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http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/ - "How come every time the OIL INDUSTRY gets government money, it's a SUBSIDY...but when the ARTS INDUSTRY gets money, it's a HANDOUT?" -RON JAMES, 2009 Geminis
Well, stick a fork in'er, I'm done. I really want to thank Denis for loaning myself, and a whole bunch of us newbie writers, his podium this week. Denis, I hope you find yourself coming back into the fray a touch more tanned, rested and relaxed than when you left. CRTC-wise... well, in true ...
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Nathan Estabrooks is an Ottawa-based screenwriter, artist and rabble-rouser. Apparently he's also mere moments away from being a Dad. ----- Keep your stick on the ice! Remember that? Whether skating around a rink or chasing an orange ball down a street, it doesn’t matter. We all know what it ...
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Mary Pedersen was pursuing a Masters in Creative Writing when she got her first production job on the Sci-Fi series, Starhunter . Mary sold her first spec script to Starhunter that same season, became Junior Story Editor on the series, and co-wrote a second episode. Her original family drama ...
Comedy
Originally from Vancouver, Peter Rowley got his start writing for the theater while studying at the University of British Columbia. After a narrow escape from law school, Peter submersed himself full time in the film and television world, first by interning with Keatley Entertainment, and then ...
Drama
Jeff Zucker
Larry King
NBC Universal
Elize Morgan is a recent CFC TV grad, and the proud owner of a wandering soapbox that sometimes gets the best of her. Elize also grew up on Canadian television that was not the Littlest Hobo – though she's sure the pup doesn't have fleas anymore – and thinks it's time to bring it back. ----- ...
Comedy
The Game
Uh... what? Could you say that again? (actually, he did, again... today at the ACTRA presentation!) If there's anything that can be hinted at as a 'win' out of these CRTC hearings it's that quote right there. A simple thing, something said almost as an aside. But out of the mouth of Chairman Von ...
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Born in Missouri, emerging Canadian writer Richard Baldwin won the Langston Hughes Award for Creative Writing (Poetry) in 1998 and published "Along an Edge" in The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association's Star*Line magazine (Jan/Feb 2007). Richard is currently developing STUFFED!, an ...
Comedy
Don't know if you've seen the trailer for this show yet, but yeah... wow, it's earned my eyes for the pilot and an episode or two. --for updates and to continue the discussion in comments, please go directly to http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com--
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is next Tuesday, December 1st. So... yeah, just a reminder to grab your nomination/entry forms while you can. Best of luck to all who're being nominated! --for updates and to continue the discussion in comments, please go directly to http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com--
Reality
The Best Of
Stephanie Law is an emerging screenwriter & playwright whose play CANCER & CARNIVORES, won York University’s President’s Creative Writing Prize in Playwriting. A second play, GIRLS OF KENSINGTON, was featured at the Factory Theatre’s CrossCurrents Festival in 2006. She is a former member ...
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One thing I've realized, after having watched a week's worth of the CRTC hearings in action, is that there really seems to be no definitive 'answer'. No one solution that'll make everyone happy. Truth be told, if there's one thing I've become certain of it's that whatever the outcome, it'll be ...
Comedy
Make 'Em Laugh
Hey folks! I'm Brandon Laraby and Denis has entrusted me with the keys to this place for the week. Now, I know it's not my soapbox (man, this things got stairs and everything) but I promise I'll love it like my own. That said, for those (most) who don't know me, I run a lil' blog over yonder ...
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IN NOVEMBER 2007, the WGC held a rally in solidarity to support the members of the Writers Guild of America, who had just gone on strike mainly over the issue of payments and residuals in new media. The strike was still bitter and new, and tangentially related to Canada. Whatever ...
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Alicia Keys
WELL, I'M OUT of here for a week. Lighting out to Sunny Florida. Next week we've got something special planned. Hope you'll be able to make it back for a few new voices in this space. I'll see you sometime after the Grey Cup . Go Stamps! --for updates and to continue the discussion in ...
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Hope Davis
INTERESTING ARTICLE IN Playback: The champagne corks are popping at CHCH in Hamilton. The local TV station, recently purchased for $12 by Channel Zero , has seen its supper-hour newscast become highly competitive this fall in nearby Toronto, the country's biggest and most lucrative ...
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Y'ALL MIGHT FIND this interesting. A no-B.S. breakdown of how you won't get rich just by having a book on the New York Times bestseller list. Should give the starry-eyed AND the haters something to think on... (H/t @kazza323) --for updates and to continue the discussion in ...
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UM. WHEN DID Parks & Recreation get so damn funny ? Death of the sitcom, my overwatered kiester. --for updates and to continue the discussion in comments, please go directly to http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com--
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ONE OF THE interviews I did this morning, for CBC's Toronto Morning show, Metro Morning, with the venerable Andy Barrie is up and available for download. I have to get a better phone. Andy's questions were really great -- and he's very informed on the subject. I think it's a pretty good ...
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Shameless
I HONESTLY DON'T think that I have more to say about the coverage and things I heard from the CRTC hearings today. I'm astonished, a little. The openness, the utter lack of ideas, the complete and bloody-minded insistence on old ways of thinking. A business that stands in ...
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IF YOU'RE A TeeVee Geek... from the NYTimes: After devoting most of his energy in recent years to feature films and cable, the writer, director and producer Larry Charles is returning to network television. Mr. Charles, left, who wrote many episodes for the NBC hit ...
