Margaret Ann Jewison, long-time wife of Canadian film director Norman Jewison, died Friday in a hospital in Orangeville, Ont. She was 74.
She died of undisclosed causes at the Headwaters Health Care Centre a day after her 74th birthday, according to Jewison's Toronto office.
"We offer our deepest condolences to Norman and his family,'' a representative for the Canadian Film Centre said in a statement. The Canadian director founded the centre 16 years ago.
Although not a household name, Jewison (who was better known as Dixie) was often cited as an inspiration by her husband.
"Dixie was an extraordinary woman and tremendous champion of the Film Centre, and a patron of the arts. She will be terribly missed by all that knew her,'' the centre added in its statement.
In his recently published autobiography This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me he recalled her helping to organize a post-Toronto Film Festival barbecue for industry insiders at their home in Caledon, Ont., in the early 1980s.
That event grew into the current post-festival party that is hosted at Jewison's film centre.
Funeral services will be held in Bolton, Ont., on Tuesday afternoon. A memorial service will be held in Los Angeles at a later date.
PARIS — Louvre museum to get an outpost in northern France.
The French government has announced plans to build the Louvre II, an offshoot of the famed Paris museum, in a small town in northern France.
Scheduled to open to the public in 2008, the new outpost in Lens will house up to 600 works currently in storage in the Louvre in Paris.
French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin announced Monday that Lens, a town which has been hard hit by the loss of industrial sector jobs, was the winner in a six-city contest to host the new museum.
The 72,179-square-metre museum will cost about $139 million US to build.
MORGANTOWN, W. VA. — Don Knotts to be focus of hometown festival
Officials in the West Virginia hometown of actor Don Knotts will honour him next summer with a festival dedicated to his more than 60-year career in film, television and theatre.
The Don Knotts Festival will take place during Morgantown's Arts Celebration Week in August 2005.
The festival will include showings of some of Knotts's film and television work, along with memorabilia from his lengthy career.
Knotts, who is 80, is best known for his Emmy Award-winning role as the bumbling deputy Barney Fife on the 1960s television comedy The Andy Griffith Show.
"I would call it a celebration of Don's work and what he has accomplished," said Morgantown Mayor Ron Justice.
"Really, there hasn't been a whole lot done around some of his work compared to other people that co-starred on The Andy Griffith Show."
Organizers plan on inviting Knotts to the festival, which they hope will become an annual event.
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