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To: Leo Mitkievicz who wrote (6534)	4/11/1999 8:38:00 AM
From: A. Reader	Respond to of 9798

>>Can we lighten up a little on this?<< Sure. Here's part of an article "on the lighter side" from the Globe and Mail for you Leo: Not a breastplate in sight at Brel gala Friday, April 9, 1999 SARAH HAMPSON If only Toronto were smaller and dowdier, then we, too, could have women such as Marlen Cowpland, wife of Corel founder Michael Cowpland, dressing up in millennial-war-goddess outfits to prove they are not as boring as the city they live in. Mrs. Cowpland lives in toy-town Ottawa, poor thing, and is reduced, as she was Wednesday, to sartorial publicity stunts. Her black lamb-leather catsuit, adorned with a 24-karat-gold partial breastplate and a single 15-carat diamond nipple, cost $1-million. I'm sure she thinks that she's being witty, that somehow she is bringing her audience social performance art. Criticized for the skin she usually bares at gala functions in the city that never really wakes up, she decided to wear a different kind of skin. And I imagine her deadpanning, "Oh, my nipple is as hard as a diamond." Toronto, alas, is not as boring as Ottawa. The city is full of interesting and powerful people who consider themselves world-class. They receive enough ego stroking in their boardrooms and their ballrooms and their society hair salons that they don't feel the need to invite attention on the social scene. You'd never know by looking at them that they are fun. Sexuality is always juxtaposed with intelligence, and it's hard to get anyone to say something stupid. In fact, the crowd at the gala opening on Wednesday night for the beloved musical Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at the Winter Garden Theatre was so sophisticated that a mood of nostalgia prevailed.