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Fresh from their holiday break, the fine folks at This Is Not A Reading Series kick off the Winter/Spring 2007 season with…a film? Well, partly. This evening, join TINARS at the Royal Cinema as they celebrate the launch of Annabelle Gurwitch’s new book, Fired! Tales of The Canned, Canceled, Downsized & Dismissed. As the title would suggest, the book is comprised of tales of getting the axe from a host of contributors, from Bill Maher to Bob Saget.

If it weren't for our life as an -ist, we're not sure we'd ever leave our apartment. Fortunately, to fully -ist, one must seek out the new, the fresh, and the unknown. Brand new, or just new to us, that's what we're all about this week.

Yesterday, while listening to NPR for the obvious reasons, we heard a terrific interview with Ralph Fiennes. Terrific because at the very end of the interview, Leonard Lopate throws a curve at the pointy actor by asking him why he pronounces his name Rayfe. A short pause follows, and then Fiennes cobbles together an answer along the lines of 'that is actually how it was pronounced historically.' Now if we could only ask Chloë Sevigny from whence that umlaut came! Alas, we can't, because she's not starring in The Constant Gardener, the only movie opening this weekend that doesn't look abysmal, which by default makes it look all the more appetizing. A thriller set in Africa, starrring Rachel Weisz and no Brendan Fraser. There are worse things you could do with a Friday evening and a bag of popcorn.

Torontoist had the opportunity to attend an AGO lecture on the late artist Mark Lombardi a month ago that involved no artspeak, and lots of interesting ideas (usually accompanied by wildly gesticulating arms, and far too many bangled bracelets). The show, Mark Lombardi: Global Networks is at the AGO til December 5th, and TORONTOIST thinks its well worth the trek. Lombardi, who conspiracy theorists wil claim was murdered for what his careful drawings unearthed, was a painstaking artists, one who kept over 14,000 flashcards of important people, and worked on his huge drawings sitting on the floor, resource materials spread all around him. NPR has a neat photo gallery of Lombardi's drawings here. The NYC gallery Pierogi (yes, pierogi.) also presented a Lombardi show in 2000.