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Elliot L. Sims
Elliot L. Sims was a Canadian film and television screenwriter. He is most noted for the 1989 film '' Cold Comfort'', for which he and Richard Beattie won the Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990.John Griffin, "Jesus de Montreal sweeps Genies". '' Montreal Gazette'', March 21, 1990. Sims' other credits included episodes of '' It's a Man's World'', '' The Littlest Hobo'' and ''E.N.G. ''E.N.G.'' is a Canadian television drama, following the staff of a fictional Toronto television news station. The show aired on CTV from 1989 to 1994. The series ran for 96 episodes, produced by the Alliance Entertainment Corporation. Plot ...''. References External links * 20th-century Canadian screenwriters 20th-century Canadian male writers Canadian male screenwriters Canadian television writers Best Screenplay Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners Possibly living people Year of birth missing Place of birth missing {{Canada-screenwrite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold Comfort (film)
''Cold Comfort'' is a Canadian psychological thriller film, released in 1989.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 45. The film was written by Richard Beattie and Elliot L. Sims based on the play by Jim Garrard, and directed by Vic Sarin. The film premiered in August 1989 at the Montreal World Film Festival.John Griffin, "Director gets Cold Comfort from long series of glitches". ''Montreal Gazette'', August 29, 1989. Plot Stephen Paul Gross is a salesman who gets drawn into a sexual psychodrama between Floyd (Maury Chaykin), a sociopathic truck driver, and his daughter Dolores (Margaret Langrick), when the three are caught together in a blizzard. The film's cast also includes Jayne Eastwood, Ted Follows, Richard Fitch and Grant Roll. Production The film was slated to be shot in Edmonton and Winnipeg, but had to be relocated to Ontario after production delays led the arrangements to fall through. Cynthia Preston had also been originally cast i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Beattie
Richard Beattie is a Canadian screenwriter. He is most noted for the 1989 film '' Cold Comfort'', for which he and Elliot L. Sims won the Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990. Born and raised in British Columbia, Beattie studied political science at the University of British Columbia before applying to, but then dropping out of law school in 1985. His first screenplay, '' Blindside'', was directed by Paul Lynch and released in 1987. His other credits have included the films '' Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil'' (1992), '' The Shower'' (1992), ''Cold Sweat'' (1993), '' No Contest II'' (1997), ''Grizzly Falls'' (1999), ''The Highwayman'' (2000), '' The Baby Formula'' (2009),Barry Hertz, "A plot that's hard to conceive". ''The Globe and Mail'', June 19, 2009. '' High Plains Invaders'' (2009), '' Maximum Conviction'' (2012) and ''Cartels'' (2017), and episodes of the television series ''True Justice ''True Justice'' is an American televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genie Award
The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978; also known as the "Etrog Awards," for sculptor Sorel Etrog, who designed the statuette). Genie Award candidates were selected from submissions made by the owners of Canadian films or their representatives, based on the criteria laid out in the ''Genie Rules and Regulations'' booklet which is distributed to Academy members and industry members. Peer-group juries, assembled from volunteer members of the Academy, meet to screen the submissions and select a group of nominees. Academy members then vote on these nominations. In 2012, the Academy announced that the Genies would merge with its sister presentation for English-language television, the Gemini Awards, to form a new award presentation known as the Canadian Screen Awards. Broadcasting The Genie Awards were originally aire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Screen Award For Best Screenplay
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television presents one or more annual awards for the Best Screenplay for a Canadian film. Originally presented in 1968 as part of the Canadian Film Awards, from 1980 until 2012 the award continued as part of the Genie Awards ceremony. As of 2013, it is presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards. In their present form, two awards are presented for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, although historically this division was not always observed. In the Canadian Film Awards era, two awards were usually presented in Feature and Non-Feature (television films, short films, etc.) categories, although on two occasions the feature category was further divided into separate categories for Original and Adapted Screenplay, resulting in the presentation of three screenplay awards overall, and on two occasions only one award for Non-Feature Screenplay was presented. Under current Academy rules, the categories are collapsed into one if either c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
11th Genie Awards
The 11th annual Genie Awards were presented March 20, 1990, and honoured Canadian films released in 1989. For this year, CTV had negotiated to serve as broadcaster and the academy formed a wholly-owned subsidiary, ACCTV Productions, to independently produce its show. In the months leading up to the event, CTV extensively promoted the awards, and broadcaster Brian Linehan and a film crew traveled to Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal, shooting vignettes about Canadian films and filmmaking.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . pp. 117-199. The ceremony was broadcast from the Metro Toronto Convention Centre."Puttin' on the glitz for this year's Genies". ''The Globe and Mail'', March 17, 1990. There was no overall host, but actor Al Waxman introduced and concluded the show. Linehan hosted his vignettes and each Best Picture nominees was given a two-minute clip."East meets West in battle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal Gazette
The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of the 20th century. It is one of the French-speaking province's last two English-language dailies; the other is the ''Sherbrooke Record'', which serves the anglophone community in Sherbrooke and the Eastern Townships southeast of Montreal. Founded in 1778 by Fleury Mesplet, ''The Gazette'' is Quebec's oldest daily newspaper and Canada's oldest daily newspaper still in publication. The oldest newspaper overall is the English-language ''Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph'', which was established in 1764 and is published weekly. History Fleury Mesplet founded a French-language weekly newspaper called ''La Gazette du commerce et littéraire, pour la ville et district de Montréal'' on June 3, 1778. It was the first entirely French-language newspaper i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's A Man's World (TV Series)
''It's a Man's World'' is an American comedy-drama television series which aired on NBC from September 17, 1962, to January 28, 1963.Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', New York: Penguin Books, 1996, 4th ed., pp. 415–416 Plot Cast *Glenn Corbett as Wes Macauley * Michael Burns as Howie Macauley *Ted Bessell as Tom-Tom DeWitt * Randy Boone as Vern Hodges Episodes Aftermath After the show was cancelled as of mid-January 1963, Corbett found work almost immediately on the already-airing show '' Route 66''. ''Route 66'' was thematically similar to ''It's A Man's World'', exploring many of the same issues of American life, particularly the issues of restlessness and idealism. Corbett began his co-starring role as Lincoln Case on ''Route 66'' in March, 1963. In 1977, ABC revisited the premise of ''Its a Mans World'' with ''The San Pedro Beach Bums'', a 60-minute situation comedy about five young men living together on a houseboat in San Pedro, California Cali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Littlest Hobo
''The Littlest Hobo'' is a Canadian television series (French title: ''Le Vagabond'') based upon a 1958 well-known film of the same name directed by Charles R. Rondeau. The series first aired from 1963 to 1965 in syndication, and was revived for a popular second run on CTV, spanning six seasons, from October 11, 1979, to March 7, 1985. The concept of the show was that of "an ownerless dog". All three productions revolved around an extremely intelligent stray German Shepherd, the titular Hobo, who wanders from town to town, helping people in need. Although the concept (of a dog saving the day) was perhaps similar to that of '' Lassie'' and/or ''Rin Tin Tin'', the Littlest Hobo's destiny was to befriend those who apparently needed help (all portrayed by actors in celebrity guest appearance roles). Despite the attempts of the many people whom he helped to adopt him, he appeared to prefer to be on his own, and would head off by himself at the end of each episode. Referred to as “G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Male Screenwriters
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Television Writers
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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