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Is it a stage or a movie set?, The CNE's Grandstand looked more like the skeleton of a D

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Is it a stage or a movie set?, The CNE's Grandstand looked more like the skeleton of a D

Date10/4/1984

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Cooper, David (photographer)

Jackson, Michael, 1958-2009 (subject)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Is it a stage or a movie set?, The CNE's Grandstand looked more like the skeleton of a D. W. Griffith epic movie set yesterday as the Jacksons's Victory Tour stage took shape for tonight's opening concert in a weekend of Michaelmania in Toronto. Huge banks of speakers were being mounted on either side of the stage, which is a trapezoid, 10 feet high, set at the goal line.

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