Chapter 16 of Stars Above a Sea is up for your reading pleasure, via the Writings section. Also, the other chapters have received an aesthetic makeover.
Monthly Archive for March, 2007
Shaftesbury Pictures has announced they’ve sold the telefilm Booky Makes Her Mark–about a young aspiring writer in 1930s Toronto–to various stations in Europe and the Middle East. Eventually, Sky TV in the UK, Reshet-TV in Israel, Netherlands Public Broadcasting, and Ireland’s TV3 will air it. Shaftesbury hopes to make more sales to other countries at the upcoming MIPTV.
The film features Megan Follows as Booky’s mother and Lally Cadeau as Lucy Maud Montgomery. It aired in Canada back in December 2006 to a small audience of over 300,000.
Beginning next week, and for the next four to five weeks after that, anyone who goes to see The Drowsy Chaperone on Broadway will get to see Jonathan Crombie as the “Man in Chair”.
Jon isn’t new to Drowsy. Years ago, during the Toronto Fringe Festival, he played one of the gangsters.
Before heading out to NYC, he had been working on a documentary about Toronto’s public library system, particularly about the year-long waiting list to see the only VHS copy of the movie Ishtar, a 1987 satire made on an egregious budget about desert epic films which Jon considers a guilty pleasure. The VHS is lost; the film is not on DVD. Work on this will continue after Jon departs from Drowsy.
March sightings and birthdays are up.
