply personal, they also investigate the effects WWII had on families from numerous perspectives. The book series was adapted into BBC mini-series <em>The Cazalets</em> in 2001.<br />
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<em>Longbourne</em> by Jo Baker</h2>
<strong>Perfect for:</strong> Viewers who knew that all the real action happened downstairs<br /> This retelling of Jane Austen’s <em>Pride and Prejudice</em> shows the events of the Bennet household from the servants’ perspective. Austen neglected the servants in her stories, but Jo Baker amends that here, proving that their stories are just as dramatic and witty as those of the rich dilettantes.<br />
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<em>Servants</em> by Lucy Lethbridge</h2>
<strong>Perfect for:</strong> Those who prefer downstairs to up<br /><em>Downton</em> fans wanting for more of a lesson in the Mrs. Patmores and Mrs. Hugheses of the world should look no further than this history of the help, ranging from the eighteenth century to the modern times. The books also offers detailed explanations for each position, just in case you don’t actually remember what a footman is supposed to do but are afraid to ask.<br />
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<em>The Remains of the Day</em> by Kazuo Ishiguro</h2>
<strong>Perfect for:</strong> Those who ship Carson and Mrs. Hughes<br /> As 1989’s Man Booker Prize for fiction winner, Ishiguro’s third novel follows a butler’s (Stevens) unresolved relationship with a former housekeeper (Miss Kenton). Told through diary entries, the beloved book flips between themes of dignity, desire, and loyalty in pre-World War II-era Britain.<br />
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<em>The Forsyte Saga</em> by John Galsworthy</h2>
<strong>Perfect for:</strong> Fans who don’t need a likable protagonist<br /> Galsworthy epic spanned five volumes — three novels and two interludes — and examined the life, loves, and obsessions of Soames Forsyte, a moneyed man whose financial success never manages to satisfy him. The story is told across years and generations, as Galsworthy explores what money actually means to those who have lots of it. Plus, since the works are old enough to exist in the public domain, <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4397" target="_blank">they’re free to read</a>.<br />
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<em>The Custom of the Country</em> by Edith Wharton</h2>
<strong>Perfect for:</strong> Those who love to hate Lady Mary Crawley<br /> In Edith Warton’s 1913 novel, midwesterner Undine Spragg is in over her head when she uproots her family to move to New York. She marries a has been socialite Ralph Marvell and in hopes to raise her own social standing, devolves into high-ish society. <em>Downton</em> creator Julian Fellowes has <a href="http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_22625329/julian-fellowes-abbey-owes-much-wharton?source=most_emailed" target="_blank">cited the book as a major influence </a>on him and the show, and traces of Undine show up in various characters in Yorkshire.</div>
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Downton Abbey has become something of a cultural phenomenon on both sides of the pond since it first aired in 2010. Beginning with the sinking of the Titanic, the programme has followed the Crawley family and their servants through the latter 1910s, World War I, and into the mid-20s. Though it came to an end with this past December’s Christmas special, Julian Fellowes’s period piece ultimately ran for six series and a total of fifty-two episodes. If you’re a fan, you may be wondering where some of these fantastic places are and how you can visit them. You’ll be happy to know that many are easy to reach and love having fans come to call.</div>
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Inveraray Castle next to Loch Frye in Argyll, Scotland will be instantly recognisable to fans as Duneagle Castle, the home to Crawley relatives Hugh, Susan, and Rose MacClare. Duneagle was used as a location multiple times since the 2012 Christmas Special, but was eventually sold by the MacClares when they lost their fortune. In real life, a castle had existed on the estate since the 1400s, though the current manor home was constructed after a fire in 1877. Inveraray doesn’t seem to do much to take advantage of its Downton connection, but still offers tours, a tearoom, gardens, and regular events that will make a visit enjoyable for anyone.</div>
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Far from the streets of London, Basildon Park is a stately manor home in Berkshire where the interior has doubled for that of Grantham House, the city residence for the Crawleys during the summer season every year. Built between 1776 and 1783, the Georgian mansion has been in the care of the National Trust since 1978. As such, it’s open to tours and regularly hosts events including art exhibits, wildlife walks, and more. Basildon is more than happy to play up it use as a filming location for Downton Abbey and larger parties can opt for a filming talk or tour of the house.</div>
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Doubling as Brancaster Castle and the home of the Marquess of Hexham, Alnwick Castle first appears in the 2014 Christmas Special as the setting for a grousing party by Lord Sindersby, who is renting the estate. Dowager Countess actress Maggie Smith was familiar with the location well before its appearance in Downton, as it was also used for filming parts of Hogwarts Castle in the first two Harry Potter films. In real life, it’s the ancestral seat of the Duke of Northumberland and his family still resides there, though they have transformed significant parts of the castle and grounds into a great tourist attraction. It’s been a filming location on a dozen times over for different productions, but don’t expect as much Downton as it prefers to play up its Potter affiliation.</div>
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If you want to visit Buckingham Palace, you may have a difficult time getting inside, but Lancaster House in the West End of London was used for the interiors and Rose’s presentation at court during the 2013 Christmas Special. It’s not the only time Lancaster House doubled for Buckingham Palace, as it also did so for the film The Young Victoria. Since the house is owned and maintained by the British Government, specifically the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, it plays host to many important events and government functions. As such, it’s not often open to the public, but you can catch the occasional open day and take advantage of the chance to visit.</div>
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The Criterion Restaurant in London is one of those rare venues in Downton Abbey that actually gets to play itself, appearing as a dinner location for Edith Crawley and Michael Gregson. The 1874 neo-Byzantine restaurant is Grade II listed and is lavishly decorated on the inside. Despite a brief financial hiccup in 2015 after a rent hike forced it into administration, it continues to operate. You might want to set aside some money to eat there, however, as it can get a little pricey.</div>
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Lincoln Castle</h3>
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One of the more interesting subplots of the programme have involved John and Anna Bates, especially during the time in which he was falsely accused of murder and sent to York Prison. In reality, the prison scenes were all done at Lincoln Castle, a fortress built by William the Conqueror in the 11<sup style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Century and has served as a jail and law court in more modern times, allowing its cells to easily double for John Bates’ own accommodations. Lincolnshire County Council now operates the castle as a museum that offers tours of the medieval castle, the Victorian prison, and its special Magna Carta exhibit, where the famous legal document has housed a copy since 1215. Tickets cover all three exhibits.</div>
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Sister to Lord Grantham and widow of Lord Marmaduke Painswick, Lady Rosamund Painswick resided at the real-life West Wycombe Park when not in London. It was used for filming during the fifth series, though it’s no stranger to use as a location, having appeared in The Importance of Being Earnest, 2011’s W.E., and other productions. As with Alnwick, it was home of real nobles, the Dashwood family, who held the title of Baronet of Great Britain. Run by the National Trust since 1943, it is both a museum and an actual home for the current Baronet, Sir Edward Dashwood. The house is only open for a few months every year, so make sure to plan your trip accordingly.</div>
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If you want to experience the trenches of World War I in a much more subdued manner than Matthew Crawley and other members of Downton Abbey did, you can visit Trench Farm in Akenham where those scenes were filmed. Recreating the Battle of Somme for the programme, Trench Farm has accurate reproductions of both the English and German sides during the war and is often bused by film and television productions. You’ll need to make an appointment to visit (in case some filming is going on), but the location boasts a large car park, toilets, a camp site, and some period buildings.</div>
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If you want to go walking through the Yorkshire village of Downton, you’ll need to visit the real village of Bampton twenty miles west of Oxford. The streets and buildings within Bampton have been used repeatedly for filming while the series was ongoing. One of the most prominent locations is St. Mary the Virgin parish church, which was a filming location both externally as well as internally. There are also a number of tours out of London and Bath that will treat you to a Downton view of Bampton.</div>
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The number one stop for any Downton Abbey fan, Highclere Castle is the stand-in for the famous home. It is the county seat for the Earl of Carnarvon and home to the Herbert family, who use part of the mansion as their residence while utilising the rest for filming, galleries, and a museum. In addition to its Downton heritage, Highclere also has an impressive collection of Egyptian artefacts belonging to the 5<sup style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Earl, George Herbert, from his expedition of King Tut’s tomb with Howard Carter. Do be sure to check the castle’s website for opening times as it does tend to close during the winter months, though it also has an app that will let you explore the home from afar.</div>
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So you read the book before you saw the movie. Congrats! Unfortunately—as these examples prove—that doesn't always make you an expert on what, exactly, is going to unfold on the big screen. <strong>(It should go without saying, but this article contains spoilers—lots of them. You've been warned!)</strong></div>
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1. <em>Jurassic Park</em></h4>
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<em><br /> Jurassic Park, </em>one of the most popular summer blockbusters of all time, doesn't completely line up with the events described in Michael Crichton's best-selling novel of the same name. At the end of the book, the Costa Rican military comes to the rescue by bombing Site A on Isla Nublar. But director Steven Spielberg felt like changing it up. Instead of a military intervention, Spielberg decided to have the <em>T. Rex</em> return to save the protagonists from a <em></em><em>Velociraptor</em> attack. "I think the star of this movie is the <em>T. Rex</em>," Spielberg <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9bKxRQfvs8" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">explained</a> at the time. "The audience will hate me if the <em>T. Rex</em> doesn't come back for one more heroic appearance."</div>
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The book and movie's body counts vary, too. By the end of the novel, John Hammond has died, and it is implied that Ian Malcolm has as well. Both survive in the movie. On the other hand, the park's game warden, Robert Muldoon, and IgGen's attorney, Donald Gennaro, perish in the big screen adaptation, but live on in the book. </div>
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2. <em>Planet of the Apes</em></h4>
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<em><br /> Planet of the Apes</em> features one of the most iconic twist endings in movie history: Astronaut George Taylor (played by Charlton Heston) discovers he has been marooned on a post-apocalyptic Earth the entire time. But in <em>La Planète des Singes</em>, the French novel it is based on, the main character—journalist Ulysse Merou—lands on a different planet during the course of his travels, one inhabited by self-aware apes, sentient monkeys, and tribes of dimwitted humans. When Ulysse finally makes it back to Earth, he is shocked to learn that it is now 700 years in the future, and that a similar hierarchy has emerged at home. </div>
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<em>Twilight Zone</em> creator <a href="http://www.rodserling.com/pota.htm" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">Rod Serling</a>, who co-wrote the film's screenplay, was the one who ultimately decided to make the planet of the apes Earth in the distant future. </div>
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<b>3. <em>A Clockwork Orange</em></b></h4>
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Stanley Kubrick based his screenplay on the shortened American version of the British novel by Anthony Burgess. This telling omitted the final chapter of the book, focused on Alex after he is rehabilitated. Though he grows out of his murderous tendencies in Burgess' text, in Kubrick's interpretation, Alex remains as psychotic as ever. Kubrick didn't like the tale's original ending; he felt it was entirely too optimistic given the story's tone and themes. "I think whatever Burgess had to say about the story was said in the book,” <a href="http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0012.html" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">Kubrick</a> said. “But I did invent a few useful narrative ideas and reshape some of the scenes." </div>
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Burgess was not a fan of the final product. "The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century ago," <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=QGPU1W9gqSEC&pg=PA313&lpg=PA313&dq=book+I+am+best+known+for,+or+only+known+for,+is+a+novel+I+am+prepared+to+repudiate&source=bl&ots=AypzlbhC9z&sig=9Cxci0NnpewnvVD4r8SXEAKFZOk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Fz85VariEefIsQTH14CYDA&ved=0CCEQ#v=onepage&q=book%20I%20am%20best%20known%20for%2C%20or%20only%20known%20for%2C%20is%20a%20novel%20I%20am%20prepared%20to%20repudiate&f=false" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">Burgess</a> later recalled. "It became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence. The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me until I die."</div>
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<b>4. <em>Fight Club</em></b></h4>
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The film version of <em>Fight Club</em> remains faithful to author Chuck Palahniuk's original plot—until the very end, that is. The movie version wraps up as the narrator, standing beside Marla, watches a series of explosions caused by his now-absent alter ego, Tyler Durden. At the end of the book, however, the narrator wakes up in recovery from his gunshot wound. He thinks he's in heaven, but Palahniuk makes it clear that he's actually in a mental institution. Several hospital attendants ask him when he's going to start Project Mayhem again, inferring that Tyler Durden is still very much a part of him.</div>
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Director <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=e9s3BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&dq=wanted+people+to+love+tyler&source=bl&ots=lo1cIbx3XW&sig=rHagd8ebrvaB50gC7vn6TEkjw6M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Wj85VZLHKNTZsASWvIGgAQ&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=wanted%20people%20to%20love%20tyler&f=false" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">David Fincher</a> explained his choice by arguing that the book was too devoted to the narrator's alter ego: "[I] wanted people to love Tyler (Durden), but I also wanted them to be OK with his vanquishing." </div>
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel <em>The Scarlet Letter</em> is an exploration of guilt, punishment, and mob mentality in 17th-century New England. At the end of the classic tale, the townspeople persecuting Prynne learn that the father of her baby is Reverend Dimmesdale, who eventually dies from immense guilt.</div>
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The 1995 film version of <em>The Scarlet Letter</em> opted instead for a happy Hollywood ending (read: no one dies). Instead, Reverend Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne leave their town in order to build a new life together.</div>
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Truman Capote's beloved novella was also given a simplified and sanitized Hollywood ending. In the book, Holly Golightly loses her cat and abandons New York for Argentina—it's unclear where the free spirit will end up next. The movie, on the other hand, ends with Audrey Hepburn's Holly reuniting with Cat and sharing a passionate kiss with neighbor Paul. (There's no romance between them in Capote's version.) </div>
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Capote wasn't a fan of the movie based on his work, nor of the casting of Audrey Hepburn. "I had lots of offers for that book, from practically everybody," Capote said <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=id1UDqySnzoC&pg=PA157&lpg=PA157&dq=I+had+lots+of+offers+for+that+book,+from+practically+everybody&source=bl&ots=k7KOiSUjME&sig=_xJ4bfxQLnQ8kQFUP0YH33n4Ud8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nj85VYaUEPPnsAStzIC4Bg&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=I%20had%20lots%20of%20offers%20for%20that%20book%2C%20from%20practically%20everybody&f=false" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">in an interview</a>. "And I sold it to this group at Paramount because they promised things, they made a list of everything, and they didn't keep a single one." </div>
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Jodi Picoult's <em>My Sister's Keeper </em>tells the story of a young leukemia patient named Kate, whose parents conceive another daughter, Anna, in order to have an organ donor for their firstborn. When she turns 13, Anna is asked to donate one of her kidneys to her dying sister. She refuses and sues her parents for medical emancipation. </div>
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In the book, Anna gets into a terrible car accident, and her kidneys are posthumously harvested for Kate, who survives. But for the 2009 adaptation, director Nick Cassevetes chose to reverse the sisters' fates. Kate ends up succumbing to her illness after she refuses to accept her sister's organs. Cassevetes believed his movie's ending was more accurate after he visited pediatric hospitals and talked to terminally ill patients. </div>
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"Going and visiting people in the hospital, this story repeated over and over and over again," Cassevetes told <a href="http://movies.about.com/od/mysisterskeeper/a/nick-cassavetes_3.htm" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">About.com</a>. "In reality, none of these stories ended like the book did." </div>
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<b>8. <em>The Mist</em></b></h4>
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Stephen King's <em>The Mist</em> ends on a vague note—a few survivors head towards the source of a mysterious radio transmission as the titular mist creeps around them. But director Frank Darabont decided to give the film a more definitive—and more gut-wrenching—conclusion. David, played by Thomas Jane, comes to realize that the group's survival efforts are futile. To prevent any further suffering, he kills the remaining survivors, including his son, just before the military shows up to inform him that the situation is now under control. </div>
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"How primitive do people get?" <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=unYHBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA224&lpg=PA224&dq=It%27s+Lord+of+the+Flies+that+happens+to+have+some+cool+monsters+in+it&source=bl&ots=eWq6DC7YBy&sig=rsuk6uB0vnqqtUoQENn1eGstLg0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3z85VcbGA_bbsASosoDQDw&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=It%27s%20Lord%20of%20the%20Flies%20that%20happens%20to%20have%20some%20cool%20monsters%20in%20it&f=false" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">Darabont said</a> of his new ending. "It's <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">Lord of the Flies</a></em> that happens to have some cool monsters in it." <a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2007-06-20-stephen-king-movies_N.htm" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">King</a>, for his part, gave the new ending two thumbs-up: "The ending is such a jolt—wham! It's frightening. But people who go to see a horror movie don't necessarily want to be sent out with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollyanna" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">Pollyanna</a> ending." </div>
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<b>9. <em>The Lorax</em></b></h4>
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At the end of Dr. Seuss' <em>The Lorax</em>, the tale's Once-ler gives the boy the last-ever Truffula seed in the hopes that he'll be able to grow a new forest. But there's no room for ambiguity in the story's 2012 cartoon version: Before the credits roll, new Truffula Trees are flourishing and The Lorax has returned to the forest. </div>
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<b>10. <em>Red Alert</em></b></h4>
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<em>Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, </em>based on Peter George's <em>Red Alert</em>, takes a comedic approach to the source material. Instead of narrowly avoiding a nuclear catastrophe at the zero hour (like the book does), Stanley Kubrick decided to blow up the world because of some petty bickering. </div>
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Originally, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_FQRBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=I+decided+it+was+farce+and+not+consistent+with+the+satiric+tone+of+the+rest+of+the+film&source=bl&ots=bJqQNnSOvs&sig=0WXrmhJUqmtEO5hK76Wz1V88DAc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qJc_VbaxM_X_sASd4YD4BQ&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=I%20decided%20it%20was%20farce%20and%20not%20consistent%20with%20the%20satiric%20tone%20of%20the%20rest%20of%20the%20film&f=false" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">Kubrick planned</a> to have everyone in the situation room get into a big pie fight. But "I decided it was farce and not consistent with the satiric tone of the rest of the film," he said.</div>
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There are some pretty major differences between <em>Forrest Gump'</em>s book and film versions. Though the movie ends with Jenny's death and shows Forrest raising their child alone, the book wraps up with Forrest starting up his own shrimp business, in memory of his college friend Bubba. (Another key difference: in Winston Groom's book, Jenny survives, but marries another man and has his child.) </div>
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"[Screenwriter] Eric Roth departed substantially from the book,” Zemeckis <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-07-08/entertainment/9407080087_1_forrest-gump-zemeckis-film-love-story" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">told the <em>Chicago Tribune</em></a>. “We flipped the two elements of the book, making the love story primary and the fantastic adventures secondary. Also, the book was cynical and colder than the movie. In the movie, Gump is a completely decent character, always true to his word. He has no agenda and no opinion about anything except Jenny, his mother, and God." </div>
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<em>Who Censored Roger Rabbit?</em>, the inspiration for <em>Who Framed Roger Rabbit?</em>, is a surprisingly dark murder mystery. In the novel, Roger hires Detective Eddie Valiant to figure out why Rocco DeGreasy, the man who has the cartoon rabbit under contract, hasn't given him his own comic strip. During Valiant's investigation, Roger Rabbit is murdered and his wife Jessica is framed. Valiant spends the rest of the story trying to figure out who killed Roger. (The book ends with the revelation that a mysterious genie is the culprit.)</div>
Although there's still a murder at the center of the 1988 movie version—this time, Toontown owner Marvin Acme is the victim—Disney and Touchstone Pictures gave the entire story an overhaul when the company <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty4xkdBbnOk" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">acquired the film rights</a> from author Gary K. Wolf. The studios hoped to make a family-friendly blockbuster in order to rejuvenate their flagging animation department, and saw <em>Who Censored Roger Rabbit?</em> as a means to that end.<br />
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In 2007, Will Smith starred in author Richard Matheson's <em>I Am Legend</em> as Dr. Robert Neville, the sole survivor of a worldwide plague that turns humans into infected, vampire-like creatures. </div>
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The book ends with Dr. Neville, who spends his days slaying the infected to protect himself, learning that he's considered a monster to the creatures who are now the dominant race on the planet. He's imprisoned and later executed for his crimes. In the movie, however, Neville solidifies his hero status by handing off a cure for the virus ravaging the planet to a healthy woman and boy. <a href="http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/must-watch-i-am-legends-original-ending-this-is-amazing/" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">An alternate ending</a> that showed more interaction between Neville and the creatures was shot, but the filmmakers opted to go with an ending in which Will Smith sacrifices himself for the sake of the human race.</div>
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The first <em>Rambo</em> movie is based on the novel <em>First Blood </em>by author David Morrell. The book and the movie both tell the story of a troubled Vietnam War vet, but the book ends with his death after a violent showdown with Chief Teasle. In the movie, Rambo and Teasle survive, and Rambo turns himself into the authorities.</div>
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The reason for the change: Once again, early test audiences <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/movies/bp/first-blood-turns-30-rambo-original-dark-end-174610790.html" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">didn't approve</a> of the original ending, and wanted to see Rambo live to fight another day. </div>
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The 1956 black-and-white classic, based on Jack Finney's <em>The Body Snatchers</em>, ends with protagonist Miles ranting and raving ("You're next!") along a busy highway of pod people and non-believers. But in the book, the titular body snatchers flee Earth after Miles discovers where their pods are grown and begins to set them on fire.</div>
Though director Don Siegel and screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring were happy with their unsettling ending, the movie studio demanded a more hopeful outcome. To keep the bosses happy, the filmmakers added in a brief epilogue, during which the audience learns that local police had alerted national authorities to the presence of the space invaders. <a href="http://www.aboutthesky.com/the-body-snatchers" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">Sniffed Siegel</a>, "The film was nearly ruined by those in charge at Allied Artists, who added a preface and an ending that I don't like." </div>
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Audiences have been watching for decades as Hollywood tries to cram its favorite books into two-hour movies, with varying degrees of success. <br />
Now, however, television is catching up, and it offers one important thing that movies just can't: time.<br />
Deep in the throes of what some critics are calling <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/business/media/fenced-in-by-televisions-excess-of-excellence.html">the golden age of television,</a> producers are turning to bookshelves for inspiration. With anywhere from four to 34 hours at their disposal, directors can take time with the material, bringing more fully-realized literary worlds to life.<br />
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This isn't a new idea. The BBC packed the 90s with adaptations of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen and others. More recently, critical darlings like "Friday Night Lights," "Dexter," and "Game of Thrones" have been pulled from the page. But the trend is accelerating, and everything from fantasy epics to Russian classics are getting their own series.<br />
Many recent adaptations have already found audiences ("Outlander," "The Leftovers," "Orange is the New Black"). Below are some new projects headed for the small screen, and others that have recently debuted.<br />
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"Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery</h3>
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Start braiding your hair — Anne Shirley is back. <br />
Last month, <a href="http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/anne-of-green-gables-tv-series-cbc-1201678058/">Variety</a> reported that the CBC is set to produce a new spin on the series, which has been a sensation around the world for over a century. According to <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-book-anne-idUSN1754861220080319">Reuters</a>, the books have sold more than 50 million copies in 20 different languages.<br />
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Montgomery's series follows the spirited orphan Anne Shirley as she learns to adapt to life on Prince Edward Island. The show will be called simply "Anne," and it is set to premiere in Canada in 2017. Moira Walley-Beckett, best known for her work on "Breaking Bad," will serve as the executive producer and writer. <br />
"Adapting Anne's story really excites me," Walley-Beckett <a href="http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/anne-of-green-gables-tv-series-cbc-1201678058/">told Variety</a>. "Anne's issues are contemporary issues: feminism, prejudice, bullying and a desire to belong. The stakes are high and her emotional journey is tumultuous. I'm thrilled to delve deeply into this resonant story, push the boundaries and give it new life."<br />
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"The Night Manager" by John le Carre</h3>
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Le Carre is the master of spy novels — it can't hurt that he actually <a data-pjax="true" href="http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/09/08/bcst-books-thread-spy-novels">once was a spy</a> — and the latest BBC adaptation of his work will be "most radical ever done," the author's son told <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/feb/12/bbcs-20m-spy-thriller-le-carre-adaptation">The Guardian</a>.<br />
The six-part series takes on le Carre's 1993 novel, "The Night Manager," a post-Cold War thriller about a former soldier and his nemesis, a charismatic arms dealer. The adaptation's cast boasts a string of familiar faces, including Hugh Laurie of "House" and Tom Hiddleston of "The Avengers."<br />
The show will debut this month on the BBC, and on AMC in the U.S. in April.<br />
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The Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante</h3>
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Ferrante fans suffering withdrawal after the fourth and final book in the series came out in September will get a boost in the form of a 32-part television adaptation. The beloved quartet of books traces the friendship of two women, Elena and Lily, over the course of their entire lives, beginning in Naples in the 1950s. <br />
The series became tremendously popular in recent years, though the author's true identity remains a mystery. For those hoping to skip the books and simply catch up with the show, there will still be some reading involved: subtitles. The New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/arts/television/elena-ferrante-novels-destined-for-television-series.html">reports</a> that the show will be filmed in Italian, in Italy. <br />
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"11-23-63" by Stephen King</h3>
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<em>Now airing on Hulu</em><br />
Stephen King likes messing with time: His 2011 hit novel tells the story of a man who travels back to 1963 to stop the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. But as everybody knows, time travel is never that simple.<br />
The television adaption has some serious star power behind it: James Franco plays Jake Epping, the time-traveling history revisionist, and J.J. Abrams, fresh off of "Star Wars," is an executive producer. <br />
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"The Magicians" series by Lev Grossman</h3>
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<em>Now airing on SyFy</em><br />
Grossman's popular series, centered on a magical school called Brakebills, has long been hailed as the grim, grown-up version of "Harry Potter." Young magicians struggle to master spells — and their own emotions — before inevitably getting sucked into an otherworldly adventure with deadly consequences.<br />
SyFy made its own alterations before unleashing the TV series. Brakebills is now a grad school instead of a college, and the characters — Quentin, Alice, Eliot, Penny — have been aged four to five years to compensate. There are enough longing glances and smoldering looks to make the show seem a bit like "Dawson's Creek" with magic — if that can be taken as a compliment.<br />
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"The Interestings" by Meg Wolitzer</h3>
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<em>Forthcoming</em><br />
Wolitzer's sprawling tale of friendship and love is heavy on the angst — both teenage and middle age. "The Interestings" unfolds over three decades, following a group of friends who meet as high schoolers at an arts camp and struggle to maintain their bond as they confront the realities of aging. <br />
The series is set to be directed by Mike Newell. Deadline <a href="http://deadline.com/2016/02/lauren-ambrose-cast-amazon-pilot-the-interestings-1201704573/">announced that Lauren Ambrose</a>, of "Six Feet Under," has been cast as Jules, the main character with acting aspirations, but a less romantic reality.<br />
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"MaddAddam" by Margaret Atwood</h3>
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<em>Forthcoming</em><br />
The queen of dystopia is getting her television throne: Margaret Atwood's trilogy — "Oryx and Crake," "The Year of the Flood" and "MaddAddam" — is set to be <a href="http://www.vulture.com/2014/08/margaret-atwood-maddaddam-paperback-chat.html">adapted</a> for HBO.<br />
Darren Aronofsky will be at the helm; he's best known for the disturbing and stylish "Black Swan." He should be right at home in Atwood's post-apocalyptic world where genetic mutations have altered what's left of humanity. <br />
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"Sharp Objects" by Gillian Flynn</h3>
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<em>Forthcoming</em><br />
Gillian Flynn conquered the big screen with "Gone Girl" — she wrote not only the novel but the screenplay as well, which is rare for Hollywood adaptations. Now she's tackling TV by <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/marti-noxon-jason-blum-adapting-717168">adapting</a> her debut novel, "Sharp Objects." <br />
Published in 2006, the book follows reporter Camille Preaker as she investigates a string of brutal murders in her hometown. Get ready for some twists. <br />
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"His Dark Materials" series by Philip Pullman</h3>
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<em>Forthcoming</em><br />
Forget the 2007 film "The Golden Compass." Most people who love this supernatural young adult series have purged that Nicole Kidman adaptation from their minds.<br />
The BBC is now adapting the series for TV, so you'll need to study up on daemons and dust and the dangers of the Magisterium. The books follow Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry on adventures through parallel universes.<br />
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"War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy</h3>
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<em>Released January 2016</em><br />
Apparently more people lie about reading this book than have actually read it, if a recent <a data-pjax="true" href="http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/02/09/books-what-have-you-lied-about-reading">Telegraph</a> poll is to be believed. It will definitely be easier to bluff your way through the Russian classic after you watch the six-part BBC adaptation. <br />
The book begins in 1805, with Napoleon's armies inching ever closer to Russia's borders. It tracks the drama of five aristocratic families and their young, privileged heirs. Clocking in at over 1,000 pages, it's considered one of the <br />
The book begins in 1805, with Napoleon's armies inching ever closer to Russia's borders. It tracks the drama of five aristocratic families and their young, privileged heirs. Clocking in at over 1,000 pages, it's considered one of the longest books in popular literature, but if you have eight hours, now you can get the gist. <br />
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Librarygirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15455352027109898676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890356829008221813.post-1372956868964249992016-02-23T08:01:00.000-08:002016-02-23T08:01:14.527-08:00All Your Favorite British TV Shows, Mapped<div class="hed" itemprop="headline">
Oh, so <em>that’s </em>where the U.K. version of <em>The Office </em>takes place! Can you find the location of your favourite Brit show?</div>
<figure class="lead-image"><img alt="Image Courtesy of Tim Ritz" src="http://cdn.citylab.com/media/img/citylab/2016/02/GBTVMAP_SiteHosted_v6/lead_large.jpg?1455637198" height="400" itemprop="image" title="All Your Favorite British TV Shows, Mapped" width="294" /></figure><figure class="lead-image"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawlty_Towers"><em>Fawlty Towers</em></a> is set in Torquay. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(UK_TV_series)"><em>The </em><em>Office</em></a>, in Slough; <em><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/">Downton Abbey</a> </em>in North Yorkshire.</figure><figure class="lead-image">If you’re a British TV enthusiast, you’d know the name of the town where your favorite show is set. But could you pick it out on a map?<br />
Unlikely.<br />
While settling in to an episode of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foyle%27s_War"><em>Foyle’s War</em></a>, designer <a href="http://timritz.com/">Tim Ritz</a>’s wife asked him to show her where, exactly, Hastings was. He drew a map of the U.K. on a sticky note, with a dot on the East Sussex village.<br />
But he didn’t stop there. He added a dot for <em>Downton Abbey</em>, and another in Derbyshire for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112130/"><em>Pride & Prejudice</em></a>, and ended up with the first draft for what would become The Great British Television Map.<br />
“All of our friends and families have been getting into British TV more and more over the years,” he tells CityLab. But as an American, he realized that Americans’ (as he puts it) notoriously “feeble grasp on international geography” might be getting in the way of completely understanding the shows.<br />
The Great British Television Map (h/t: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=the+great+british+bake+off&oq=the+great+british+bake+off&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64l3j69i60.2846j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8"><em>The Great British Bake Off</em></a>) attempts to remedy that. Though by no means comprehensive, Ritz’s design presents a geography of the U.K.’s airwaves. In plotting the locations, Ritz says he took a cue from vintage London Underground maps. Color-coded dots correspond to the original broadcast network.<br />
“Layer upon layer of cultural understandings underpin the television we watch,” Ritz says. When American viewers watch American TV, he adds, they <b>“</b>inherently understand references to everything from snack brands to the history of certain places.” But foreign viewers may not, and likewise, “British geography is one of those layers of reference in British TV” that may elude American viewers, Ritz says.<br />
In compiling the map, Ritz says he expected more shows to follow the <em>Downton Abbey</em> strategy of setting the show in one location (Yorkshire, in northern England) and filming it in another (Highclere Castle, in West Berkshire, where it’s sunnier). But he was surprised to find that most shows were filmed on or close to their intended settings. London, unsurprisingly, was the most daunting to account for—Ritz’s map accommodates it in a large inset, and “even then it was bursting at the seams to contain all the series in there,” he says.<br />
Since launching the map, Ritz has gotten some comments (and a few outright complaints) about missing shows, but he’s taking them in stride. He’s looking into overhauling the design to accommodate more programs in an updated edition, and he’s considering taking on continental Europe and North America, as well.</figure><br />Librarygirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15455352027109898676noreply@blogger.com0