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The Street (story Collection)
''The Street'' is a collection of short stories by Mordecai Richler. It was originally published by McClelland and Stewart in 1969. The stories take place on Saint Urbain Street in Montreal. Contents *Introduction by Mordecai Richler *"Going Home Again" *"The Street" *"The Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed to Die" *"The Red Menace" *"The Main" *"Pinky's Squealer" *"Bambinger" *"Benny, the War in Europe, and Myerson's Daughter Bella" *"Making It with the Chicks" *"Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill" *"The War, Chaverim, and After" Film adaptation In 1976, the title story ''The Street'' was adapted as an The Street (1976 film), animated short by the National Film Board of Canada. Directed by Caroline Leaf, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Television adaptations In 1979, CBC aired an award-winning (1980 Genie Awards) television movie ''The Wordsmith'', adapted by Mordecai Richler from several stories in his book. The film was directed by Claude Jutra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Jutra
Claude Jutra (; March 11, 1930 – November 5, 1986) was a Canadian actor, film director, and screenwriter."Claude Jutra" at . The , and the 's , were named in h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Stories Adapted Into Films
Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as the Short Arts, entertainment, and media * Short film, a cinema format (also called film short or short subject) * Short story, prose generally readable in one sitting * ''The Short-Timers'', a 1979 semi-autobiographical novel by Gustav Hasford, about military short-timers in Vietnam Brands and enterprises * Short Brothers, a British aerospace company * Short Brothers of Sunderland, former English shipbuilder Computing and technology * Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit * Short integer, a computer datatype Finance * Short (finance), stock-trading position * Short snorter, a banknote signed by fellow travelers, common during World War II Foodstuffs * Short pastry, one which is rich in butt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Canadian Library
The New Canadian Library is a publishing imprint of the Canadian company McClelland and Stewart. The series aims to present classic works of Canadian literature in paperback. Each work published in the series includes a short essay by another notable Canadian writer, discussing the historical context and significance of the work. These essays were originally forewords, but after McClelland and Stewart's 1985 sale to Avie Bennett, the prefatory material was abandoned and replaced by afterwords.Janet Friskney, "New Canadian Library," in Benson, Eugene and William Toye ds.''The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature.'' Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997 (p. 794) It was founded by Malcolm Ross with the intention of providing affordable material for his students; David Staines has been the general editor of the series since 1986. In 2007 the University of Toronto Press The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian university press founded in 1901. Although it was founded in 190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books By Mordecai Richler
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Short Story Collections
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314. * January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States. * January 22 – An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Brezhnev escaped unharmed. * January 27 ** Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel. ** R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Playhouse
''Global Playhouse'', intermittently also known as ''Bell Canada Playhouse'' or ''Bell Canada Global Playhouse'', is a Canadian television drama anthology series, which aired on Global Television Network in the 1980s.Rick Groen, "Short is sweet on Global". ''The Globe and Mail'', September 27, 1984. A coproduction of Atlantis Films and the National Film Board of Canada, the series aired film adaptations of short stories by Canadian writers. Its most noted episode was '' The Painted Door'', a dramatization of a short story by Sinclair Ross which was an Academy Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 57th Academy Awards in 1985. Other stories adapted for the series included Ross's "One's a Heifer","Atlantis completes 2 of Canlit series". ''Cinema Canada'', April 1984. p. 34. Mordecai Richler's "Bambinger", Margaret Laurence's "To Set Our House in Order", W. D. Valgardson's "Capital", W. P. Kinsella's "John Cat", Guy Vanderhaeghe's "Cages", Morley Callaghan's "All the Year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantis Films
Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. (commonly known as Alliance Atlantis and commonly shortened to simply Alliance or Atlantis and formerly traded as TSX:AAC) was a Canadian media company that operated primarily as a specialty service operator in Canada. Alliance Atlantis also had offices in Halifax, Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Madrid, Barcelona, Shannon, and Sydney. Alliance Atlantis was a merger of two companies: Atlantis Communications (founded in 1978), and Alliance Communications (founded in 1985). Both companies merged in 1998. The company ceased to exist in 2007 as the broadcasting division acquired by Canwest Global Communications and an affiliate of Goldman Sachs in 2007, with the motion picture division was then spun off and operated independently as Alliance Films, headquartered in Montreal (subsequently sold to Entertainment One), and the international television distribution division is now owned by Echo Bridge Entertainment. All of the former Alliance Atlant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Ward
Janet Ward (February 19, 1925 – August 2, 1995) was an American actress. She appeared in the films ''Fail Safe'' (1964), ''The Anderson Tapes'' (1971) and '' Night Moves'' (1975). She appeared in the television series ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', '' Perry Mason'', '' The Defenders'', ''N.Y.P.D.'', ''Cannon'', ''Barney Miller'', '' Kojak'' and ''Law & Order''. She died of a heart attack on August 2, 1995, in Manhattan, New York City, New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' ... at age 70. Filmography References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ward, Janet 1925 births 1995 deaths 20th-century American actresses American film actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saul Rubinek
Saul Hersh Rubinek (born July 2, 1948) is a German-born Canadian actor, director, producer, and playwright. He is widely known for his television roles, notably Artie Nielsen on '' Warehouse 13,'' Donny Douglas on ''Frasier'', Lon Cohen on ''A Nero Wolfe Mystery'', and Louis B. Mayer on ''The Last Tycoon.'' He also starred in the films '' Against All Odds'' (1984), ''Wall Street'' (1987), ''The Bonfire of the Vanities'' (1990), ''Unforgiven'' (1992), ''Nixon'' (1995), ''True Romance'' (1993), '' The Express'' (2008), '' Barney's Version'' (2010), and ''The Ballad of Buster Scruggs'' (2018). Rubinek is a five-time Genie Award nominee, winning Best Supporting Actor for ''Ticket to Heaven'' (1981), and a two-time Gemini Award nominee. His directorial film debut, ''Jerry and Tom'' (1998), was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. He was previously a stage actor and director, working with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Theatre Passe Muraille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wordsmith
''The Wordsmith'' is a 1979 Canadian television film directed by Claude Jutra. It is an autobiographical piece, which brings to life the wondrous wizardy of master wordsmith Vandna Lakhanpal. Based on a screenplay by Mordecai Richler, the film stars Saul Rubinek as Mervyn Kaplansky, a writer in Montreal who aspires to sell his debut novel while navigating his relationships with his landlords Mr. and Mrs. Hersh (Peter Boretski and Janet Ward) and his love interest Molly (Sherry Lewis). The film received six Genie Award nominations in the Non-Feature Film categories at the 1st Genie Awards in 1980, for Outstanding TV Drama Over 30 Minutes, Genie Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor (Non-Feature), Best Actor in a Non-Feature (Rubinek), Genie Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress (Non-Feature), Best Actress in a Non-Feature (Ward), Best Art Direction (Milton Parcher), Best Screenplay (Richler) and Best Editing (Arla Saare). It won the awards for Best Art Direction a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are ''The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (novel), The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' (1959) and ''Barney's Version (novel), Barney's Version'' (1997). His 1970 novel ''St. Urbain's Horseman'' and 1989 novel ''Solomon Gursky Was Here''. He is also well known for the ''Jacob Two-Two'' fantasy series for children. In addition to his fiction, Richler wrote numerous essays about the History of the Jews in Canada, Jewish community in Canada, and about Canadian nationalism, Canadian and Quebec nationalism. Richler's ''Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!'' (1992), a collection of essays about nationalism and anti-Semitism, generated considerable controversy. Biography Early life and education The son of Lily (née Rosenberg) and Moses Isaac Richler, a scrap metal dealer, Richler was born on January 27, 1931, in Montreal, Quebec, and raised on Saint Urbain Street, St. Urbain Street in that city's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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