Vanity Fair is on a roll. Seeing Tina Fey on its cover for January, I re-pledged my loyalty to this magazine. I’ve been reading VF for the last eight years, and the quality of VF’s special brand of insider and in-depth journalism never ceases to amaze. In this day and age of sound-bites and jump-to-conclusion storytelling, VF is the rare breed. The icing on the cake is of course their sense of smutty humour that never disappoints.
The film Australia was nothing but a taster in epics inspired by vast land masses, unruly natives, rough frontiers, and heroic romances. Because let’s face it, the upcoming Canada offers so much more, no? Listen to this Vanity Fair gabfest.
“In a world … where men worship flannel … and even hookers don’t put out on the first date … one man learned the difference … between love and loonies … ”
Not to be outdone by its colonial cousin Australia, lately immortalized on-screen by Oscar-nominated director Baz Luhrmann, the proud Commonwealth Commonwealth Realm of Canada has commissioned its own eponymous sweeping epic, this one starring national treasures Dan Aykroyd and Alanis Morissette as two lovers separated by language, ideology, and the great Molson-Labatt debate.
Rounding out the cast will be Donald Sutherland, as a retired member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police whose border-side empire of duty-free shops becomes an underground railroad for draft-dodging Americans; Celine Dion, as a militant Québécois separatist who cuts ties with Morissette after she takes up with Aykroyd’s Ottawan bureaucrat; and Mike Myers, in full Dr. Evil mode, as a poutine-munching French-Canadian terror-cell leader plotting to kill the Queen of England during a royal visit to the Chateau Frontenac.
source: vanity fair
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