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05/07/2003 Archived Entry: "Lifetime Movie Title Generator"

The Lifetime Movie Title Generator skewers the movie channel Lifetime's daily and incessant diet of movies about women being beaten, raped, stalked, kidnapped, dying of terminal diseases etc. Create a movie by chosing whether your heroine is a housewife/nurse/student etc. who is raped/battered/murdered/ etc. by her husband/father/employer/etc... Hilarious.

The Canadian dollar has been climbing steadily over the past few weeks, rising from the low .60 cent-range (against the America $) to break through the .70 cent barrier. Globally, people are dumping American $s and buying Euros or Canadian ones. There are several reasons for the rise in the value of Canada's currency. Unlike the States, there is no widespread inflation and the interest rates remain both stable and comparatively high. (BTW, the higher interest rates have not had a dampening effect on industries such as housing and construction, which are booming.) There is no federal deficit. The provinces are close to deficit-free. In a sense, I am sorry to see the increasing value of Canada's currency because it will hurt tourism and dissuade US businesses from setting up shop here. The movie/TV industry, for example, routinely shoots in Toronto whenever they want to capture a city that is New Yorkish without having to pay New York prices. Well...despite the SARS scare, Toronto just got more expensive to shoot.

Best to all,
mac