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Sony: ‘The Interview’ to screen in Canada

TORONTO

Canadians will be able to watch “The Interview” when the comedy that provoked an international incident with North Korea is released in theaters across the country later this week.

Sony Pictures said Tuesday the film will open in 27 theaters Friday in various cities in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and New Brunswick.

Sony initially canceled plans to show the Seth Rogen-James Franco film depicting the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un because many theaters decided not to show the film.

Sony later reversed that decision, and the film started playing in some independent theaters in the United States.

Sony also released the movie online.

Show must go on for soprano after ferry fire

RIMINI, Italy

Dimitra Theodossiou survived the Greek ferry disaster but took no time off to recover from the traumatic evacuation: The Greek soprano was back at work Tuesday, rehearsing for her New Year’s Day debut in Giuseppe Verdi’s “Nabucco.”

Theodossiou was one of the most-vocal survivors of the Norman Atlantic fire, willingly recounting to anyone who would listen how there was no fire alarm, how the crew provided no instructions to frantic passengers, and how the passengers themselves pushed and shoved to get onto the coveted helicopter baskets.

On Tuesday, she hadn’t changed her tune, but she tried to put the trauma behind her.

As a result of the ferry disaster, performing now “is a challenge for me. That’s the way I am,” she said during a break in rehearsal.

Theodossiou plays the lead female soprano, Abigaille, in the Verdi classic being performed at a stadium in the Adriatic port city of Rimini.

Christine Cavanaugh, voice of ‘Babe,’ dies

LOS ANGELES

Christine Cavanaugh, a prolific voice actress whose characters included the titular character of “Babe,” has died. She was 51.

Cavanaugh’s sister Deionn Masock confirmed Tuesday that Cavanaugh died Dec. 22 at her home in Utah. An obituary notice also was published in Tuesday’s Los Angeles Times.

Masock says the cause of death isn’t known.

Cavanaugh lent her voice to many of the 1990s indelible cartoon characters, including Chuckie Finster in Nickelodeon’s “Rugrats,” Dexter on the Cartoon Network’s “Dexter’s Laboratory” and the live-action piglet of 1995’s “Babe.”

Cavanaugh retired from voice acting in 2001 and moved back to her native Utah.

Associated Press