Radheyan Simonpillai, The Canadian Press Richard Gere says he contemplated coming to Canada to avoid being sent to the Vietnam War. The actor plays a draft dodger in Paul Schrader’s film "Oh Canada," and like his character, was a conscientious objector as a young man, he tells a group of journalists at the Cannes Film Festival a day after its premiere. “I ended up running,” Gere says Saturday, careful to reveal little about how he dodged authorities. But instead of fleeing to Canada as his character does, he moved to the U.S. West Coast. “The draft board was harassing my...
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