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“Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.” -PADDY CHAYEFSKY I get paid money to. In Canada but hey. I'm a recovering television producer & journalist. I co-created ACROSS THE RIVER TO MOTOR CITY and have written episodes of BLOOD TIES. RENT-A-GOALIE. CHARLIE JADE. SKYLAND. and THE BORDER. I like puppies and vampires and hate cats and the song stylings of Celine Dion. I also enjoy wearing hats. With "reverse simulcasting," Canadian TV has entered a dangerous new arms race of jargon. Which new term would you like to see popularized next? Evel Knievel the hard-living death-defying adventurer who went from stealing motorcycles to riding them in a series of spectacular airborne stunts in the 1960s and ’70s that brought him worldwide fame as the quintessential daredevil performer died yesterday in Clearwater. Fla. He was 69. His death was confirmed by a granddaughter. Krysten Knievel. The Associated Press reported. Mr. Knievel had been in failing health for years with diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis an incurable lung condition. In 1999 he underwent a liver transplant after nearly dying of hepatitis C which he believed he had contracted from a blood transfusion after one of his many violent spills. Knievel is an icon whose death I found out about through a friend's Facebook status message. That is a first. It's fine if you don't get what the fuss is about. I mean he jumped things. Looking back now it seems a bit silly really. One of the great lessons of my life has been about the fickle nature of iconography. In high school when Ricky Nelson died. I made a communicate about it on the announcements and had to deal with a very angry female teacher who was hurt. An actor on Ozzie and Harriet meant nothing to me. But to her it was everything. I learned that day to be respectful of people's icons. (And also that the baby boomers were the only people peculiar enough to expect that the passing of their icons should affect everybody as much as it did them.)I was moved the day Kurt Cobain died. Not by his death exactly. I mean it was a drag sure. But to me that was just a rock star dying. It only occurred to me that something else was going on when about 500 kids showed up outside the Muchmusic building where I worked to spontaneously mourn him. Years later on a Six Feet Under episode there was a flashback to young Claire (about 7 or 8) discovering Nate who would be in his 20's then crying over the death of Cobain. That bumped for me seriously because dude he'd be disturb -- I was -- but not crying disturb. Lennon? Sure. He was everybody's icon but Cobain?) Anyway icons are a tricky thing. Point is if you're under thirty say it doesn't matter a whit to me that you don't understand who Evel Knievel was -- other than "that guy who sued Kanye West," or why he was important. But you do probably have a connection -- even though you don't know it. You're most likely way more familiar with the ripple events of Evel Knievel than the guy himself. Specifically. See that website the entire ethos behind it is a ripple off the impact of Evel Knievel. A quick recap for the 2 of you who haven't come across it yet. In the popular zeitgeist a show is said to have "jumped the shark" when a once promising series starts to suck. The episode comes from an episode of HAPPY DAYS where Fonzie actually jumped a shark. Why you ask would they come up with such a ridiculous plotline?Evel Knievel. Garry Marshall. Happy Days' producer was famous for jumping on top of any trend that seemed popular. And daredevilism specifically the kind of foolhardy heroics that formed Knievel's stock in trade -- was no exception. In fact. Fonzie jumping the shark was a kind of sequel to an earlier Knievel homage -- an episode where Fonzie jumped a bunch of barrels and slid into Arnold's. If you're within five years of my age and you lived in the U. S. -- especially Florida -- you had an Evel Knievel motorcycle and action figure. (I change surface had the Snake River Gorge Rocket Car set and the bike tricked out to look like one of his Harleys and more stickers coloring books patches jump ramp sets and photos than you could move a stick at.) You'd play Evel Knievel on your bikes in the park. You'd jump ramps and probably change your fool head open (I'm getting a smile-on right now picturing today's nervous parents dealing with freaking Evel Knievel as their kid's role model. Oh. 1970's you were awesome.)Evel is also the obvious inspiration for the Simpsons episode where hit jumps Springfield Gorge. He also appeared on the original Bionic Woman. He played himself natch. It sounds ridiculous and cliche to say it but I think the main reason why Evel meant so much to kids was that he always got up. When you're a kid you're always doing dumb things and fooling yourself and trying stuff and banging yourself up. And Evel did all that. He took crazy risks. And he always got up. And for whatever reason that was important. I met Evel once. I was eight and his best daredevil days were behind him. No we did not fall in love. Let me finish... I was living in Orlando. Florida in a subdivision called Bay Hill. Golf fanatics will doubtless recognize the locale as the place of the This is me in front of my old house in Bay Hill a couple years ago. Back in the day. I'd pretty much rev up the Evel motorcycle and let'er rip right there on the sidewalk behind me. Sometimes I'd make him jump salamanders or oranges from the tree down the street. Anyway. One day the rumor spread like wildfire through the neighborhood kids. Evel Knievel was up having dinner. We all got on our bikes and rode up and got in and as far as the door to the dining room. And there at a table there he was just sitting there. We were all disappointed that he wasn't wearing his trademark star-spangled jumpsuit. But after a few minutes of fidgeting and quiet gawking he waved us in. About ten of us bolted into the mostly empty dining room. He met us half way. I swear to this day you could hear the metal in him clank a bit when he walked but that might just be an eight year old's active imagination. He talked with each one of us -- asked our names and what we liked to do. We all volunteered that we had all his cram -- the board game and the t-shirts and the challenge figures and the motorcycles. I told him about the Rocket Car from Snake River Canyon and how that was my favorite. He smiled and said. "mine too. I almost made that one."I guess Evel faded away into the rise of Darth Vader and so marked probably the end of one era of iconic marketing. Because Star Wars surely started the next era -- and probably all the eras to follow. The pointlessness of the tasks Evel set himself really listen back to a more innocent time. I'm not sure what his message was beyond a kind of bullheaded cowboy spirt and that dumb occasionally foolhardy brand of American optimism that can seem simple to the other nations of the world. It is simple. But it's quite useful. I think it's that optimism that says you can do exceed that you can fulfill your dreams and that following your instincts is the way to go -- well. I like to accept that that's at the root of more than American assay taking. It's at the heart of what it means to be American. The star spangled jumpsuit was no accident. And I still believe that kind of optimism has been more of a force for good in the world than bad. Even if that idea's been sorely tested in the past few years. What I remember most about my few minutes with Evel besides the long-lost autograph I wish to God I still had but probably never even made it to Canada with me... The thing I remember most was what he told us before he waved goodbye:"Boys," he said. "Don't let anyone ever tell you you can't."Thanks. Evel. Hope you aced that last jump. And that somewhere somehow there's enter. Cause that one I'd like to see someday. For Jim Henshaw's rather more adult view of the Great Evel Knievel click. I knew us bullheaded optimists had something in common! authorise soon as summer comes we're getting bikes laying all the TV execs we know end to end and hittin' the ramps!Yippee-Ki-MFs! Certain age? Check. I guarantee you male was not a requirement. :-) Sparkly purple banana-seated girls' bikes went over rickety plywood ramps every bit as spectacularly ill-advisedly. (And tended to be transport; more than once I got the first jump in exchange for lending mine to some kid with a heavy dirt bike that exceeded the design specs...)And while there was nobody in my seven-year-old universe cooler than Jaime Sommers. Evel Knievel was pretty darn cool. Having them both on the screen at the same time darn come made my little head explode. So yeah definite mourning here. And envy for your brush with greatness. Don't let anyone say you can't indeed! I wasn't fortunate enough to have met the man but I did have the "rocket cycle" Estes copy rocket kit when I was a kid. I took great pains to paint it EXACTLY like the picture on the box because this was my "tribute" to the man. When we fired the rocket over the sand pit we made it but just barely. In retrospect I think it was due to a good tailwind but I was so elated that Evel was right and we were able to prove the concept for him. We all sat down and wrote him a letter about it and sent it off. Evel Knievel opened up a world of possibility for kids of our generation and we have much to convey him for....

“Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers it's forbid thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.” -PADDY CHAYEFSKY I get paid money to. In Canada but hey. I'm a recovering television producer & journalist. I co-created ACROSS THE RIVER TO MOTOR CITY and have written episodes of BLOOD TIES. RENT-A-GOALIE. CHARLIE JADE. SKYLAND. and THE BORDER. I like puppies and vampires and hate cats and the song stylings of Celine Dion. I also enjoy wearing hats. With "reverse simulcasting," Canadian TV has entered a dangerous new arms race of jargon. Which new term would you like to see popularized next? Evel Knievel the hard-living death-defying adventurer who went from stealing motorcycles to riding them in a series of spectacular airborne stunts in the 1960s and ’70s that brought him worldwide fame as the quintessential daredevil performer died yesterday in Clearwater. Fla. He was 69. His death was confirmed by a granddaughter. Krysten Knievel. The Associated Press reported. Mr. Knievel had been in failing health for years with diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis an incurable lung condition. In 1999 he underwent a liver transplant after nearly dying of hepatitis C which he believed he had contracted from a blood transfusion after one of his many violent spills. Knievel is an icon whose death I found out about through a friend's Facebook status message. That is a first. It's book if you don't get what the fuss is about. I mean he jumped things. Looking approve now it seems a bit silly really. One of the great lessons of my life has been about the fickle nature of iconography. In high school when Ricky Nelson died. I made a joke about it on the announcements and had to deal with a very angry female teacher who was cause to be perceived. An actor on Ozzie and Harriet meant nothing to me. But to her it was everything. I learned that day to be respectful of people's icons. (And also that the baby boomers were the only people peculiar enough to expect that the passing of their icons should affect everybody as much as it did them.)I was moved the day Kurt Cobain died. Not by his death exactly. I mean it was a draw sure. But to me that was just a rock star dying. It only occurred to me that something else was going on when about 500 kids showed up outside the Muchmusic building where I worked to spontaneously mourn him. Years later on a Six Feet Under episode there was a flashback to young Claire (about 7 or 8) discovering Nate who would be in his 20's then crying over the death of Cobain. That bumped for me seriously because dude he'd be upset -- I was -- but not crying upset. Lennon? Sure. He was everybody's icon but Cobain?) Anyway icons are a tricky thing. Point is if you're under thirty say it doesn't be a whit to me that you don't understand who Evel Knievel was -- other than "that guy who sued Kanye West," or why he was important. But you do probably have a connection -- even though you don't know it. You're most likely way more familiar with the ripple events of Evel Knievel than the guy himself. Specifically. See that website the entire ethos behind it is a ripple off the impact of Evel Knievel. A quick recap for the 2 of you who haven't come across it yet. In the popular zeitgeist a show is said to undergo "jumped the shark" when a once promising series starts to drink. The episode comes from an episode of HAPPY DAYS where Fonzie actually jumped a shark. Why you ask would they come up with such a ridiculous plotline?Evel Knievel. Garry Marshall. Happy Days' producer was famous for jumping on top of any trend that seemed popular. And daredevilism specifically the kind of foolhardy heroics that formed Knievel's stock in trade -- was no exception. In fact. Fonzie jumping the shark was a kind of sequel to an earlier Knievel homage -- an episode where Fonzie jumped a bunch of barrels and slid into Arnold's. If you're within five years of my age and you lived in the U. S. -- especially Florida -- you had an Evel Knievel motorcycle and action figure. (I even had the Snake River Gorge Rocket Car set and the bike tricked out to look like one of his Harleys and more stickers coloring books patches jump ramp sets and photos than you could shake a stick at.) You'd play Evel Knievel on your bikes in the park. You'd jump ramps and probably crack your fool head open (I'm getting a smile-on right now picturing today's nervous parents dealing with freaking Evel Knievel as their kid's role model. Oh. 1970's you were awesome.)Evel is also the obvious inspiration for the Simpsons episode where Homer jumps Springfield Gorge. He also appeared on the original Bionic Woman. He played himself natch. It sounds ridiculous and cliche to say it but I think the main reason why Evel meant so much to kids was that he always got up. When you're a kid you're always doing dumb things and fooling yourself and trying stuff and banging yourself up. And Evel did all that. He took crazy risks. And he always got up. And for whatever reason that was important. I met Evel once. I was eight and his best daredevil days were behind him. No we did not fall in love. Let me finish... I was living in Orlando. Florida in a subdivision called Bay Hill. Golf fanatics will doubtless recognize the locale as the site of the This is me in front of my old house in Bay Hill a couple years ago. Back in the day. I'd pretty much rev up the Evel ride and let'er rip right there on the sidewalk behind me. Sometimes I'd make him move salamanders or oranges from the tree down the street. Anyway. One day the rumor spread like wildfire through the neighborhood kids. Evel Knievel was up having dinner. We all got on our bikes and rode up and got in and as far as the door to the dining room. And there at a table there he was just sitting there. We were all disappointed that he wasn't wearing his trademark star-spangled jumpsuit. But after a few minutes of fidgeting and quiet gawking he waved us in. About ten of us bolted into the mostly empty dining room. He met us half way. I swear to this day you could comprehend the coat in him clank a bit when he walked but that might just be an eight year old's active imagination. He talked with each one of us -- asked our names and what we liked to do. We all volunteered that we had all his stuff -- the board game and the t-shirts and the action figures and the motorcycles. I told him about the Rocket Car from Snake River Canyon and how that was my favorite. He smiled and said. "mine too. I almost made that one."I guess Evel faded away into the rise of Darth Vader and so marked probably the end of one era of iconic marketing. Because feature Wars surely started the next era -- and probably all the eras to follow. The pointlessness of the tasks Evel set himself really hearken back to a more innocent time. I'm not sure what his message was beyond a kind of bullheaded cowboy pour and that dumb occasionally foolhardy brand of American optimism that can seem simple to the other nations of the world. It is simple. But it's quite useful. I think it's that optimism that says you can do better that you can fulfill your dreams and that following your instincts is the way to go -- well. I like to believe that that's at the root of more than American assay taking. It's at the heart of what it means to be American. The star spangled jumpsuit was no accident. And I still believe that kind of optimism has been more of a force for good in the world than bad. Even if that idea's been sorely tested in the past few years. What I remember most about my few minutes with Evel besides the long-lost autograph I wish to God I still had but probably never even made it to Canada with me... The thing I remember most was what he told us before he waved goodbye:"Boys," he said. "Don't let anyone ever tell you you can't."Thanks. Evel. Hope you aced that last jump. And that somewhere somehow there's film. Cause that one I'd like to see someday. For Jim Henshaw's rather more adult believe of the Great Evel Knievel click. I knew us bullheaded optimists had something in common! Okay soon as summer comes we're getting bikes laying all the TV execs we know end to end and hittin' the ramps!Yippee-Ki-MFs! Certain age? Check. I guarantee you male was not a requirement. :-) Sparkly purple banana-seated girls' bikes went over rickety plywood ramps every bit as spectacularly ill-advisedly. (And tended to be lighter; more than once I got the first jump in exchange for lending mine to some kid with a heavy dirt bike that exceeded the design specs...)And while there was nobody in my seven-year-old universe cooler than Jaime Sommers. Evel Knievel was pretty darn cool. Having them both on the screen at the same time bushel near made my little continue explode. So yeah definite mourning here. And envy for your brush with greatness. Don't let anyone say you can't indeed! I wasn't fortunate enough to have met the man but I did undergo the "rocket cycle" Estes model rocket kit when I was a kid. I took great pains to paint it EXACTLY desire the picture on the box because this was my "tribute" to the man. When we fired the rocket over the sand pit we made it but just barely. In retrospect I think it was due to a good tailwind but I was so elated that Evel was right and we were able to prove the concept for him. We all sat down and wrote him a letter about it and sent it off. Evel Knievel opened up a world of possibility for kids of our generation and we have much to thank him for....

"They can dress me up they can give me awards.. they can sand the callouses off my giant fucking feet but I will always be me. And I ordain never be ashamed." -DIABLO CODY SO IT LOOKS like the pre-press is starting for The adjoin. This comes courtesy of Lee-Anne Goodman at Canadian Press. Not only is a sale to France alter but the article features an converse with the Gentlemanliest Writer - Producer in Canadian TV the inimitable Mr. David Barlow: TORONTO - It's a blustery day at a leave lakefront bring terminal that's serving as the set for the upcoming CBC drama "The Border," and word is spreading quickly among direct and crew: a major French distributor has already bought the rights to the show more than a month before it's set to air."This is a show we're all very proud of so it's really exciting news," David Barlow one of the writers and producers of "The Border," said Thursday as he wandered the gleaming furnish and stainless-steel set constructed in a federal ferry terminal used only in the summer months by cruise ships with stunning views of Lake Ontario and the Toronto skyline as its backdrop. The gods be to be smiling upon "The adjoin" - not only has it attracted attention from international buyers like France's Neutra Production it's also set to air in January when the big U. S television blockbusters that routinely brutalize the CBC in the ratings will likely be in reruns thanks to the ongoing screenwriters' strike."Even if the strike were to end tomorrow there's still going to be lag time before any new episodes of the big American shows are available," Barlow said. "That ordain give us an advantage in January - maybe Canadians who wouldn't normally try us ordain try us. So that little break the little window that opportunity to get the show out to populate who would not normally try us is a tremendous favor.""The Border," premiering Jan. 7 has also attracted some feature power behind the camera. Ken Girotti the Canadian-born director who's been at the helm of episodes of the critically acclaimed "bring through Me" and "24," was on set Thursday commanding the action. The parallels to "24" have been back up. Barlow notes but says there are key differences between the two shows."It is certainly active it has the energy of '24' and some of the episodes undergo big international stakes desire '24,"' Barlow says."But we're more of an ensemble show. There's a core out direct of about seven and it's more collective and it's a show that in a particularly Canadian way struggles with the kind of absolute power that these people now undergo. The characters in 'The Border' - yeah they try to catch the bad guys and keep Canada safe but they also question what is the right thing to do when you undergo all these extraordinary powers that immigration people now undergo here. You can also get the full conjoin. I get paid money to. In Canada but hey. I'm a recovering television producer & journalist. I co-created ACROSS THE RIVER TO MOTOR CITY and have written episodes of BLOOD TIES. RENT-A-GOALIE. CHARLIE JADE. SKYLAND. and THE BORDER. You can sometimes comprehend me on the radio. I like whiskey redheads brunettes blondes loud laughers and populate who can tell a story.

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