Hockey Night in Canada Tribute to Paul Quarrington on Sat. Jan 23, 2010

Because my beautiful multi-dimensional friend bloody deserves it, here here Dave Bidini! Thank you Tim Thomson! You've gained a new fan of that crazy game Mr. MacLean!

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Hockey Night in Canada Tribute to Paul Quarrington on Sat. Jan 23, 2010

A tribute to Paul Quarrington will air in the opening segment before the 7pm (ET) games on CBC Hockey Night in Canada, Saturday, January 23, 2010. It will air at approximately 7:00-7:05 pm ET - before the puck drops on the early games (it's a floating time, as the pre-game show goes before it). The segment will include the Rheostatics song "Dope Fiends and Booze Hounds" from that bands album release 'Whale Music.'

Tim Thompson, show writer, describes the opening as "pretty awesome, if I do say so. It's Dope Fiends as the soundtrack, with various quotes from Paul's hockey prose threading the piece, set to hockey footage from the two games we

have on - Toronto vs Florida and Montreal vs the Rangers." Host Ron MacLean will pay tribute to Paul either before or after the piece runs.

The on-air tribute was the brainchild of Thompson, who is a long-time friend Dave Bidini, inspired by Bidini's writings on hockey, including "The Best Game You Can Name" and Dave's writings about knowing Paul. Tim contacted Bidini to

help out with the idea. Bidini reports "I have known Tim for many years and he plays on the Morningstars, my hockey team. He told me that he was thinking about this idea as a way of toasting Paul." Tim reports that Ron MacLean simultaneously had the same idea, so it came together naturally.

Says Bidini "When I think of what Paul meant to so many people who loved hockey, and who like to write about the game, and how he loved the Leafs...The hockey nation can mourn as one on Saturday night, the best night. It's overwhelming. He so f*%ing deserves this. I suggested before that Paul will be watching on high with Teeder Kennedy. I realize now that it's gotta be little King (Clancy) Leary or no one."


(For more information about Paul Quarrington, visit www.paulquarrington.org. To donate to Quarrington Arts Society, visit www.quarringtonartsociety.ca)

Paul Gross Joins Luminaries On Stage for Quarrington Celebration

www.bookshorts.com/blog ... Actor / Writer / Director Paul Gross will be flying back to Toronto from the set of "Eastwick" to appear in-person for the "life and work" tribute Paul Quarrington: A Life in Music, Words, and on Screen, He will speak to their screen work together including Whale Music, Men with Brooms, Due South and more. The event will also present filmed tributes from friends such as Jim Cuddy, Robert Lantos, Richard A Lewis, and Michael Ondaatje, and a preview of the upcoming Quarrington documentary film directed by Bert Kish. The event takes place Saturday, October 24 at 3pm, Brigantine Room.

For more information, visit Harbourfront IFOA website

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Media Contacts:

Lindsay Gulin: lgulin@harbourfrontcentre.com; 416-973-4395
Becky Toyne: btoyne@harbourfrontcentre.com; 416-973-5836
Judith Keenan: judith@bookshorts.com, 416-843-4425

Paul Quarrington - The Continuing Story

Festival Presenters at Moving Stories Film Preview

www.movingstoriesfilmfest.com -- The consensus is growing - books on film help reach new audiences, and are an exciting way to bring readers to books. Moving Stories Film Fest proposes to do just that, and at the recent BookExpo Canada, MSFF Programmer Paul Quarrington had the opportunity to get one-on-one with the festivals presenters that will be orchestrating the short film program across the country this fall. Festival Advisor Nino Ricci and Anne Collins were there too, champions of the initiative to support authors' work on screen; as is author Susan Swan whose novel What Casanova Told Me was the very first to be adapted as for BookShorts.


Shot live at BookExpo Canada, Moving Stories Film Fest Preview event, June 15, 2008.  Paul Quarrington With Anne Green, Charlene Diehl, Hal Wake, Kelly Davis, Susan Swan, and Judith Keenan with Nino Ricci.