Tom McCamus, Gabriel Hogan, Joanne Kelly (10/05 Heyday)
Excerpt from Playback 10/10/05: Tom McCamus, Joanne Kelly (Kim in "The Future Revealed"), Gabriel Hogan (Josh Marcus in "Crossroads of the Soul") | Heyday
Pinsent gets personal with wartime MOW
October 10, 2005 by Playback Staff
Gander, NF: In Gordon Pinsent’s Heyday!, a young man trying to buoy the spirits of his dying mother uses his imagination to recreate, in their modest Newfoundland home, the glamorous scenes playing out at a nearby hotel.
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The cast also includes Peter MacNeill, Tom McCamus and Joanne Kelly. Pinsent and his daughter Leah, along with Greg Malone, Mark McKinney and Gabriel Hogan, also appear.
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Excerpt from Jam!Canoe Television 3/26/06: Tom McCamus, Joanne Kelly (Kim in "The Future Revealed"), Gabriel Hogan (Josh Marcus in "Crossroads of the Soul")
Heyday of work for Pinsent
By BILL BRIOUX -- Toronto Sun
Could Gordon Pinsent be any busier? Like another 75-year-old Canadian-born actor -- Boston Legal's William Shatner -- Pinsent's never been busier. Reached on the Toronto set of his next project, Sarah Polley's directorial debut Away From Her, the Newfoundland native is "pleased as hell" to be right in the thick of it. "I've been working with the best of families, great, lively crews who have been working so hard to help me get my small dreams to screen."
Two of those dreams are ready to roll. On April 13, CBC airs Yours, Al, Pinsent's one-man salute to Canadian poet Al Purdy. Tonight at 8 p.m., CBC airs an even more personal project: Heyday!, a slice of Pinsent's early life growing up near "The Gateway to the World At War," the famous Gander, Nfld., air base.
Pinsent, who wrote and directed the project, remembers the end of World War II as a golden time backed by a big-band beat. Adam Butcher (St. Ralph) stars as Pinsent's teenage alter ego, Terry Fleming. Peter MacNeill (A History Of Violence) plays Terry's father, with Joanne Kelly (who "plays chords in every scene," says Pinsent) vamping it up as a local distraction. Deidre Gilliard-Rowlings (Terry's gravely ill mother), Mark McKinney, Gabriel Hogan, Greg Malone, Pinsent's daughter Leah and Tom McCamus all steal scenes.
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The movie is filled with little personal touches, like the time young Terry is face down on the upstairs floor, eavesdropping on his dad and the doctor through a grated hot air register (which leaves an impression on his cheek). "We used it all the time," he says, "like when we were too young to come down for Christmas. It worked for listening and for heat."
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Excerpt from Canada.com 3/27/06: Tom McCamus
Prison Break suspense will drive you stir crazy
By Times Colonist (Victoria) March 27, 2006
The results are only partially convincing but the '40s milieu, credible performances by Joanne Kelly, Tom McCamus, Leah Pinsent as a movie starlet and Mark McKinney as a Bob Hope-like comedian, and the clear-cut morality of the times, when right was right and wrong was definitely wrong, distinguish Heyday! from much of what else is on TV at the moment.
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