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Physical location(s) of Avril Lavigne's music video - I'm With You

Greetings,

I'm looking at the music video of Avril Lavigne, performing her song "I'm With You". I'm just mighty curious as to where the video was filmed, mostly, though I suspect it was somewhere in Canada. I can't find the answer on Wikipedia or in the comments of the YouTube page.

Any help will be much appreciated. But I am guessing it's shot in her home town of Greater Napanee. I can't say that for sure, though.

Regards, anonymous197.87.64.99 (talk) 09:24, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

There's a shot of the Orpheum Theatre about a minute in and a band member on a bench. Google Maps shows that same theatre and bench at 842 Broadway, Los Angeles. Not sure if the whole video is in LA, but that scene is. InedibleHulk (talk) 17:03, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

All the street shots seem to be on Broadway. No clue about the interiors. InedibleHulk (talk) 17:10, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

What is the meaning of "response" in Indian cinema?

Articles (at WP and elsewhere) on Indian films frequently speak of the "response" or "turnout" as a percentage. For example, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom "opened to a 65-70% response, which was below expectations....The film has opened well in big cities such as Mumbai with a 75% turnout and Delhi which had a 70% response...all the big theatres reached to a 90%+ response with many being 100%." What is this measuring? --Sneftel (talk) 09:26, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

From the context of this article, it seems like its the occupancy rate all theaters. So, if a movie theater seats 100 people and sells 80 tickets, it has a 80% turnout or response. uhhlive (talk) 16:47, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Anna Leonowens portrayed in the King and I

In the King and I, Anna Leonowens seems to be portrayed by a white woman with fair complexion. Why they just don't cast a dark-skinned woman as Anna Leonowens? 140.254.171.120 (talk) 19:39, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Because Anna Leonowens was white, essentially. She was born in India but of British stock. There's some uncertainty about her maternal grandmother, whose name is not even known, and it's postulated she was only half white. That makes Anna at least 7/8 white. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 19:54, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Yul Brynner was not very Siamese, either. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:00, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

But he was Asian, being born in Vladivostok and of part Buryat ancestry, a sub-group of the Mongols. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 03:13, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Yes, he was closer to being Siamese than Deborah Kerr was to being Indian, I expect. Hollywood has not always been true to ethnicity. I saw an interview with Rita Moreno not long ago. In her early years, especially, she was cast in any role that required a somewhat dark-skinned woman with an exotic accent. She said she had the all-purpose foreign accent. (Puerto Rican by birth) Deborah Kerr was Scottish. And Marni Nixon, who sang for her, was Californian. (This might be more info than the OP really wanted.) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:21, 14 September 2013 (UTC)