”Lights! Camera! Action!”
Standing in ankle-deep snow, Peter Lynch, director of Project Grizzly, had a vision he wanted to portray. The documentary he was filming focused on Troy …
Posts in category Spring 1999
Battle for Survival
Blissfully sleeping for about five hours in a tent pitched on snow as hard as concrete, Jerry Kobalenko isn’t disturbed by the 24 hours of …
Ethics On Ice
“I want to be in a position to average out 1.5 [million dollars],” says Don Meehan, a National Hockey League player agent, as he argues …
Whine and Cheese
One afternoon in Italy, part way through yet another day crammed with too many winery visits, my fellow wine writers and I went on strike. …
Poll Position
November 26, four days before the 1998 Quebec election: A smug Jacques Parizeau, arms folded across his ample girth, looks out from the front page …
We’re Here, We’re Queer. But Are the Dailies Used to It?
Inside the boardroom at Xtra: Toronto’s Gay and Lesbian Biweekly, Eleanor Brown takes refuge far from the raucous production-night chatter to proof a story. “How …
Saturday’s Child
Two people arrived at their new jobs at Saturday Night magazine last September. Both wore a tie and a dress shirt tucked into chinos. Both …
Black Ties
We were in the car on our way to cover a story when the photographer looked over at me and grinned. “So, how do you …
Driving Miss Dempsey
It’s the early 1920s and Lotta Dempsey is nervously walking into the MacDonald Hotel in Edmonton to meet the subject of her interview, Miss Charlotte …
What Would You Do?
The Proposal In the fall of 1998, several well-known Toronto wine writers were asked to be consultants to Magnotta Winery Inc. The Toronto Star‘s Tony …
