Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for March 2020: MUSIC The Montreal concert scene heats up again with American folk-rock band The Lumineers at the Bell Centre (March 6); Italian superstar Eros Ramazzotti at Place Bell on March 9; the Subtronics (March 14) and Keane (March 24) at MTELUS; Dweezil Zappa (March 18) and Matthew […]
Tag: James Bond
Charlton Heston: Hollywood’s Last Icon by Marc Eliot (Dey Street Books, $36.99)
“He still wanted to work, not only for the money – he had, by now, made plenty of that – and not for prestige – he had more than most in Hollywood ever get and was still greeted with shouts of “Moses” by fans wherever he traveled all over the world. He simply loved acting […]
Bond is back
Joseph Rossi for Curtains Up I am not a James Bond fanatic. I never cared for most of the films. I’ll made a case for the Sean Connery ones and for some reason think Timothy Dalton was a great James Bond but no, I am not a 007 fan. But that is until I […]
The $11 Billion Year by Anne Thompson (Newmarket Press, $33.50)
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “You taste bottom in this business. When you fail, you pick yourself up and get yourself back, whether with one movie or two. It’s not over, just keep going.” -Harvey Weinstein Growing up the movies were one of the few things my father, mother, brother and I did […]
James Bond, The Spy I Loved by Christopher Wood (Twenty First Century Publishers)
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “…the art of making a Bond movie is to do exactly the same thing – only do it differently.” -Christopher Wood Recently a cable movie channel ran a month-long James Bond celebration. I enjoyed watching the early classics like Dr. No, Goldfinger, and my personal favorite, From Russia […]


