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Kate Trotter
Kate Trotter (born February 5, 1953) is a Canadian film, television and stage actress. Career Her television roles have included appearances in '' Wild Roses'', ''Covert Affairs'', ''Lost Girl'', '' The Newsroom'', ''Paradise Falls'', '' Earth: Final Conflict'', '' Kung Fu: The Legend Continues'', ''The Jane Show'', ''Republic of Doyle'', '' Blue Murder'', ''Murdoch Mysteries'', '' Friday the 13th: the Series'' and '' Sue Thomas F.B. Eye'', while her film roles have included '' Beyond Borders'', ''Joshua Then and Now'', ''Martha, Ruth and Edie'', ''Murder in the Hamptons'', ''Glory Enough for All'', ''The First Season'', ''Murder in Space'', ''Taking a Chance on Love'', ''Clarence'' and '' Tru Love''. She won a Gemini Award for Guest Actress in a Dramatic Series in 2003 for ''Blue Murder''."A love affair with the open road". ''National Post'', May 7, 2004. Her stage roles have included Miss Havisham in ''Great Expectations'', Madge Kendal in ''The Elephant Man'', Alma in ''Summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond Borders (film)
''Beyond Borders'' is a 2003 American romantic-drama film about aid workers, directed by Martin Campbell and starring Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Teri Polo and Kate Ashfield. The original music score was composed by James Horner. Reflecting Jolie's real-life interest in promoting humanitarian relief, the film was critically and financially unsuccessful. The film was marketed with the tagline ''"In a place she didn't belong, among people she never knew, she found a way to make a difference."'' Concurrently with the release of the film, Jolie published ''Notes from My Travels'', a collection of journal entries from her real-life experiences as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) — similar to her character in the film. Plot While attending a fund-raising gala, Sarah Jordan (Angelina Jolie), a naive, married American socialite living in England, witnesses a fiery plea delivered by an intruder – a renegade humanitarian, Dr. N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Expectations
''Great Expectations'' is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (Great Expectations), Pip (the book is a ''bildungsroman''; a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after ''David Copperfield'', to be fully narrated in the first person.''Bleak House'' alternates between a third-person narrator and a first-person narrator, Esther Summerson, but the former is predominant. The novel was first published as a serial (literature), serial in Dickens's weekly periodical ''All the Year Round'', from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes. The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens's most celebrated scenes, starting in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict Abel Magwitch. ''Great Expectations'' is full of extreme imagery – poverty, prison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Havisham
Miss Havisham is a character in the Charles Dickens novel ''Great Expectations'' (1861). She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life. She lives in a ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella. Dickens describes her as looking like "the witch of the place". Although she has often been portrayed in film versions as very elderly, Dickens's own notes indicate that she is only in her mid-thirties at the start of the novel. However, it is indicated in the novel that her long seclusion without sunlight has aged her. She is one of the most gothic characters in the work of Dickens. Character history Miss Havisham's father was a wealthy brewer and her mother died shortly after she was born. Her father remarried and had an illegitimate son, Arthur, with the household cook. Miss Havisham's relationship with her half-brother was a strained one. She inherited most of her father's fortune and fell in love w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Post
The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper available in several cities in central and western Canada. The paper is the flagship publication of Postmedia Network and is published Mondays through Saturdays, with Monday released as a digital e-edition only.National Post to eliminate Monday print edition , June 19, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2017 The newspaper is distributed in the provinces of , |
Gemini Award
The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada's television industry. The Gemini Awards are analogous to the Emmy Awards given in the United States and the BAFTA Television Awards in the United Kingdom. First held in 1986 to replace the ACTRA Award, the ceremony celebrated Canadian television productions with awards in 87 categories, along with other special awards such as lifetime achievement awards. The Academy had previously presented the one-off Bijou Awards in 1981, inclusive of some television productions. In April 2012, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced that the Gemini Awards and the Genie Awards would be discontinued and replaced by a new award ceremony dedicated to all forms of Canadian media, including television, film, and digital media, dubbed the "Canadian Screen Awards". The first annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on 4 March 2013. The Gemini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tru Love (film)
''Tru Love'' is a 2013 Canadian drama film written, directed and produced by Kate Johnston and Shauna MacDonald. '''', May 22, 2014. Plot Tru Richmond, 37, is a serial bed-hopping lesbian who cannot commit to a relationship or a job for long. Restless by nature and wounded by the past, she seems to live from pillar to post, from mattress to mattress, bobbing along through life with no anchor to ground her. She gets by on her wits, her considerable good looks, and charm — but at her age, it is all starting to wear a little thin. Tru meets 60-year-old widow Alice ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence (1990 Film)
''Clarence'' is a 1990 made-for-television film directed by Eric Till. It is a sequel to the 1946 film ''It's a Wonderful Life'' following the character of Clarence Odbody from that film. Plot The film is set in December 1989. The only continuing character from the original film is the guardian angel, Clarence, played here by Robert Carradine. The plot is very similar to that of the 1946 film, with Kate Trotter playing Rachel Logan, the human who needs Clarence's assistance. Cast Release The film was made for TV and did not have a theatrical release. It was first broadcast on The Family Channel on November 24, 1990. See also * List of Christmas films * List of films about angels This is a list of films where angels appear. Angels * ''The Christmas Angel'' (1904) * ''The Passing of the Third Floor Back'' (1935) * ''The Green Pastures'' (1936) * '' Here Comes Mr. Jordan'' (1941) * ''I Married an Angel'' (1942) * ''A Guy Na ... References External links * 1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taking A Chance On Love (film)
''Taking a Chance on Love'' (also known as ''The Note II: Taking a Chance on Love'') is a 2009 American-Canadian made-for-television romance film and a sequel to the hit Hallmark Channel movie '' The Note''. The film was written by Douglas Barr. Angela Hunt, author of the novel ''The Note'', did a novelization of Barr's script. The film aired on Hallmark Channel on January 31, 2009. Plot Peyton MacGruder (Genie Francis) is still learning how to be a parent after reuniting with Christine, the daughter she gave up for adoption 18 years earlier. She's also trying to manage her new relationship with King (Ted McGinley), but things get even more complicated when he asks her to marry him. Peyton is hesitant to take a chance at the happiness she deserves, but a note from a reader of her "Heart Healer" column leads to a new friendship that will teach her there's a time to be cautious and a time to follow your heart. Cast * Genie Francis as Peyton McGruder * Ted McGinley as Kingston "Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder In Space
:''Murder in Space is also the title of a 1955 science fiction novel by David V. Reed and a 2007 mystery novel by Sydney J. Bounds.'' ''Murder in Space'' is a 1985 science fiction murder mystery television movie set in the near future. The crew of an international space mission are on the return leg from Mars to Earth when an explosion occurs on the craft ''Conestoga'', shortly after a series of murders starts. The crew of the returning craft are forbidden to return until the murderer is caught. On its initial worldwide premiere, the film was shown without the ending and a competition was set for the viewers to solve the mystery of who the murderer or murderers were. The conclusion of the film was shown several days later, with the contestants eliminated one by one until the winner correctly identified the killer or killers. The final 15 minutes of the film was shown at a later date when the mystery was solved with only two countries provided winners with the correct answer. Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The First Season
''The First Season'' is a Canadian drama film, released in 1989. The film stars Kate Trotter as Alex Cauldwell, a woman in British Columbia who, following the death of her fisherman husband Frank (Dwight Koss), tries to support herself and her daughter Jodie (Christianne Hirt) with the help of Frank's former fishing colleague Eric Anderson ( R. H. Thomson). The film was directed by Ralph L. Thomas, but he successfully lobbied to have his name removed from the completed film after alleging that the producers interfered with his director's cut by restoring 10 minutes of material he had removed from the film and cutting five minutes of material he considered "crucial"."Director takes name off movie". ''Toronto Star'', August 30, 1989. Unlike in the United States, where a film in this situation would have been credited to Alan Smithee, the Canadian film industry had no provisions for a directorial pseudonym, so the film was simply released without a directorial credit."Fisherman's wido ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glory Enough For All
''Glory Enough for All'' is a 1988 Canadian television movie directed by Eric Till and written by Grahame Woods, depicting the discovery and isolation of insulin by Frederick Banting and Charles Herbert Best. It was the winner of nine 1989 Gemini Awards. The film stars R. H. Thomson as Banting, and Robert Wisden as Best. It is based on the books ''The Discovery of Insulin'' and ''Banting: A Biography'' by historian Michael Bliss. It was aired in November 1989 in the United States in two parts as part of the PBS show ''Masterpiece Theatre'' and introduced by Alistair Cooke. Plot synopsis The movie focuses on Banting and Best and their isolation of insulin at the University of Toronto for which Banting received the 1923 Nobel Prize along with John Macleod. A parallel story is told of Elizabeth Hughes, a young girl with diabetes. Cast * R. H. Thomson as Frederick Banting *Robert Wisden as Charles Herbert Best *Michael Zelniker as James Collip *John Woodvine as J.J.R. Macleo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
