First to sports news: Some Vancouver Canuck fans, heavily in denial, are still displaying signs reading "Go Canucks Go!" My next door neighbor has, more realistically, altered his sign to read "Gone Canucks Gone."
And, on to the music scene: Our entertainment reporter, D.J. Flick, has found a grocery store playing a background music tape that seems to have been recorded in the late 1960s. If you have been eager to hear once again Bobby Darin singing "Beyond the Sea" this is the store for you. A continuing favorite of the patrons, D.J. reports, is "I Write the Songs That Make the Whole World Sing," a song we are unable to hear without being plunged back to a Gastown restaurant where this Barry Manilow number was repeated incessantly throughout the evening, as the proprietor kept sending to our table bottles of Bouchard Aine et Fils Chablis. The restaurant was either Le Coq au Vin or Le Coq d'Or, and considering the amount of Chablis consumed, it's surprising we remember even that.
Finally, we respond to one of the thousands of letters we receive each day. A Mr. M. Ahmadinejad of Tehran writes: "Is the new Disney film, 'Prince of Persia' starring Jake Gyllenhaal, a biopic of my career? Forgetting that Persia is now Iran?" We must regretfully inform Mr. Ahmadinejad that the film is set some centuries prior to his appearance on the scene. "Just as well," he replies. "The female persons in the film are insufficiently clothed and to play me, Mr. Jake Gyllenhaal is insufficiently handsome."
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