Anthony Reinhart Published on Tuesday, Mar. 30, 2010 5:46PM EDT
he testimony of a gunman who has admitted to killing an innocent bystander during a dispute with bouncers outside a Toronto strip club will be read back to jurors weighing the young man’s fate and that of his best friend.
The nine-man, three-woman jury is particularly interested in what Edward Paredes, 24, told court about the moment he raised and fired his semi-automatic handgun on the Yonge Street sidewalk, near the Brass Rail tavern, in the early hours of Jan. 12, 2008. Now in their second day of deliberations, the jurors sent a note to Madam Justice Mary Lou Benotto asking to hear the testimony again, along with that of an off-duty police officer who testified to seeing Mr. Paredes take out his gun and “rack” it to load it.
Toronto Strip Clubs: Brass Rail jurors ask for the shooter’s testimony to be read back
March 30th, 2010 · No Comments
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Toronto Adult Entertainment: SCREEN SCENE: EGOYAN’S ‘CHLOE’ A MUDDLED MESS; AUDIARD’S ‘A PROPHET’ TREMENDOUS
March 30th, 2010 · No Comments
His newest work is “Chloe,” a muddy effort in which a successful female doctor starts to obsess that her husband, David, a university professor, is having an affair with one of his students. They live in an ultra-modern house in a quiet corner of upscale Toronto. It all takes place at the raw end of winter, when March still has cruel ideas and dirty snow is piled up on the sidewalks. Catherine and David have a sullen son named Michael, who is some sort of piano prodigy. He also plays ice hockey, this being Canada and all.
Catherine, acted with her usual excellence by Julianne Moore, hires a hooker to tempt her possibly cheating spouse, stoically and blandly played by Liam Neeson. But Egoyan and his screenwriter, Erin Cressida Wilson, have something in mind other than the collapse of a marriage. They are interested in cheap thrills. Thus Catherine becomes less concerned about what hubby’s doing and more concerned about getting inside a prostitute’s thou …