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	INTERVIEW: "Last Night," Don McKellar's Intimate Armageddon
		McKellar casts himself as a sarcastic young man who just wants to be alone his last night on earth and his biggest dilemma is deciding what CD to play.
		McKellar: Well the kind of characters that I wanted to follow were those who had dealt with it.
		McKellar: Clearly the most important thing is to have a cast and crew that is sympathetic to that situation.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_McKellar_Don_991108.html (1208 words)

	Don McKellar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Donald "Don" McKellar (born August 17, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actor, writer, and filmmaker.
		McKellar collaborated again with McDonald for his 1991 film Highway 61, writing the screenplay and playing the starring role as the barber Pokey Jones.
		McKellar's most recent collaboration with McDonald spawned the cult classic television series Twitch City, in which McKellar played the starring role of Curtis, a television addict and shut-in.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don_McKellar (437 words)

	Last Night - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Last Night tells the story of how a variety of characters spending their remaining evening on Earth: the world is to end at midnight (Eastern Standard Time) as the result of a calamity that is not explained, but which has been expected for several months.
		A power company worker (David Cronenberg) spends the majority of his final day calling up every single one of his customers to reassure them that their heating gas will be kept on until the very end.
		Meanwhile, his wife Sandra Oh prepares to fulfill their suicide pact when she becomes stranded with a depressed widower (Don McKellar) preparing to die while listening to music on his roof, surrounded by mementoes of his recently deceased wife.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Last_Night (352 words)

	Don McKellar - Northern Stars
		In 1994 Don was approached by the then-head of the CBC, Ivan Fecan, who suggested that he should write something for television.
		Don starred as Curtis, a neurotic couch potato and the new King of Kensington.
		Don thought all the attention he received was pretty hilarious, kind of embarrassing, but sort of cool, which is just the kind of reaction you'd expect from a true Canadian 'Renaissance Man'.
	www.northernstars.ca /actorsmno/mckellarbio.html (1136 words)

	Don McKellar - Biography - Moviefone
		Actor, screenwriter, and director Don McKellar is one of the most prolific and well-respected members of the Canadian film industry.
		McKellar was born in Toronto on August 17, 1963.
		McKellar reprised his actor-writer role for the film, starring as the lead character, a barber who finds a corpse.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/don-mckellar/102184/biography (588 words)

	CTV.ca \| Don McKellar takes on his bete noire: Hollywood
		Don McKellar's Childstar is the kind of satirical movie so many Canadians love to love: one that unabashedly revels in its Canadian-ness while taking a few shots at our neighbours to the south.
		McKellar's character, Rick Schiller, is a former cinema studies professor and aspiring avant-garde filmmaker who takes a job as a chauffeur for the young star who's on a mission to grow up as fast as possible.
		A lot of people said 'You're working with a child, you have to give them extra time, and it's going to be difficult for them to memorize their lines.' But from the first day, it was clear my child star was the most professional guy on the crew, the most professional cast member.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1107447088720_102856288?hub=Entertainment (640 words)

	Don McKellar @ Filmbug
		In addition to cowriting the screenplay of THE RED VIOLIN, Canadian actor and screenwriter Don McKellar appears in the role of Williams.
		McKellar is best known to international audiences for his role as the pet shop owner in Atom Egoyan's EXOTICA for which he received a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor.
		McKellar made his directorial debut with LAST NIGHT, also produced by Rhombus and soon to be released in the U.S. by Lions Gate, which he also wrote and starred in.
	www.filmbug.com /db/3280 (236 words)

	waydowntown - Don McKellar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		An innovative writer, actor and director himself, Don is a major force in independent film today.
		He has also had his success on the small screen as both an actor and writer with the series "Twitch City" where he stars as Curtis, the television-addicted agoraphobe.
		Don chose to play the part of Brad in waydowntown because of his admiration for Gary Burns' writing skills.
	www.lot47.com /waydowntown/bio_donmckellar.html (258 words)

	Bio for Don McKellar on MSN Movies
		Actor, screenwriter, and director Don McKellar is one of the most prolific and well-respected members of the Canadian film industry.
		McKellar was born in Toronto on August 17, 1963.
		McKellar reprised his actor-writer role for the film, starring as the lead character, a barber who finds a corpse.
	entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?mp=b&c=290025 (550 words)

	Don McKellar News
		There are some Canadians who might consider Don McKellar a bit of a cartoon character to begin with.
		Don McKellar is a fixture of the Canadian film biz, having had a hand, as writer or actor or both, in such diverse projects as Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The Red Violin, and Existenz.
		Don McKellar has been one of the central figures in Canadian filmmaking in the past 15 years as an actor and writer with directors Bruce McDonald, David Cronenberg, Fran ois Girard and Atom Egoyan.
	www.topix.net /who/don-mckellar (500 words)

	GreenCine \| article
		Don McKellar showed up for the nightly reception at the Vancouver International Film Festival without his ID badge.
		McKellar will likely never be a superstar, but those very qualities are what will make him such a fascinating and unpredictable presence both in front of and behind the camera.
		McKellar was happy to talk about everything from his first film to his most recent, Childstar, a quintessentially Canadian film with his distinctive brand of humor.
	www.greencine.com /article?action=view&articleID=190 (2064 words)

	Untitled
		Don McKellar's debut feature, Last Night, is a bit different.
		That may be because McKellar is very much identified with Toronto and knows many of his actors in Last Night, such as Callum Keith Rennie, who starred in McKellar's six-part TV series Twitch City, personally.
		McKellar is very much a modern Renaissance man, whose credits include acting (Atom Egoyan's Exotica, Highway 61 and currently David Cronenberg's eXistenZ), writing (Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The Red Violin) and theatre (The Book of Rejection).
	www.filmfestivals.com /cannes98/best/dirus13.htm (326 words)

	Last Night
		The DJ of the local radio station plays his favorite pop tunes in reverse order, all the while happily assuring his listeners, "We’ll be with you to the very end." A small mob purposefully carries a large statue down the street, and it’s unclear whether it’s a keepsake or a battering ram.
		And when Sandra finds her trashed auto on a deserted street, the perky little bell that chimes as she opens the front door is a bittersweet joke: it’s one of those thinly reassuring touchstones of normality, now failing miserably at its task.
		McKellar with his the flashing eyes and quickened speech patterns could make a convincing full-blown cynic, but his Patrick is conventionally conceived.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/LastNight.htm (1050 words)

	Childstar - Movie Review
		That year, 1998, McKellar caught the eye of the international film audience with his end-of-the-world diary Last Night, and the ambitious epic The Red Violin, which he co-wrote.
		McKellar introduces us to this "child star," the film industry and assorted sycophants in a breezy opening half-hour that includes rich kid hissy fits, a mom (a dreary, uninterested Jennifer Jason Leigh) living off her son's wealth, and Rick's depressing but funny family background.
		McKellar wants to show us Taylor as a pained star with a crappy family, but the complexity and thoughtfulness seen in previous McKellar work is missing.
	excite.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/childstar (540 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| Don McKellar feature (1999)
		Immediately upon meeting Don McKellar, one realizes he's the kind of guy who can turn a quick cup of joe at Starbucks into a probing intellectual debate on just about any topic you chose.
		Instead of focusing on the destruction of the planet, McKellar patiently peels away his characters' thick layers of frayed emotions as he builds an intense but strangely calm atmosphere of Armageddon.
		Don McKellar: Well, that's particularly why I didn't deal with how it was happening, because I'm a bit that way, too, and I didn't want the audience thinking, "Is that possible?" and "Can they do anything about that?" and "Wouldn't that effect the temperature?"
	www.splicedonline.com /features/mckellar.html (1323 words)

	TNMC Movies: Reviews: Last Night
		Sandra (Sandra Oh) is trying to make it home to her husband so they can ring in the end together; Patrick (McKellar) is going to spend his last hours alone, despite his family's wish to be together; and Craig (Callum Keith Rennie) is fulfilling as many sexual fantasies as possible before the big check-out.
		McKellar's performance is typically droll, a bemused and detached character alone in the world.
		McKellar shows us the expected looting and rioting, but perhaps the most chilling moments are the darkly comic episodes of eerie normality.
	www.tnmc.org /ind/lastnight.html (466 words)

	Poor little Childstar - Arts & Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Director McKellar also appears in his own movie playing a sometime filmmaker down on his luck that is hired to drive/chaperone Taylor, who at the ripe old age of 12 already had his own biography.
		McKellar says he didn't necessarily have himself in mind at first when he wrote the part of Rick, though ended up becoming quite close to the character.
		McKellar originally had the idea of using only actual ex-child actors to play the main parts but later changed his mind.
	www.thevarsity.ca /news/2004/09/16/ArtsCulture/Poor-Little.Childstar-720865.shtml (356 words)

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		McKellar seems to be trying to act as though his character feels awkward about the kiss, but he doesn't quite pull it off, or perhaps doesn't quite intend to pull it off.
		Maybe what McKellar means is not that he has "always wanted to" grab Parker's tit, but that he has "always wanted to" grab any tit, never having done so before.
		McKellar scares away undesirable roommates by pretending to be a rapacious homo after their flesh.
	www.cs.toronto.edu /~catherin/twitch.html (913 words)

	Straight.com Vancouver \| Movies \| Childstar Explores Lives of Rich and Bratty
		McKellar came up with the concept for Childstar when he was in Hollywood for the Oscar party for The Red Violin (which he cowrote) and ended up at a DreamWorks bash afterward, where he met the boy who saw dead people.
		McKellar said his biggest challenge on his most ambitious and expensive film to date was finding his title character.
		McKellar auditioned then-15-year-old Rendall (Touching Wild Horses) and was impressed by his performance but also concerned that the Toronto actor was just too darn nice.
	www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=7706 (649 words)

	Twitch
		Don McKellar's opus shot with great style by Bruce McDonald.
		Our protagonist, Curtis, (Don McKellar) is a TV addicted, Frutti O's crunching recluse with a certain cunning as a landlord and a love interest for room mate, Molly Parker.
		Don McKellar's oddly charming character could be diagnosed as agoraphobic.
	www.islandnet.com /mm/fest02/twitch.htm (773 words)

	Last Night Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Canadian actor and Atom Egoyan favorite Don McKellar makes his directorial debut with Last Night, an intimate drama profiling how several people choose to spend the day before the Earth is destroyed.
		That's the conceit of writer-director Don McKellar's Last Night, a surprisingly upbeat Canadian drama that had a limited theatrical run in art houses in 1999 and is now available on a bare-bones DVD.
		McKellar, who previously wrote 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould and The Red Violin, makes his directing debut here.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=129027 (1171 words)

	iFMagazine.com Reviews - LAST NIGHT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Patrick (Don McKellar) grudgingly has supper with his family, after which he plans to go home and spend the rest of the evening in silent contemplation.
		Writer/director McKellar intelligently avoids nearly all of the cliches of the apocalypse genre.
		McKellar’s shrewd decision to keep his protagonists in their comfortable, scruffy middle-class surroundings and on populated but not crowded streets also allows him to design and shoot his film realistically within a budget that is tight but accommodates the story’s needs.
	www.ifmagazine.com /reviews/review.asp?reviewID=276 (702 words)

	Eye - Don McKellar's 100 per cent asteroid-free Last Night - 09.03.98
		And the main character (McKellar) just wants to be alone with the memory of his deceased girlfriend.
		McKellar says the movie also avoids a traditional, Biblical approach to the end of the world, but adds that religion is by no means irrelevant to the film.
		Indeed, the characters find themselves in much the same position many writers found themselves in near the end of the last century, when old proto-existentialist favorites like Nietzsche, Dostoevsky and Conrad dealt with the problem of asserting personal values in the face of the abyss left by the recent departure of God from the scene.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_09.03.98/film/lastnitefilm.html (599 words)

	Toronto Sun: - Eventful life of Don McKellar
		Here's our theory: Don McKellar has been hiding his light under a bushel for too long.
		We say McKellar and Dukakis are devastatingly good as a mother-and-son team in The Event.
		McKellar has seen the red-carpet crowds in France and Spain and other places where the fans go berserk no matter who walks down.
	www.canoe.ca /NewsStand/TorontoSun/Entertainment/2003/10/01/pf-213737.html (456 words)

	Don McKellar
		Born in Toronto, Ontario, McKellar was interested in performing at an early age and began with high school plays.
		McKellar turned to screenwriting when he was approached by Canadian director Bruce McDonald, who was looking for a writer to collaborate on a film.
		McKellar came up with Twitch City, a quirky 14-episode (2 season) sitcom directed by his old friend McDonald and starring McKellar, Callum Keith Rennie, Daniel MacIvor and Molly Parker.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=2847 (378 words)

	Accessibility Plan -- Township of McKellar
		The Township of McKellar is a rural, residential and recreational municipality located on Highway 124 approximately 20 km northeast of the Town of Parry Sound with adjacent municipalities of Seguin, Magnetawan, Whitestone, and McDougall, all within the District of Parry Sound.
		Council and staff of the Township of McKellar will review and monitor the current status of all buildings owned and operated by the municipality and the general policies and procedures of the municipality and identify, remove and prevent barriers to people with disabilities.
		The Township of McKellar recently completed a Strategic Plan and an Official Plan Five Year Review and this process encouraged the public to participate in the open house sessions providing information to Council and staff regarding various issues and concerns which should be addressed.
	www.township.mckellar.on.ca /49/accessibility_plan.htm (672 words)

	Eye - The smart money - 01.27.05
		Don McKellar felt the pressure, too, even though he'd starred in or helped create some of the most significant and successful Canadian films of the last 15 years, including The Red Violin, Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, Exotica, Highway 61 and his own 1999 directorial debut, Last Night.
		As McKellar sees it, much of American culture suffers from the same state of arrested adolescence and overgrown kids like Taylor end up serving as sacrificial lambs.
		McKellar consciously avoided the scrappy aesthetic that automatically confers authenticity on so much art and indie output.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_01.27.05/film/childstar.html (1033 words)

	The Film Reference Library
		Born in 1962, McKellar was raised in north Toronto in an educated family — his father is a lawyer and his mother a teacher — with community interests in the arts and culture.
		McKellar returned to his own idiosyncrasies and urban neighbourhood experiences to write the television series Twitch City (CBC, 1998, 2000), which was directed by Bruce McDonald and also starred McKellar as the local anti-hero, a TV-watching agoraphobic obsessed with talk shows and a cat.
		McKellar’s multiple talents and inspirations (his resumé reveals special personal interests in the clarinet, painting and drawing, magic and cooking) are matched only by his ability to continually collaborate on and produce engaging and provocative work in film, television and theatre.
	www.filmreferencelibrary.ca /index.asp?layid=46&csid1=46&navid=46 (922 words)

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