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COLIN DENNIS is a freelance writer and author. Colin was born in Kingston, Jamaica but migrated to Canada in 1983. He graduated from Concordia University with degrees in political science (1991) and journalism (1993) and pursued graduate studies in public policy & public administration (1998-2000). At Concordia Colin was president of the Graduate Students Association from 1998 until 2000. As president he was co-producer and co-emcee of the 1999 Orientation concert featuring one of his favorite artists Gil Scott-Heron and Spearhead. Colin also hosted Perry Henzell, the writer and director of The Harder They Come and organized a launch of Henzell's book Cane at Chapters bookstore in Montreal where Henzell read and fielded questions from his audience. Colin won an Outstanding Student Award in 2000.

Colin has also pursued studies in Life Skills Coaching at George Brown College in Toronto. He holds a certificate in Effective Speaking & Human Relations from Dale Carnegie Training and is a founding member of Ebony Toastmasters. His writing has been published in newspapers including the Montreal Gazette (This Week in Business). In September 2008 Colin self-published his memoir The Road Not Taken: Memoirs of a Reluctant Guerrilla. Originally published in 1985, The Road Not Taken: Memoirs of a Reluctant Guerilla sold 10,000 copies in its first printing. Used copies have been turning up on amazon.com for as much as $100 per copy. A documentary partially based on the book is planned.

Whenever time allows Colin likes to get involved in volunteer work: He has worked with United Way and was a listener at Tel-Aide, a Montreal distress centre. He lives somewhere in Ontario, Canada.

Entertainment > Movie Analysis Movie analysis: The film noir 'Femme Fatale' re-examined

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Femmes fatales in literature resemble the ones in film noir in more ways than one. In fact they look like carbon copies. French author,  Prosper Mérimée’s  “Carmen” or his compatriot Gustave Flaubert’s “Emma Bovary”  look no different from the characters played by Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Greer, Lana Turner or Veronica Lake in film noir. And literature is replete with such women: from Circe in Edmund Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene” to Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley in “Lady Audley’s Secre...

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