JP Larocque

It made me so grateful for Raimi, in the way I was grateful for Lynch. Those directors who still have permission to be weird or over the top because they’ve earned that trust.

I loved Send Help.

The customer is always right!*

*unless the product is an app or program, in which case the tech oligarchs are right and you will have to use artificial intelligence regardless of environmental destruction, misinformation, privacy concerns, and the elimination of human jobs.

Says you! You’re not the boss of me!

-6 degrees Celsius and sunny in Toronto so the miniskirts are out.

“Rest in peace, JP Larocque. What memories we made together.”

I hope that one day I attain a level of fame that, upon my passing, every person who has ever taken a photo with me will post it on social media for death clout.

There’s also a version of me who wouldn’t have survived those early years. So thank you to the protectors — on this plane and elsewhere.

I’ll always be grateful I’m queer because it was the crack in the surface of an unhappy family life that ultimately let the light in.

The thing that bothers me so much about Carney's joke about greenlighting the Heated Rivalry show is that it furthers the narrative that it's a needle in a haystack. Anyone who reads Canadian books and watches Canadian film knows that we could have dozens more HRs with enough funding.

There's also been little reporting on the fact the CRTC recently released new Canadian Content guidelines they've spun as more "flexible," but actually mean Canadian-owned projects can hire more non-Canadians as writers and directors and still access the financial incentives that make them possible.

A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr

She also hit niches. Comedy diehards loved her because of SCTV and Chris Guest. Beetlejuice and Home Alone made her a fixture of millennial childhoods. Schitt's Creek made her beloved by gays. I also think her performance as Moira became a balm to many during the pandemic.

Someone referred to Catherine O'Hara's passing as a "Robin Williams-level loss" and they really hit on something. To be a performer associated with so many childhoods, who only gets better, and manages to remain private and avoid controversy... You can see why this is impacting so many people.

Damn you.

Polaroids of Catherine O'Hara in various costumes

Polaroids of Catherine O'Hara in various costumes

Catherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔

Let us not forget that Catherine O'Hara was hired for "Saturday Night Live," spent a week there, decided it sucked, quit, and went back to Canada to make more shows with her friends.

I think I'm going to stay off of the Internet today because the death of Catherine O'Hara is a really quite sad.
It's a cliche to say the good ones go first, but wow did the world just lose a very bright light.

Learn from this! Instead of chasing projects that can’t compete with high-budget American gloss or UK detective grit, create something risky, fun, and uniquely Canadian. A distinctive POV, an envelope push.

The Canadian screen industry is always quick to pile on a success story but rarely quick to acknowledge the pervasive apathy, complacency, and general lack of risk that keep more of those success stories from happening.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness

i just lol'ed for like 30 seconds, amazing work everyone

I'll always be grateful I saw Sinners in theatres if just to have experienced that dance floor scene with the full power of cinema behind it.

Look — I’ve met a million hot Scotts, but not a single hot Richard.

God, to have a snark mediator.

He's not even the worst one! Just the most openly pathetic and irritating.

Gurl, yes please

*This* is my extended family. We were literally eight feet from my grandmother's open casket, at her funeral. And they wonder why I've avoided all of them for two full decades.

He clarified he doesn't have political leanings "either way" but that Poilievre studied international relations in university, which is a "bullshit degree." When I then stood up to greet my aunt, who noted my height, he said: "Oh, he's wearing platforms. He's 5"11." (I'm not.)

At my grandmother's funeral, my cousin stood by us in the front pew and prattled on about his job, then asked if I'd written or produced any shows he "would have heard of." I told him I do a lot of work for the CBC, to which he glibly responded I "better hope that Poilievre doesn't get elected."