Trying To Take Control Of Your Dreams

“‘Am I awake or am I dreaming?’ I ask myself for probably the hundredth time. I am fully awake, just like all the other times I asked, and to be honest I am beginning to feel a bit silly. All week I have been performing this ‘reality check’ in the hope that it will become so ingrained in my mind that I will start asking it in my dreams too.”

Toronto Film Fest Nears 90% Of Fundraising Goal For New Theatre

The Toronto International Film Festival “announced a $9.5 million [Cdn] boost through several gifts, bringing the total to $171 million [Cdn]. That’s still $25 million short of its $196 million campaign goal, but the way TIFF does the math, it has now raised 90 per cent of the money required for the building itself. The raising of extra money needed to complete its operating and endowment needs will be dealt with after the building opens.”

The Tobacco Police Go After Winston Churchill’s Cigar

“In the well-known original image, Churchill makes a ‘V’ shaped symbol with his fingers – while gripping a cigar in the corner of his mouth. But in a reproduction of the picture, hanging over the main entrance to a London museum celebrating the wartime leader, he has been made into a non-smoker through the use of image-altering techniques.”

On The Offensive Against A (Nonexistent?) Ticketing Scam

A new campaign cautions “West End theatregoers to watch out for online ticketing scams.” But do such scams exist? “There just isn’t the demand. As a fraudster, there’s very little point in selling fake theatre tickets on the web because you can’t sell them quickly at high enough prices, or in enough bulk, to turn a quick profit and disappear.”