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[VicHockeyFan]

Where, exactly, does the box office revenue for his films come from, then?

[Edit: never mind. There's no citation, so it must be just your opinion]

http://www.boxoffice...=atomegoyan.htm

Investors lose money on his films.

[VicHockeyFan]

Between him and Paul Gross, nobody has taken so many tax dollars to produce so many films that hardly anyone has seen.

[Benezet]

Investors lose money on his films.

I know, and that's true of a great many films. My point is that you declared paid attendance for his films to be zero, which is ridiculous.

[Benezet]

Speaking of not turning a profit:

http://www.slashfilm...-made-a-profit/

[Bingo]

Oh he's won lots of awards. He's very popular with the critics, just not with anyone that pays for a movie ticket.

 

We paid to see Remember at the Odeon a few weeks ago, along with a couple of hundred others.

[VicHockeyFan]

Well it has not been released in the US yet.

[Bingo]

Many people from the region are saddened by the demise of Harriet, who was not a Victorian, but probably knew someone who knew someone from Victoria.

 

Harriet, a 14-year-old Vancouver Island marmot, died at the Calgary Zoo on Christmas Eve.

Harriet was the oldest marmot in captivity and the last of the first group brought in from the wild to be part of a captive breeding program to ensure the survival of her species. -

See more at: http://www.timescolo...h.Uz0fr0EA.dpuf

 

 

[amor de cosmos]

emily carr makes the bank of canada's longlist
http://www.bclocalne.../379274081.html
http://www.bankofcan...s/banknoteable/

[amor de cosmos]

nellie mcclung leads the pack, carr is 5th
http://business.fina...note-poll-finds

i don't know why they would pick out just one of the famous five for the longlist, especially the committed eugenicist among them. so there's that against her. I forgot that she lived here for a bit too. i think if anything all five should count as one person (haha) on the longlist. as with a lot of things though this seems to be more about name recognition. if people knew anything, pauline johnson would have already been picked. or cecilia krieger, who didn't even make the longlist.

Edited by amor de cosmos, 19 May 2016 - 09:19 AM.

[Rob Randall]

His Holiness Sakya Trizin is visiting Victoria this week.

 

I know, I was thinking the same thing.

[Mystic-Pizza]

Pamela Anderson used to work for Tourism Victoria, before being discovered at a BC Lions football game.
Meg Tilly owns a house on Beach Drive
Colin Firth has kids who live here, and he lives here part time (apparently likes to frequent the Oak Bay Starbucks)

Meg Tilly's grandmother was my grade 1 teacher.

[Bingo]

Meg Tilly's grandmother was my grade 1 teacher.

 

 

My sister's ex-husband knew someone who went to Esquimalt School, but doesn't remember Meg Tilly's grandmother from those days.

[Rob Randall]

I hadn't heard this one before. from yesterday's New York Times:

 

“I know my mom was unhappy that he sold our beachfront property on Vancouver Island,” Chris Lewis [son of Jerry Lewis] recalled.

 

But where, exactly? If you don't want to read the article, basically Jerry Lewis made this movie about a clown in the Holocaust and it became the most legendary unreleased movie of all time because it sounds so terrible and Jerry had to sell properties to cover losses.

Edited by Rob Randall, 29 December 2018 - 08:26 PM.

[Mike K.]

A clown in the holocaust? Wowzers. Would it have been set in Poland?

[Rob Randall]

Yep. Auschwitz. A slapstick comedy/drama set in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. 

[Mike K.]

Oh my...

[FawltyVic]

Yep. Auschwitz. A slapstick comedy/drama set in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

I wonder if Roberto Benigni's "Life is Beautiful" was influenced by Lewis' film?

[G-Man]

^Exactly what I was thinking. Lewis had what was either a total flop or best picture.

[Rob Randall]

According to Wikipedia the two movies are not related, Benigni's having been inspired by two different true stories. There's tons of great stories online regarding "The Day the Clown Cried" including Patton Oswalt's hilariously failed attempt to do a free stage reading of the original script.

 

Anyway, regarding the property, who knows for sure exactly where Jerry's property was. The claim was a childhood memory of his son. We know how bad people's knowledge of this area is--it could have actually been on Bowen Island or one of the Gulf Islands for all we know. 

[Victoria Watcher]

anybody know who currently owns coal island off swartz bay?

 

 

 

 

wouldn't it be something if it turns out it's the guy that married that hologram.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 30 December 2018 - 11:57 AM.