By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor
November 4, 2009

We all know the story, whether from reading the classic Charles Dickens novel or from watching Mickey’s Christmas Carol with Scrooge McDuck. A Christmas Carol has been told and re-told for years, and now it’s filmmaker Robert Zemeckis’ turn.
One challenge in making yet another adaptation of A Christmas Carol is giving it a fresh spin. While Zemeckis and his crew agreed early on to stay as true to the underlying material as possible, he did make sure to add in different elements.
“I had everyone speaking in the language of the time, the way Dickens wrote it, which I think is beautiful. We kept the tone that Dickens had in the original piece,” said Zemeckis.
Additionally, since Jim Carrey plays not only Ebenezer Scrooge at all ages, but also the three ghosts, Carrey came up with different dialects for each character. “The Ghost of Christmas Past is Irish, the Ghost of Present is sort of Scottish, and Scrooge is the Queen’s English,” Zemeckis said.
And it’s only appropriate that Carrey takes on so many roles.>>

By Amber Pinsonneault
Lance Writer

November 4, 2009

What started when Marty Gervais was 13 years-old, playing table hockey with his brothers and laying out a make-believe newspaper to keep track of scores, Black Moss Press is now celebrating 40 years of publishing.
By the time he was 22, he was being published by the Windsor Review, Canadian Poetry Magazine, and Fiddlehead.
Gervais’ dreams were coming true.
Yet, constantly surrounded by lively and creative authors, Gervais became inspired to think outside of his own dreams. He couldn’t understand why such talented young authors weren’t being published.
So he returned to Windsor with his wife Donna and started Black Moss Press, cranking out a magazine on a battered old mimeograph machine in an attic flat on Dougall.
The young couple would drive their Austin-Healey Sprite to Toronto to drop off the magazine to bookstores willing to sell it.
Most agreed to take them on consignment. >>

By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor
November 4, 2009

As the most publicized sexual assault case in Detroit, The Queen’s Daughter is the true story of Windsor resident Melissa McCormick.

In 1976, when McCormick was 19 years-old, she was kidnapped after her car broke down on the Lodge Freeway in Detroit. She was held captive for 12 hours, repeatedly raped and beaten.
During this, McCormick did not believe she would make it out alive and even begged her captors to kill her.
She managed to escape and has used this experience to help others as well as become a strong and successful businesswoman.
Now The Queen’s Daughter is set to hit the big screen.
Two films have been adapted from McCormick’s book, both written by filmmaker Scott Scheirich. The first, a short 20-minute film called Determined, just finished shooting in Toronto and is currently in the editing process.
When Scheirich and McCormick teamed up, Scheirich decided to produce a short film and a feature film. In order to establish credibility, Scheirich chose to make a short film first to show at film festivals. >>