The temptation to escape your country in turmoil: Terrence Malick's wife on America and 9/11.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/terrence-malick-wife-september-11-to-the-wonder-369391

Having read the above article, I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly what went through the minds of Alexandra Wallace and her famed filmmaker husband Terrence Malick (someone whose reputation will always rest on his 1970s films BADLANDS and DAYS OF HEAVEN, regardless of his later work following roughly two decades of retirement).

Are they the type of showbiz people who want to escape the USA when it's in turmoil a la celebs who talked about moving to, say, Switzerland during the Vietnam War?

Or do the Malicks think the Canada of 2012 is a sufficient panacea even considering its Rightward drift over the last 11 years (from not heeding Bush 43's call to Iraq to Canada pulling its embassy out of Iran)?

Re Toronto's upcoming G20 summit

Later this month, world leaders will gather in Toronto, Ontario for the G20 summit.

Here's an example of a protesters-come-together link:
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/

And here's the Official reaction:http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/784285--g20-summit-security-to-be-massive

And there's a lot of disgruntlement over an artificial lake constructed for the occasion:
http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=5480816070832499989
[later, Canadian officials claimed the lake had only a five-figure cost]

No doubt, the US media's G8/G20 coverage will focus mainly on authorities vs. protesters. But the apparent $1 billion (in Canadian dollars) cost of the occasion--plus the ratio of actual accomplishments to rhetoric of the nations meeting there--make this an event for everyone to pay attention to.