Mintage’s bloody bedroom Hal-loween display on CommercialDrive has been taken down afterbeing vandalized, but some localresidents find the owners’ reasonbehind the move unacceptable.

Co-owner Skylar Stock said theydecided to take down the displayFriday morning after he discoveredtheir store windows had been com-pletely covered with glue and pic-tures of women.

“I can deal with somebody beingupset with the window,” he said.“If somebody wants to talk to meabout it, then that’s fine. But thiskind of pushed it a little too far.”

Stock said they still stand bytheir window display but that theyfelt the need to take it down for the“safety of (their) neighbourhoodand employees.”

“When people start vandalizingto some degree, I don’t know howfar they’re going to go and I’m notwilling to find out,” he added.

Gone are the blood-soaked bedand sheets. A big poster addressedto the community hangs on the vin-tage clothing store’s windowexplaining the move.

“We recognize that some peo-ple have been offended and thiswas certainly not our intention,”the letter says. “Since putting upthe display, we have had many peo-

ple provide positive comments inthe spirit of Halloween, but this actof vandalism takes what wasintended in the spirit of Halloweento a whole new level.”

Amalia Nickel, who stopped toread the letter yesterday, describedit as an “irresponsible apology.”

“They don’t actually apologizefor anything except for peopleinterpreting what they did in the

wrong way,” Nickel said.Kathy Parsons, who stood out-

side the store Thursday holding asign against the display, said she’sthankful it’s been taken down.

“(But) the unfortunate thing iswith the letter. The reasoning thatthey’re saying for taking it down isthat they were vandalized, whichis a little ludicrous in my opinion,”she said.

John Seifred, who also read theletter, said he gives the store own-ers credit for posting it.

“I had mixed feelings (about thedisplay), but I appreciate the signthat the store owners are willingto say that if they offended any-body, we apologize,” he said. “Thattakes great courage and greatcourage to have a display like thattoo.” PHYLICIA TORREVILLAS

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The family of a pilot whowas killed in a fiery crashafter his small planeslammed into a road nearVancouver’s airport isthanking the Good Samar-itans who tried to savehim

Luc Fortin, 44, was oneof nine people who wereon the plane that fell fromthe sky after an oil lighttriggered a return to theairport.

Fortin’s father-in-lawJohn Rayson told a newsconference Saturday thatthe family is also gratefulto the first responderswho came to the aid of hisson-in-law and the otherpassengers.

Fortin died in hospitalThursday, about fivehours after he was pulledfrom the burning wreck-age.

“We certainly send ourheartfelt wishes and ourprayers to all those sur-

vivors, for the best possi-ble recovery,” Rayson said.

A trust fund has beenset up for Fortin’s wife,Dagne, and the couple’s16-month-old daughterKatelyn.

“We’d just thank every-body, and Katelyn’s dadwill be missed a lot,”Dagne said. “He was agood man.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Luc Fortin with his 16-month-old daughter Katelyn. Fortin died in hospital Thursday after the plane he was piloting crashed near Vancouver International Airport.

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Imam falsely charged in Saudi Arabia: WitnessesEyewitnesses and a humanrights group are imploringthe Canadian governmentto act fast after they say animam with Vancouver tieswas beaten, arrested andfalsely charged while onpilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

Usama Al-Atar was lead-ing a prayer recitation inthe holy city of Medina yes-terday morning whenmembers of the country’sreligious police reportedly

asked the small group tomove along, said a Britishmember of the group.

Mohamed Hayward saidthe officials then proceed-ed to harass the pilgrimsand zeroed in on Al-Atar.

“We were set upon byabout 10 to 15 of these reli-gious police and at the endof it all he got jumped andarrested,” Hayward said.

“They virtually stran-gled him. We saw him go

black and blue.”Al-Atar, who moved to

Vancouver with his familyin 1991 and received hisundergrad chemistry de-gree at UBC and his PhD inchemistry from SFU, is thefounder of the group Ac-tive Muslim Youth ofBritish Columbia.

Hayward said the 33-year-old Canadian didn’ttry to resist the roughingup and remained passive,

but authorities still wenton to arrest him.

“Now he’s languishingin a jail,” he said, addingthat Al-Atar is expected toappear in court this morn-ing to face unclear charges.

Canada’s Department ofForeign Affairs said yester-day that diplomats in SaudiArabia are aware of the ar-rest and are ready to pro-vide consular assistance ifneeded. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Two more people remainin critical condition,including one person whohad spinal surgery on Fri-day, while four peoplewere in stable but seriouscondition, the VancouverCoastal Health Authorityhas said.

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Mayor Gregor Robertsonpromised more affordablehousing and stricter en-forcement for negligentlandowners in Vision Van-couver’s homelessness, af-fordability and housingplatform yesterday.

At the heart of the plat-form is a 10-year affordablehousing and homeless plan,which includes 38,000 newaffordable homes in Van-couver, a task force tostrength renters’ rights andcontinued support forhomeless shelters and sen-iors’ housing.

Robertson also pledged

an online apartment reg-istry that will allow rentersto publicly track landown-ers’ work orders and prop-erty violations. “You’ll beable to know which rentersare holding up their endand which ones are the badapples,” he said.

He also hopes the reg-istry will pressure landown-ers to improve theirbuildings quickly.

“(We want to) protectrenters — take a hard lineagainst landlords who re-fuse to upgrade their prop-erty to the city’s standards.”

Last week an inquest washeld into the deaths ofthree Vancouver men whowere killed in a fire on Pan-dora Street last December.Police determined the firewas a result of a faulty elec-trical cord, while an inquestlater determined that theresidence had no workingfire alarms.

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UBC openaboutanimal use Newly released data fromUBC shows the institutionconducted research involv-ing nearly 212,000 animalsin 2010 and officials saythey’ve put the data onlineto be more transparent THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Two menstabbed athouse partyTwo men were taken tohospital yesterday withnon-life-threateninginjuries, followingstabbings at a house partyin Maple Ridge, policesaid.

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Protesters marched from the Art Gallery to Holy Rosary Cathedral on RichardsStreet to peacefully protest the abuse of aboriginal children in Canadian residen-tial schools between 1931 and 1996. The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic-sponsored group, prevented protesters from entering the cathedral. Occupy theVatican is independent of Occupy Vancouver.

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All 10 face-paint products testedcontained lead: 2009 report

Several products on store shelvesthis Halloween don’t list ingredients

Some parents may thinkthe ghost-white makeupthey lather on their kids’faces this Halloween nightis safe because of the “non-toxic” label on the package.

Think again, says JohnBennett.

The Sierra Club Canada

executive director said thatmany makeup productsthat claim to be non-toxicactually contain heavy met-als such as lead, which canharm children’s developingbrains. That revelation washighlighted in the 2009 re-port Pretty Scary: CouldHalloween Face Paint CauseLifelong Health Problems?by the U.S.-based Campaignfor Safer Cosmetics.

Six out of 10 face-paint

products tested containedallergens such as nickel,cobalt and/or chromium athigher-than-recommendedlevels.

Bennett suggests parentsvisit safecosmetics.org tolearn about natural, home-made makeup recipes thathe said are safer. To get abrown colour of makeup,the website recommendsmixing chocolate sauce in-to a cocoa-butter base.

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Jack-0’-lantern de-lightThe faces of more than 700 pumpkins will be setaglow by candles in the display that continuestonight.

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So wrong. Vancouver is very scary, too, but it’s not

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present the Top 10 ScariestThings in Vancouver on AllHallows Eve. Armed withthis list and a wooden stake,no harm will come to you asyou venture out on yourquest for treats.

10. The rain. It creepsslowly up your legs as youstand on the sidelineswatching the kids play soc-cer. Sometime around Nov.14, it reaches your brain. Ar-rggh.

9. The cost of housing. A500-square-foot one-bedroom apartment with a“den.” The “den” is just bigenough to store yourhomunculus.

8. Bike-lane intersections.If you love spectacular gory

crashes, hang around at the intersection of Pacific andBurrard, where there’s an entry into bridge traffic, twopedestrian crosswalks and a bike lane all in the sameplace. It’s called the Mash ... the Monster Mash.

7. Vision. Is clouded.6. COPE. Can’t.5. Non-Partisan Association (NPA). You’re kidding,

right? Bwah-ha-ha.4. Jersey Girl a.k.a. Premier Clark. Known to stalk photo

opps wearing low-cut sports jerseys, which scares thepants off the NDP’s David Schreck, not to be confusedwith that other green ogre with the same name.

3. The Great Pumpkin a.k.a. Translink. There are neverenough of these hearses that transport the Great Undeadto the office in the morning and take them back to theircrypts at night. At least, they smell like the undead, espe-cially when it rains. See 10.

2. The Vancouver Club. Favoured graveyard of theSecret Order of Unreconstructed Capitalists. Recentlyhaunted by the scariest of them all, Dick Cheney. Aieee!

1. Riot trolls. They may look like A students or athleticheroes, but they run riot and wreak havoc at the slightestannoyance, such as the hockey team losing a game. Theystrike fear into the hearts of those who spawned them(their parents), who must be wondering if it was such agood idea to bring them into the world. Scariest of all?They are immune to arrest.

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Even if you sell it, they will still comeThe sprawling eastern Iowa cornfieldsmade famous by the movie Field ofDreams are being sold to a companythat will preserve the site’s baseballlegacy, the owners announced yester-day.

Don and Becky Lansing said theyhave accepted an offer from Mike andDenise Stillman and their company,Go the Distance Baseball LLC, whichwill develop the site near Dyersville as

a baseball and softball complex. “We worked hard to maintain its

wholesome allure, and our successsays a lot about our nation’s love affairwith its national pastime,” Becky Lans-ing said in a statement. “It truly is aspecial place.”

The land has been in Don Lansing’sfamily since 1906. The couple put theproperty up for sale at $5.4 million USin May 2010. The parcel includes thetwo-bedroom house, baseballdiamond, six other buildings and 193acres — mostly cornfields — from themovie.

The Lansings said earlier this yearthat they had received severalinquiries about the site but were com-mitted to finding a buyer that wouldpreserve its legacy. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The article was cultur-ally racist towards: Amer-icans (it offended the U.S.citizens in our class, irre-gardless of their race, na-tionality, religion,gender, class, sexual ori-entation), Conservatives,and Christians who arepart of a group that rep-resents a 33,000+ totalnumber of “Christian”denominations. MARYANNE, VANCOUVER

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Kodak catching up with patents

Picture this: Kodak — thecompany that invented thefirst digital camera in 1975,and developed the phototechnology inside most cell-phones and digital devices— is in the midst of theworst crisis in its 131-yearhistory.

Eastman Kodak Co. isbetting that a big cash infu-sion from the sale of 1,100digital-imaging inventionswill see it through a transi-tion that has raised thespectre of bankruptcy.

Kodak popularized pho-tography over a centuryago. It marketed theworld’s first flexible-rollfilm in 1888 and trans-formed picture-taking intoa mass activity with the $1Brownie camera in 1900.But for too long it stayedfirmly focused on its 20th-century cash cow, andfailed to capitalize quicklyon in digital photography.

Kodak has been playingcatch-up. Pummelled byWall Street over its dwin-dling cash reserves — andits attempts to reinvent it-self with digital imagingand printing — Kodak hasbeen hawking the digitalpatents since July. “One

thing I would stress is: It isour intention to retain a li-cence to any of the intellec-tual property we sell,” saysKodak spokesman GerardMeuchner. “It’s like you sellthe property but still get tolive in the house.”

Many analysts foresee

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Kim Coates is so convinc-ing on Sons of Anarchy thatreal-life bikers like to givehim their opinion of theshow.

Case in point. Coateswas at the gym a few yearsago when an ex-biker clubmember got right in hisface.

“Listen man,” Coates re-calls the guy saying, “I’mnot gonna pull any punch-es.” Using colourful lan-guage, the biker went on totell Coates that while heenjoyed his performance,he had problems with theshow.

The 52-year-old actorcalmly stood his ground. “Isaid to him, ‘It’s a TV show.Based on some truths,based on Hamletmetaphorically, but it’s aTV show.”'

Maybe it was the Hamletreference that soothed thedude. Maybe it was Coates’Harley out front. Whatever,Coates was able to makethe case that he was “justtrying to do a televisionshow within the genre ofthe biker world.”

Canadians who have notyet found the series on thePay TV service Super Chan-nel can catch up from thebeginning when it pre-mieres tomorrow night at10 p.m. on FX Canada. Thenew Rogers-owned special-ty channel launchestonight.

Coates loves being onSons of Anarchy and isthrilled the series set an FXpremiere ratings record

when it returned in theU.S. last month for a fourthseason. The Saskatchewannative has never beenbusier. Besides Sons of An-archy, he was a familiarface on the just-finishedHBO series Entourage.

Coates has roles in fivefilms set to come out, in-cluding Sacrifice with CubaGooding, Jr., and A LittleHelp opposite Jenna Fisch-er (The Office). He was atthe Toronto InternationalFilm Festival last month topromote the rowdy hockeymovie Goon (co-written byJay Baruchel). SeannWilliam Scott, Alison Pilland Eugene Levy also have

roles in the film, whichwill be released next year.

When not working,Coates feels at home on hisHarley, a custom-builtWide Glide. “Got to kind ofdesign it myself from EagleNest Harley in Sacramen-to,” says Coates, one of onlytwo SOA cast memberswith biker cred heading in-to the series.

Despite his onscreen im-age — often as the creepnext door — in over 40films, Coates is a pussycathimself, a dedicated familyman married for 26 yearswith two grown daughters.

As for the Shakespearemetaphor, Coates is equally

at home around Hamlet ashe is on a Harley. Hestarred as Macbeth at Strat-ford when he was just 27(singling out director TomKerr as “my mentor”) andenjoyed a run on Broadwayas Stanley Kowalski in AStreetcar Named Desire.

His love of theatre beganat the University ofSaskatchewan where hetook a drama class “just forfun.”

He wound up doing playafter play over four years,“an amazing learningground for me.”

He gets the Hamletthing on SOA and creditsseries creator Kurt Sutter

with turning this outlawbiker crew into compellingtelevision. “Kurt’s an amaz-ing storyteller,” saysCoates.

There was one timewhen Coates felt Suttermade a wrong turn on theseries. Without spoilingwhat happens in SeasonTwo, there is a momentwhen Tig (Coates) gets cozywith Gemma (Katey Sagal),the wife of the club presi-dent, Clay (Perlman).Coates read the script,could not believe Tig wouldever sneak around on Clayand demanded to see Sut-ter.

“Take a breath,” Suttertold Coates, explaining thatthis is, after all, a tale ofbiker outlaws, a world ofdrugs, sex and rock ’n’ roll.Gemma is lost and lonelyand comes on to Tig. Tig islost and lonely and re-sponds. “You’re not doing itout of anything with Clay,”explained Sutter. “It’s just amoment of two verywounded people comingtogether for some love, forsomething.”

“All I know is that thingsare happening this year,”says Coates. “Stuff is goingdown.”THE CANADIAN PRESS

Bikers and the BardKim Coates might look the part of a gritty gang member, but The Sons of Anarchy actor

loves Hamlet as much as his Harley Reveals what to expect on the second season of SOA HANDOUT

“All I know is thatthings arehappening thisyear. Stuff is goingdown”KIM COATES ON THE UPCOMINGSEASON OF SONS OF ANARCHY

Saskatchewan native Kim Coates has been busy lately with roles in Sons of Anarchy,

the recently-ended HBO series Entourage and five different films.

The Shrek spinoffPuss in Bootsopened with an esti-mated $34 million totop the box office.The film proved abig draw outside ofthe Shrek franchise.Paranormal Activitycame in the numbertwo spot over theweekend. That filmtook in $18.5 millionin its second week ofrelease. The Rum Di-ary, starring JohnnyDepp, opened weak-ly, earning just $5million.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Time for Avril to Let Go?Avril Lavigne experiencing dwindling Canadian crowds, sales

Midway through a sparselyattended arena gig inToronto last week, AvrilLavigne paused betweensongs to express her joy atplaying “so close to home,”in her “beautiful” nativecountry.

She had just finishedsinging Alice, and it was thefirst time in the eveningshe unleashed the full pow-er of her vocal instrument,allowing her voice to billowand soar into every cornerof the Air Canada Centre.

And it couldn’t havebeen easy to fill all thatempty space.

See, it’s not just theCanadian weather thatmight have felt chilly toLavigne, who grew up inNapanee, Ont., but movedto Los Angeles years ago. Tohear her tell it, this cross-country trek was a tri-umphant homecoming, thefirst since her latest albumdropped in March, sowhere were the adoringcrowds to cheer her on?

A reported audience of6,800 fans showed up toher gig at the Air CanadaCentre, which can hold15,800 fans for a concert.Her shows across the coun-try reported similarly ane-mic turnouts, while thereviews varied from tepidto scathing — a representa-tive notice from one news-paper compared her lifeless

performance to that of azombie.

And considering thatLavigne’s latest — GoodbyeLullaby — has failed to gen-erate a fraction of the inter-est as her previous disc,there’s no shortage of spec-ulation that the pop-punkprincess’s reign could becoming to an end.

“She’s having a difficulttime making the transitionfrom being a skater girl tobeing a 27-year-oldwoman,” said Alan Cross,Metro Canada columnistand host of the syndicated

radio show The Secret His-tory of Rock. “It’s verytough to grow with youraudience. ... The next yearis going to be very impor-tant if she’s going to be ableto make the transition.

“I mean, she’s far fromdead. But it may take a littletime for the new Avril totake root.”

And at this point, it’s notexactly clear who the newAvril is.

She burst onto the sceneless than a decade ago with2002’s hit-laden Let Go, pro-viding a so-called edgy al-

ternative to the dolled-uppop strumpets who wereshifting the bar of goodtaste ever-lower and climb-ing ever-higher on thecharts in the process (Lavi-gne’s first album arrived inthe one-year period be-tween two video hallmarksfor lowest-common-denominator pop pander-ing: Britney Spears’ I’m aSlave 4 U and ChristinaAguilera’s Dirrty.)

A then-17-year-old Lavi-gne had a stylistic hook(ties and tank-tops), astrong voice and a bundleof super-catchy pop tunesstained by just a speck ofpunk grime — Ramona im-itating the Ramones.

After Let Go, Avril’s nexttwo albums — 2004’s Un-der My Skin and 2007’s TheBest Damn Thing —brought diminishing re-turns commercially but stillwent platinum a combinedseven times over in Canada.

And that, perhaps, iswhen Lavigne’s career start-ed to slide. There was alengthy four-year break be-tween albums, duringwhich time Lavigne di-vorced husband (and Sum41 frontman) Deryck Whib-ley and changed her man-agement, switching fromVancouver-based Nettwerkto a representation basedcloser to home in L.A.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Avril Lavigne arrives on the red carpet during the 2011

MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto in June.

CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Lou Reed on an albumwith Metallica: Youbetter believe it

Metallica members James Hetfield, left, and Lars Ulrich,

right, pose with musician Lou Reed.

JOHN CARUCCI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Metallica and the word“scared” don’t usually go to-gether.

But fear was one of theemotions that band mem-bers felt when they beganwork on their latest album,Lulu, a collaboration withLou Reed that will be re-leased tomorrow.

“That was scary, but itwas also so exciting tothink, ‘Is he going to tell uswhat to play? Are we goingto know what to play? Is hegoing to start singing ran-domly? Should we figureout some parts?’” leadsinger James Hetfield saidin an interview. “We havehad many different ways ofrecording, and this is yetanother new way for us.”

Reed and Metallica, bothmembers of the Rock andRoll Hall of Fame, first per-formed together at thehall’s 25th-anniversary con-certs in 2009. They found

that they had amazingchemistry together.

That chemistry prompt-ed them to go into the stu-dio together, but theconcept for the album start-ed as a work that was thebrainchild of Reed, basedon the Lulu plays (EarthSpirit and Pandora’s Box)written by FrankWedekind.

“This was the templatefrom God,” Reed explainedin an interview last weekwith Hetfield and Lars Ul-rich.

“It was written for a playin Berlin, for the Berlin En-semble Theatre. It was donethere as a soundscape sur-rounded by various elec-tronics. I lifted the wholething, since it is mine, andbrought it over to them andturned them loose on it sothat on top of the electron-ics, (it) became Metallica.”THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Dave Bidini is the author of Writing Gordon Lightfoot.

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Protecting Lightfoot’s legacy?Rocker Dave Bidini writes book about Gordon Lightfoot without his involvement

As soon as Dave Bidini putthe word out that he waswriting a book about Gor-don Lightfoot, the storiesstarted to pour in.

Bidini, the former Rheo-statics singer, has plenty offriends in rock ’n’ roll, andthey had plenty of tangledyarns to spin about the 72-year-old Canuck singer forWriting Gordon Lightfoot.

Some were flattering, butmost were definitely not.

“People would be like: ‘Ihave a great Lightfoot sto-ry,’ and it would inevitablyturn out to be a horribleLightfoot story,” Bidinisaid in an interview lastweek at a Toronto café.

“There’s a book thatcould come out for surethat would just be aboutthat, just be about him be-ing a mean drunk and a badhusband ... But if you puttoo many episodes in abook like that, that’s allpeople are going to takeaway from it, and I wantedpeople to come away with afuller impression of who

the person was, about thislife lived in Canadian music.

“And actually one of thethings I say in the book is Isort of approach Gord and Isay: ‘I hope you’re gratefulthat it’s me writing thebook and not some muck-rak-

ing journalist.’”That Bidini want-

ed to protect Lightfoot’slegacy — or at least his dig-nity — might imply somesort of friendly relationshipbetween the two Canadianrockers.

But in fact, Bidini saysthat Lightfoot refused to beinterviewed for the bookdespite his persistent re-quests.

In the text, Bidini offers acouple of theories for Light-foot’s non-participation.Years ago, the Rheostaticscovered The Wreck of theEdmund Fitzgerald, and Bi-dini and his bandmatesthought the Orillia, Ont.,

country-folk leg-

end might have liked theirversion.

So they directed it toLightfoot’s manager at thetime, Barry Harvey, who hassince died. Bidini remem-bers Harvey telling himthat he wouldn’t give thesong to Lightfoot be-cause it would just an-noy the singer. Thegroup was disappoint-ed, and some time lat-er, Bidini slightedLightfoot in an inter-view, suggestingthat the Canuckicon had swipedthe melody forFitzgerald froman old Irish folktune (Bidini him-self heard thisrumour at a pubin Cork, Ireland).Harvey asked fora retraction andBidini agreed,but says thatonce the com-ments hadhit theIn-

ternet, it was too late.So, the two artists

weren’t exactlyfriends. Still, Bidinibelieves the pri-mary reason Light-foot didn’t want toparticipate in thebook is that thesongwriting stalwart simplyhas no interest in revisitingthe still-tender wounds ofhis past.

And Writing GordonLightfoot does zero in on aparticu-

larly difficult period in hiscareer. The book is struc-

tured around theevents of one week

in July 1972,when some ofthe biggestnames in music— including BobDylan, Neil Young,

Joni Mitchell and, yes,Lightfoot — descended ontiny Toronto Island to makesurprise appearances at theMariposa Folk Festival.

At the time, the booksays, Lightfoot had beenforced to curtail his

touring scheduledue to Bell’spalsy, whichhad tem-porarilyleft

his face partially paralyzed,his first marriage was crum-bling (he would divorce in’73), and he was datingCathy Smith — the samewoman who would laterserve time in a Californiaprison for injecting actorJohn Belushi with a fataldose of heroin and cocaine

in 1982. THE CANADIAN

PRESS

“I wanted peopleto come away witha fuller impressionof who the personwas.”AUTHOR DAVE BIDINI

PURELY PRISTINE

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Superstar author Jeffrey Eu-genides is getting weary ofquestions about whetherhis new book, The MarriagePlot, is autobiographical.

“It’s incredibly fatiguing.It happens with every nov-

el, no matter whatyou write about,”the 51-year-oldsaid during aninterview thisweek.

Eugenidesburst

ontothe

scene in 1993 with his ac-claimed debut The VirginSuicides, which was latermade into a much-dis-cussed film by Sofia Cop-pola. His next novel,2002’s Middlesex, vault-ed him into the liter-ary stratosphere. Astunningly imagina-tive and expansive taleabout a male hermaph-rodite, the book wonthe Pulitzer Prize, waschosen as an Oprah selec-tion and had legions ofreaders clamouring to seewhat the rock-star writer

would do next.They

had to

wait nine years to find out,but were rewarded this

month with Eu-genides’ lat-

estnovel,TheMar-

riagePlot, which fol-

lows a love triangle be-tween English majorMadeleine and two fellowmale students at Brown

University (the au-thor’s alma

mater) inthe early1980s.

In thebelea-

guered world of publishing,the book’s release was a joy-ous event. A billboard of Eu-genides went up in TimesSquare. A launch party inNew York City attracted lit-erary heavyweightsJonathan Franzen, MartinAmis and Zadie Smith.

The Marriage Plot wassoon lauded as anotherhighly erudite, yet emi-

nently readable of-fering from

Eugenides.Still,much ofthe me-dia cov-eragehas beenpre-occu-pied

with

whether it is autobiographi-cal.

Did Eugenides base thecharacter of Mitchell Gram-maticus on himself (bothare from Detroit and ofGreek descent)? Does theBrown setting reflect theauthor’s time at the school?And is the character ofmanic-depressive biologistLeonard Bankhead basedon the late author David

Foster Wallace (withwhom Eugenides had apassing acquaintance)?

Eugenides, an in-structor at PrincetonUniversity, can’t seemto escape the specula-

tion.“Last time I wrote

about someone who wasintersex and I would stillget the autobiographicalquestion even though it’sobviously about as imagina-tive a leap as I can make,”said the author, who livesin New Jersey

with his wife and daughter.“Now, I’m getting it

again. You get it with every-thing you write. That’s howpeople read. We all do it toa certain extent.

“But people need to un-derstand that you obviouslydraw from your life in orderto write a novel, so thereare going to be many thingsthat resemble the writer’sexperience. But what hap-pens in a novel is very dif-ferent than what happensin a writer’s life.”THE CANADIAN PRESS

Eugenides tired of the autobiographical questions

Author Jeffrey Eugenides poses at his home

in Princeton, N.J., in September.

MEL EVANS/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Hurry up and write

During his media rounds,Eugenides has also facedrepeated questions aboutthe extended period oftime it takes him to writeeach book.The author says he canusually tell after about 150pages whether he wants tomove forward with a newproject.

The kernel of TheMarriage Plot, he said,came about when he wastaking a break from Mid-dlesex in the late 1990sand began writing a storyabout a débutante party.He abandoned that manu-script, but the character ofMadeleine stuck with him,eventually jumping intothe pages that would be-come The Marriage Plot.

In honour ofHalloween,let’s check inwith vampire-in-chief RobertPattinson, shallwe?

While promoting Break-ing Dawn: Part 1 at a pressconference over the week-end, Pattinson speculatedthat he and costar/girlfriendKristen Stewart may al-ready be married. “Thewedding scene’s funny be-cause we used a real priest,”the actor said, according toUsMagazine.com.

“So technically we are al-ready married because hedid all the things you woulddo in a normal ceremony.So we don’t have a civil

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Kelly Clarkson is settingthe record straight aboutbeing straight.

Despite speculationrunning rampant foryears, the singer wants toclarify that she is not a les-bian.

“I’m from a small town,so everyone’s married

with children or about tohave children,” she saysduring a visit to The View.

“That’s why peoplethink I’m gay — becausethey’re like, ‘why aren’tyou married?’ And I’mlike, ‘It doesn’t happen foreveryone right off thebat!’”

Plus, she says shehasn’t had the easiesttime finding the right guy.

“I’ve dated some coolguys, but I don’t know ifI’ve dated someone whereI could spend my wholelife with them,” Clarksonsays.

“The last date I went onwas horrible, so I’d like to

go on a good date.”METRO

I’m notgay: Kelly

Singer opens up about her sexual orientation on talkshow Says she hasn’t been able to find Mr. Right

Kelly Clarkson

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JT plans to lay lowJustin Timberlake mightbe avoiding the spotlightfor a little while, hewarns.

“I’ve spent a lot of timefeeling like I needed tovalidate so much of who Iwas by what I did,” hetells Esquire magazine.

“I think you can workand work and work andnever really live.”

So what is Timberlake

planning to do instead? “The plan is to have no

plan,” he says. “I’ll probably travel, but

I’d rather be spontaneous.I feel like I’ve earned atleast a little bit of time todo that.”

METRO

THE WORDDOROTHY ROBINSONSCENE@METRONEWS.CA

Robert Pattinson and

Kristen Stewart

PATTINSON AMARRIED MAN?

“I’ve dated somecool guys, but Idon’t know if I’vedated someonewhere I couldspend my wholelife with them.”KELLY CLARKSON

union in law, but I guess inthe church we are actuallymarried.”

We suspect the churchwouldn’t agree, but thenagain, it’s not really our go-to marriage dictionary

these days. If someone united Heidi

Montag and Spencer Prattin holy-hell matrimony, nodoubt they’d sign off on thisone. TODAY’S THE WORD WAS WRIT-TEN BY MONICA WEYMOUTH

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A British Columbia-based dietitian hashelpful hints about thechocolate choices par-ents will have to makethis Halloween.

Gloria Tsang says allparents need to do islook at the list ofingredients on mass-produced chocolatebars. Tsang says if par-ents don’t know howto pronounce thename of an ingredient,that product might notbe the best choice.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Will Halloween play a trick onyour kids’ health? Dental hygiene is key concern.

Sweet choices

Offer apples to trick-or-treaters and risk havingyour house get egged —maybe even by your ownkids.

But dentists and dieti-tians say you can stillmake Halloween reason-ably healthy for little dev-ils and witches withoutresorting to dracul-oniantactics, like no candy.

“This is such a big ad-venture for them — letthem have it, obviouslywith some caveats,” saidDr. Rhea Haugseth, a den-tist in Marietta, Ga., who’spresident of the AmericanAcademy of Pediatric Den-tistry.

Haugseth also suggestsavoiding cavity-promotingtreats like caramels thatstick to the teeth, or lol-lipops that bathe teeth in along sugary bath.

Also, having kids brushtheir teeth before trick-or-treating to helps reduceplaque and bacteria, whichinteract with sugar to pro-duce tooth-decaying acid,Haugseth said. Kids shouldalso brush right after eat-ing candy, she said.

Just don’t go overboardon restrictions, says ColeRobbins, a Chicago 12-year-old and Halloweenveteran. “Halloween is theone day of the year where

we kids just kind of breakout and overload on can-dy,” he said.

To help prevent thatkind of gorging, try to givechildren a healthy, fillingmeal before trick-or-treating, says BethanyThayer, a spokeswomanfor the American DieteticAssociation who works atthe Henry Ford Health Sys-tem in Detroit.

Ronni Litz Julien, a Mia-mi nutritionist whose pa-tients include overweightand obese kids, says anoth-er trick for parents is tohelp sort through the loot,have kids select their 10favourite pieces, and give

the rest away. Offer thechoice of eating all 10pieces at once, or over 10days. That gives them asense of control, withoutfeeling shortchanged, shesaid.

“You can’t deprivethem. It’s Halloween, forGod’s sake,” she said.

President Barack Oba-ma joked last week on TheTonight Show that he’dwarned his health-promot-ing wife that the WhiteHouse would get egged ifshe gave trick-or-treatersfresh fruit and raisins in-stead of candy.

Dr. Janet Silverstein, aGainesville, Fla. pediatri-

cian and member of theAmerican Academy of Pe-diatrics’ nutrition commit-tee, says she doesn’t giveout candy, offering fruit orpencils instead; so far herhouse is unscathed.

When her own childrenwere young, Silversteinwould buy their candy fora nickel a piece. She rec-ommends that to her pa-tients’ parents, too.Though she doesn’t offerher other solution — sheused to eat her kids’ candy.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Keep it sweet but healthyCandy isn’t the only thing kids can accumulate during Halloween Cavities and extra

pounds from all the candy are also common Try these tricks for preventing health issues

Parent tricks

Try these tips for keeping

Halloween fun without

cavities or extra pounds.

Dark chocolate

Start by handing out darkchocolate instead of chewycandies. The chewy varietyis likely to get stuck inteeth and stay there. Somestudies have suggesteddark chocolate is good forthe heart.Toys

Try bribing your kids with anew toy in exchange forthe Halloween loot — or atleast some of it.Wait

Ask your kids not to dip in-to their loot bags untilthey bring the entire stashhome. This trick ensuresboth safety so you can tossany suspicious-lookingcandy, but it also preventsan “eating frenzy” — andthe stomach aches.

Dentists and dieticians say you can make Halloween reasonably healthy for kids without resorting to tactics like no candy.

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ing spray; set aside. In amicrowave-safe dish,combine cherries andjuice. Microwave onhigh until bubbling, 1minute. Cool.

2 In bowl of electric mix-er, cream butter andsugar until fluffy. Addeggs, one at a time,scraping bowl betweenadditions. Stir in vanilla.

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Ingredients:• 500 ml (2 cups) dried cher-ries• 125 ml (1/2 cup) apple ororange juice• 175 ml (3/4 cup or 1 1/2sticks) unsalted butter• 550 ml (2 1/4 cups)packed brown sugar• 3 eggs• 5 ml (1 tsp) vanilla extract• 550 ml (2 1/4 cups) flour

• 7 ml (1 1/2 tsp) salt• 16 chocolate sandwichcookies, broken into pieces• 340 g (12 oz) chocolate • 2 graham crackers, broken• 125 ml (1/2 cup) minimarshmallows• 125 ml (1/2 cup) brokenpretzel sticks• Handful gummy worms • 2 green fruit roll-ups, torn

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Add flour and salt andmix until combined.Drain reserved cherries;add them and half bro-ken chocolate cookies.

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Deck the halls with dropouts?As tens of thousands ofCanadian university stu-dents hit the books for mid-term exams, schools arelooking ahead to keepthose who tank from drop-ping out.

All it takes is a few badgrades to crush some stu-dents — particularly fresh-men — and derail theiruniversity education, someexperts say.

“Once people do badly,they don't want to be inschool anymore,” said ToddStinebrickner, a professorat the University of West-ern Ontario who has stud-ied the reasons universitystudents choose to pack itall in.

“When people do badly... school is not very enjoy-able, maybe it's more stress-ful.”

His research suggestsabout 40 per cent of stu-dents who drop out of uni-versity do so becausethey're not performing aswell as they expected.

That's largely because

they're not prepared for theheavier workload and inde-pendent study time, hesaid.

“That sort of says, well,things have to be a little bitdifferent at earlier stages (ofeducation),” he says.“Whether it's more effort inhigh school or whether it'schanges in the quality ofschools at earlier ages,that's sort of an open ques-tion.”

Most students stick it outpast the first year — in On-tario, the province with themost universities, retentionrates remain between 80and 90 per cent for the ma-jority of schools.

But educators aren't tak-ing any chances.

Many have an arsenal ofprograms aimed at so-called “Christmas gradu-ates,” those who simplydrop off the roster after

winter break, as well as stu-dents who fall through thecracks in later years, saidRichard Wiggers, directorof research on student serv-ices for the Higher Educa-tion Quality Council ofOntario.

Some reach out to stu-dents and their families be-fore the fall semester startsin an effort to ease the tran-sition from high school.

Others hold University

101 courses that showfreshmen how to handlestress and manage theirtime.

At the University of Ot-tawa, administrators stageinterventions for first-yearstudents whose mid-termmarks fall below par in keycourses, said Murray Sang,who heads the Student Aca-demic Success Service.

“They do a triage to findout what's going on, why isthis student at risk,” Sangsaid. Faculty advisors thensteer students towards sup-port programs, be it peertutoring, counselling or fi-nancial aid, he said.

It's crucial to step in be-fore students flunk anyclasses, Sang said.

After that, “it's a biggerhole to dig out of,” he said.“It's difficult to keep a stu-dent motivated, it's difficultto climb back up.”

The reasons for calling itquits can range from home-sickness to depression andlearning disabilities tomoney troubles.THE CANADIAN PRESS

Universities are stepping in to keep ‘Christmas graduates’ from bailing on the books

Thinking of throwing in the towel? It’s likely that there are resources at

your school that can help you weigh your options before making the final decision.

“Once people dobadly, they don’twant to be inschool anymore...That sort of sayswell, things have tobe a little bitdifferent at earlierstages (ofeducation).”TODD STINEBRICKNERPROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OFWESTERN ONTARIO

Don’t fret

Dropping out doesn’t al-

ways stain school

transcripts.

Each university sets adeadline for students look-ing to abandon classeswithout penalty, Sang said.Those who bail earlyenough may even get theirtuition refunded.But wait too late and it'sthe same as failing, hesaid.

Canada’s studentshave voted

Western topskey categories in university pollMore than 33,000 universi-ty students across Canadahave voted on their institu-tions of higher learning,and the rankings are in.

Among the large univer-sities, the University ofWestern Ontario in London,Ont., has come out on topin a couple of key cate-gories - quality of teachingand learning, and the mostsatisfied students, accord-ing to the Globe and Mail'sCanadian University Report2012.

The University of Water-loo scored highest for ca-reer preparation among thelarge schools, while tyingfor first place with Montre-al's McGill University in itsreputation with employers.

And if smaller is betterwhen it comes to class size,the large universities withthe top marks are CarletonUniversity in Ottawa andConcordia University inMontreal.

Medium universities arethose with enrolments of10,000 to 22,000 students.

In that category, Queen'sUniversity in Kingston,Ont., was the top school formost satisfied students andreputation with employers,and it tied with Universitede Sherbrooke in careerpreparation.

Mount Royal Universityin Calgary scored highestamong medium schools forquality of teaching andlearning, as well as classsize.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Crying Over roadblocks is not his wayFormer Platinum Blonde rocker Sergio Galli has overcome life’s hurdles with a Doesn’t Really Matter attitude

He’s an inter-national rockstar, designer,architect andbuilder. Withso much suc-cess, youwould expect

Sergio Galli would wear hisaccomplishments like abadge of honour. But hedoesn’t. Sergio is a down toearth, humble man with a

simple message for us all:accept life’s turning points

and when things get tough,move on.

“I get over discourage-ment in life because I knowit’s temporary. Some peoplethink it’s forever. I say,‘Why waste your time? Getover it’.”

Sergio was 18 when hestarted his own businessbuilding and renting P.A.systems for bands.

He ran into MarkHolmes who was looking toput together a new band.Sergio played guitar, Markfound a drummer and with-in six months Galli and theband hit it big. PlatinumBlonde went on to becomeone of the top glam-bandsof the ’80s.

Hits like Crying Over Youand Situation Critical rock-eted to the top of thecharts.

As Galli and the boyswould roll through thegreat cities of Europe, hewould make the limo driv-ers stop in front of unique

buildings that caught his at-tention.

“I was so into architec-ture. They used to rib mebut they thought it wasneat someone could be into

something other than mu-sic.”

Seven years passed andthe band realized they wereburnt out and needed abreak. Galli wanted to goback to school but wasturned down at every Uni-versity he applied to. Sergio“got over it”, bought a cou-ple of properties and beganbuilding. His work becamenoticed in the industry andsoon he was building multi-million dollar homes. Nowhe has teamed with TheSerena Group to build af-fordable, luxurious villas.Galli is living life on histerms.

Platinum Blonde recent-ly got back together and de-cided 20 years was enoughof a break. Sergio and Plat-inum Blonde are currentlyin the recording studio andare hoping to start touringagain next summer.

“You have to enjoy thejourney along the way.Nothing happensovernight. Remember tohave fun and if you do thensuccess will come.”

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Success Enjoy the journeyand don’t think about themoney or the outcome.Idea Come up with a planand follow through with it.Attitude Be positive andmove on fromdisappointments.Execution Just get out anddo it. Be positive.Fun Enjoy yourself. If youdo, success and money willcome.

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History of Platinum Blonde

Formed in 1983 Mark Holmes (vocals), Sergio Galli (guitar),Chris Steffler (drums), Kenny MacLean (bass) (1956-2008)Standing in the Dark (1984) Triple PlatinumSingles: Doesn’t Really MatterAlien Shores (1985) Quintuple PlatinumSingles: Situation Critical, Crying Over You, Somebody SomewhereContact (1987) Double PlatinumInducted into the Music and Broadcast Industry Hall of Fameon March 12, 2010. SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA

These days Sergio is a

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Sergio Galli circa 1984 performing with Platinum Blonde.

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Antonio Brown of the Pittsburgh Steelers dives into the end zone to score a touchdown against the New England Patriots.

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The Pittsburgh Steelersfound a way to beat TomBrady: Don’t let him get theball.

Ben Roethlisbergerpassed for 365 yards andtwo touchdowns and theSteelers finally solved theirBrady problem with an em-phatic 25-17 victory overNew England yesterday.

Roethlisberger complet-ed 36 of 50 passes and ledthe Steelers (6-2) on a seriesof clock-chewing drives, ef-fectively keeping Brady andthe NFL’s top-ranked of-fence off the field. Pitts-burgh held the ball formore than 39 minutes andsurvived a late rally to winits fourth straight followinga 2-2 start.

Brady passed for two

touchdowns but threw for aseason-low 198 yards andcouldn’t get into any sort ofrhythm while losing to theSteelers for just the secondtime in his career.

The Patriots (5-2) drewwithin six when Brady hitAaron Hernandez for a one-

yard touchdown pass with2:35 remaining, but a last-gasp drive ended whenBrady was sacked and theball rolled out of the endzone for a safety with eightseconds to play.

It may be October, butthe game had a Januaryfeel, and it wasn’t just thechilly conditions.

The defending AFCchampions pointed to thematchup as a litmus test af-ter a sluggish — by the fran-chise’s lofty standards —start. Were they the “old,slow” bunch that lookedovermatched in losses toBaltimore and Houston orwere they simply takingtheir time getting started?

The answer, it appears, isthe latter, even if the Steel-

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Rather than pound awaywith running back RashardMendenhall, Roethlisberg-er — who never met a deepball he didn’t like to throw— did his best Brady imita-tion, moving the chainswith a controlled passingattack that took yardage insmall bits.

The Steelers didn’t com-plete a pass over 26 yards.They didn’t have to. Roeth-lisberger consistently foundAntonio Brown (a career-high nine receptions),Heath Miller (a season-highseven grabs) and speedsterMike Wallace (seven catch-es) on short and intermedi-ate routes.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Fitzpatrickleads Billsto victoryin Toronto

Ryan Fitzpatrick showedyesterday why the BuffaloBills felt he was worth $59million US.

Fitzpatrick threw twoTD strikes to ScottChandler as Buffalo beatthe Washington Redskins23-0 for its first regular-sea-son win of the Bills TorontoSeries.

The resurgent Bills (5-2)improved to 3-3 in Torontobut are just 1-3 in regular-season contests.

Buffalo hasn’t made theNFL playoffs since 1999 butlast week signedFitzpatrick to a $59-million,six-year contract extension.The deal includes $24 mil-lion guaranteed and makesFitzpatrick the highest-paidplayer in club history.

Not bad for a Harvardgrad who spent his firstfour NFL seasons with St.Louis and Cincinnati beforelanding in Buffalo in 2009.Fitzpatrick, 28, hasflourished with the Bills,going 9-5 in his last 14games.

Yesterday’s contest wasthe sixth of eight Buffalowill play in Torontothrough next season as partof the series. Theattendance was 51,579,meaning none of thegames have been a selloutat Rogers Centre, whichseats 54,000 for football.

For the first time in theseries fans were vocally proBills, actually giving Buffalothe feel of home-fieldadvantage. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Playoff race red hot as CFL enters its final weekA Calgary Stampeders winthat came down to the finalseconds over the defendingGrey Cup champion Mon-treal Alouettes has set up awild final week of CFL playin both the East and Westdivisions.

Drew Tate passed for 330yards and a pair of touch-downs to Johnny Forzani in

a 32-27 victory over theAlouettes yesterday after-noon. The win made Tate 2-0 since he replaced 2010CFL Outstanding PlayerHenry Burris as the startingquarterback.

The result left five of theeight teams with identical10-7 records going into thelast weekend of regular-sea-

son play, with Calgary in atie with B.C. and Edmontonin the West and Montrealdeadlocked with Winnipegin the East.

“It was a huge win be-cause we’re still in thechase,” said Tate. “You playfive months and it allcomes down to this one lastgame, but this is the posi-

tion we want to be in.“We’re in a one-week

season now. We’re focusedon who we have to playnow.”

The Stampeders, whoclose the season Saturdayat home against Winnipeg,must win and have boththe Lions and Eskimos losetheir games to claim first

place and the bye into theWest final because theyhave lost the season seriesto both rivals.

Montreal needs to winin B.C. on Saturday nightand have the Blue Bomberslose to get top spot in theEast for a fourth straightyear.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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