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A review of Stellar Productions I OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES by Miriam King of the West Gwillimbury Times from their December 24 '09 edition: For full article CLICK HERE
Stellar Productions was back at the Howard
Johnson's Queen Elizabeth Dinner Theatre on December 19, with a
heart-warming production of Neil Simon's I Ought to Be in Pictures. No-one does bittersweet like Simon – combining wry humour and
biting one-liners in scenarios that somehow manage to express the Human
Comedy with an upbeat twist, without being saccharine. I Ought to Be in Pictures is no exception. Set in California,
the protagonists are displaced Brooklynite Herb Tucker (Chuck
Therrien), an aging screenwriter whose best ideas may be in the past;
his long-suffering girlfriend Steffy Blondell (Elaine Jarvis), whose
patience, after two years of a relationship, is wearing thin. and
Libby, the teenage daughter he abandoned 16 years earlier (played by
Victoria Murdoch). Murdoch is wonderful as the daughter, who arrives on Herb's
doorstep with the announcement that she wants to be "in pictures" - but
in reality, only hopes to connect with the father she has never known.
Therrien is suitably crusty as the dad who finally faces his own fear
of attachment and fear of failure, and Jarvis creates sparks as Steffy,
the studio make-up artist who wonders where their relationship is
going. The show is funny, sweet, hopeful – vintage Simon, and well worth the trip to Aurora.
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KNOWS NO PAIN is an independent short film directed by R. Victor Vandenbosch of Pain Films. It shot in June '09 on a farm just North of Burlington ON. Post production is scheduled to be completed by Fall '09. Spoiler alert: I die. What is it with me and dying in period films? Enjoy the pics!
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Point of Viewing
By Todd McGinnis
August 20 - 22 2009
1 Live Broadcast. 3 Female Co-hosts.
10 Years of Baggage... Let the Games Begin.
When a technical mishap destroys their pre-taped prime-time, 10th
Anniversary special, the three women who host TVs most popular daytime
talk show are forced to go live-to-air to replace it. But
behind-the-scenes politics, tell-all tabloid stories and rumours
about the show's fate have lit the fuse on an emotional powder-keg. Now, with no chance for edits or retakes, 10 years of off-camera differences are about to explode on the air!
I play Sincerity
Weeks: "Sincerity is a hard-as-nails, self-absorbed,
career-obsessed woman, the complete opposite of her on-screen role of
Point of View's sensitive, openly emotional conscience."
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Blood Boars centers on a modest turn-of-the-century farming village as a small
search party heads into the forest in hopes of finding two missing
children. Once becoming stranded, implicit human brutality tears
through the illusion of community and destroys the group one by one. A
quaint folkloric tale meets transcendental horror. (2010)
Blood Boars is a Ryerson Film School Thesis project written and directed by Justin Oakey and produced by Jessica Toombs. The cast and crew filmed from October 15th to 19th '09 in Shanty Bay, ON. Cast includes Peter Valdron as Owen, Dave Vaughan as Benedict, Troy Feldman as Cyril and myself as Julie. Watch for it in the 2010 Ryerson University Film Festival and for production updates click here to follow the official blog.
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Dark City Street played in the Hamilton Fringe Festival, August 2008.
Here is our review in Hamilton's "VIEW" Mag:
DARK CITY STREETS — Dark City Streets, written by Sabrina Noble and
directed by Julie Florio was great fun. Noble takes the old detective
story formula and does a flip by casting women in all the traditional
male roles and visa versa. The writing was really well done and all the
performers were up to the task but Julie Pinto as Merlot Phillips was a
specific stand out. The set was nicely finished and utilized well.
Sound and lighting cues were just right. This was a nicely presented
piece: clever, funny, engaging, and sometimes a bit cheesy but in all
the right places. [TK]
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