Proud? Not much, I'm not
Gemini Awards last night:
Best dramatic series: Slings and Arrows (second season in a row)
Best actor in a dramatic series: Paul Gross, Slings and Arrows
Best actress in a dramatic series: Martha Burns, Slings and Arrows
Best writing in a dramatic series: Susan Coyne, Bob Martin, Mark McKinney, Slings and Arrows (second season in a row)
Also:
Best supporting actor in a dramatic series: Stephen Ouimette, Slings and Arrows (awarded two weeks ago)
Susie was also nominated for best actress, losing to Martha. In all the series had 15 nominations.
Yeah, I'm bragging on my sister. You wanna make something of it?
10/29/2007
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Familial pride is no vice.
But given the state of blog comments-section discourse, do expect a joke or two...
Congrats to your sister!
Slings and Arrows, I hadn't even heard of it before this. I do vaguely recall seeing ads about a show done by Mark McKinney.
And it's the first I've heard of Soulpepper. I've been to the other two S's (Stratford and Shaw, from that link from Ben).
I'll take a look-see. When's it on, on Showcase (or anywhere else)?
I've only seen Soulpepper productions in Ottawa, at the NAC. Classical theatre (I saw Moliere in translation), done with a lot of energy. If you're near Toronto you should see them in their new facility, as I've tried but so far failed to do.
While we're bragging, there's news about Coyne, which I've helpfully posted on my blog. Huzzah huzzah.
Slings and Arrows is my favourite Canadian TV series of all time... Sounds like damning with faint praise, but it's in my top 5 of all nationalities of TV, too.
Congrats on your new gig, Andrew C.
Damn you, Wells! Scooped again!
Andrew Coyne,
Is your father (or grandfather) the governor of the bank of Canada that locked horns with Diefenbaker.
So, those Coyne kids turned out okay, after all. Hmm.
Man,
Conversation at the Coyne family Christmas dinner must be quite something. There must be a slacker there, somewhere. You know, a physicist or something.
Congrats to your sister. I have no idea what it is she's been doing, but she's probably pretty good at it.
I'm not very big on Can Con. Not only because I couldn't be bothered watching on TV what I am forced to pay for through taxes ripped out of my hands. But our expensive and drivelly Can Con industry is hitting home right now. I wish you could see the look of disappointment on my kids' faces when they came home from the little theatre class we put them in on the weekends, and told us that because the classes receive "government money", there was absolutely no choice but they would have to present Can Con. And not good, fun, world-beating Can Con. Showcasing success would defeat the whole purpose of the welfare state - to promote obscure and unknown non-achievements. Not because they are hidden gems which deserve a bigger stage, but because they are weak, unentertaining and useless.
They said that even the teachers were disappointed when they got the news. Not enough to quit, mind you, and start a private, high quality theatre group and put on kickass entertainment in spite of the bureaucratic and political kulture knobs. "I don't think there is any material out there which meets the criteria they imposed on us," the director said. "I think we're going to have to write something and see if we can get it ready in time." Uh, yeah. Never mind studying and playing Shakespeare and George Gershwin. I know you joined this thing because you want to act and sing, kids, but this is Canada, and we're gonna skip right over all that commercial trash and start churning out Can Con before your twelfth birthday. It'll be great experience for when you're filling out grant applications someday.
"Damn you, Wells! Scooped again!"
Perhaps we can look forward to digital video files posted on AndrewCoyne.com that show excerpts of weekly editorial meetings where you torment Wells for his peculiar interest in Moliere and curious silence on Duhem.
I don't watch much TV anymore, but Slings and Arrows is one of those rare productions that led us to actually buy the DVDs of the show as soon as they became available. Entertainment doesn't come much better, tho this series will be especially humourous for Canadians. Susan Coyne, and the rest of the cast and crew, need no awards to validate what I'm sure they already know: they were brilliant.