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  Elwy Yost - CanadianIdentity.com
Yost went on to university, then a stint as an actor and six years at A.V. Roe as an employee counsellor.
Yost was looking for work when an old friend, now a teacher, told him he had a natural gift for teaching.
Elwy Yost has had a varied and fascinating career in education, in public relations and in the entertainment world.
www.canadianidentity.com /wiki/index.php?title=Elwy_Yost&printable=yes   (448 words)

  
  Graham Yost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Graham Yost is a Canadian film and television screenwriter.
His most famous works are the hit 1994 film Speed (despite not actually writing the majority of the character's dialog), Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain.
He is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost, the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Graham_Yost   (135 words)

  
 Elwy Yost: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Elwy Yost's summary was automatically generated using 2 references found on the Internet.
Elwy Yost, Executive Producer Of TV Ontario, to share with us his love for the movies and to tell us about some of Hollywood's stars and directors whom he has interviewed.
Yost (and SNAM) for the many rare and priceless interviews (1000+) that were produced during the 25 years he hosted the show.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Yost_Elwy_288631902.htm   (446 words)

  
 elwy yost   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Elwy Yost began attending Weston Collegiate in 1939 and graduated in 1943.
In his last four months of service Elwy Yost worked on the last "Canadian Army Show" as writer-actor and was given an honorable discharge in September of 1945.
Elwy Yost has been Canada's best-loved film buff, Hollywood historian and interviewer of the silver screen's classic stars, hosting Saturday Night at the Movies on TVOntario from 1970 to 1999.
www.westonplace.ca /elwyyost.html   (259 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Elwy Yost
Elwy Yost CM (born July 10, 1925) is a television host notable for hosting TV Ontario's Saturday Night at the Movies from 1970 to 1999.
Yost hosted other educational shows prior to Saturday Night at the Movies, most notably Magic Shadows, another movie show, which showed classic movies in half-hour after-school episodes with introductions providing background and interesting details by Yost.
When Yost retired a copy of the library of interviews was donated to the Motion Picture Academy.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Elwy_Yost   (456 words)

  
 Mercury News 11/02/02
Seven years ago, Yost and his wife, Connie, decided that a place like Monterey was a far better one in which to bring up their two young children.
Born and raised in Toronto, Yost is the son of Elwy Yost, who for years was host of ``Saturday Night at the Movies'' on Canadian television.
Yost adds that not every episode is precisely the same in its format or approach.
donniewahlberg.com /mercurynews11202.htm   (1244 words)

  
 Les Pages Aux Folles: Elwy Madness
Elwy (for it is impossible to call him Mr.
Yost), the host of TV Ontario's Magic Shadows and Saturday Night at the Movies, is, to steal one of his own phrases, brilliant, simply brilliant.
Elwy, expecting a long discourse, had put the pipe into his mouth.
www.lespagesauxfolles.ca /Book1/01LPAF07.htm   (716 words)

  
 Saturday Night: still in a fever 25 years later - Saturday Night at the Movies host Elwy Yost Performing Arts & ...
Elwy's younger son is Graham Yost, screenwriter of the enormously successful pictures Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain.
Yost has been involved (in various capacities) with many TV shows over the years, including Live a Borrowed Life, Passport to Adventure (both on CBC), Magic Shadows, Film International, The Moviemakers and Talking Film, but he is best known for Saturday Night at the Movies, which celebrates its 25th anniversary on TV Ontario this year.
Yost's obsession with the movies began when he was a child during The Great Depression.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1319/is_n3_v31/ai_20931304   (885 words)

  
 Elwy Yost at the Movies | Toronto Mike's Blog
Elwy Yost hosted Magic Shadows and Saturday Night at the Movies on TVOntario for most of my life.
He focused on classic films, and I was too young to appreciate it, but he was a regular face I'd see as I surfed channels.
I'll bet he's seated in a comfy chair right now, enjoying a movie.
www.torontomike.com /2007/08/elwy_yost_at_the_movies.html   (135 words)

  
 Professionally Speaking, December 1999, Remarkable Teacher
Yost says: "I wrote mine with the title of ‘Suspense.’ It was the story of a woman walking along the street with a wrapped-up box under her arm.
Yost went on to university, then a stint as an actor and six years at A.V. Roe as an employee counsellor.
Yost was looking for work when an old friend, now a teacher, told him he had a natural gift for teaching.
www.oct.ca /publications/professionally_speaking/december_1999/remark.htm   (568 words)

  
 McMaster Alumni Association - Yost
John Watson (Jack) Yost was a "Delta kid", that is, he was raised in Hamilton's Delta district, named for the geometric intersection of its principal thoroughfares, King and Main Streets, in the east end of the city.
In the kind of rendezvous that "Jackie" would have appreciated, the Yosts eagerly sought out and were touchingly entertained by the lady who voluntarily tended the graves of air force personnel buried in the local churchyard, Jack's included.
John Watson Yost is buried in the Coningsby Cemetery, Coningsby, Lincolnshire, England.
www.mcmaster.ca /ua/alumni/honourRoll/yost.htm   (3703 words)

  
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Elwy was a great sort; he was childishly enthusiastic about the movies he aired and people he interviewed.
Shelagh Rogers could be Elwy in drag; she sits like Elwy, talks like Elwy and smiles cheerfully like Elwy.
He never let on he did not know me. Elwy is every bit as nice as he seems on television.
www.maggieturner.net /journal/2000_journal/012000/01152000.html   (613 words)

  
 ruk.ca comments: CBC Classic Matinees
While the sporty families tuned in for HNIC, my family (minus my sporty brothers, in later years) watched Saturday Night at the Movies with then-host Elwy Yost on TV Ontario.
It's ironic that Elwy's son Graham is now feeding us the next generation of entertainment.
Elwy is missed here but I think he appears on the BC version of TVO doing the same gig Sunday nights.
ruk.ca /discuss/1164   (264 words)

  
 'MOVIEMAKERS,' ON PBS PROFILES DAVID SELZNICK - New York Times
In the course of the half-hour of interviews and clips from movies such as ''King Kong'' and ''Duel in the Sun,'' the host, Elwy Yost, calls Mr.
Yost, who is a Canadian film expert, playing cheerleader.
Yost offers no criticism, the innocent viewer may come away thinking that this dud was a film of distinction.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE5D8163BF937A15751C0A960948260   (456 words)

  
 tv
ELWY Yost hosts the weekly series "A Night at the Movies" this fall on the Knowledge Network, channel 5.
Yost, a celebrated film historian and movie aficionado, can be seen every Sunday night at 8 p.m.
The West Vancouver resident and Order of Canada recipient is something of a star in his own right and Yost will be on hand to meet the public on Sunday, September 12 at the network's Family Day and open house celebration.
www.nsnews.com /issues99/w090699/tv.html   (636 words)

  
 Various Boomtown Articles 12/02 - 01/03
Of the 612 new crime dramas that debuted this autumn, "Boomtown," from "Speed" scripter Graham Yost, is the only one that deserves to stick around.
Which is unfortunate, given the fresh narrative techniques deployed by creator Graham (son of Elwy) Yost.
Like any series, and particularly any new series, the show has had some uneven installments, but its best episodes, from the sad collapse of a former TV star to the unraveling of a district attorney, have been as good as any you'll see.
www.donniewahlberg.com /variousboom1202-0103.htm   (835 words)

  
 Yost Family Crest
In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
In the Yost coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
Heraldry is defined as the hereditary art or science of blazoning, the description is appropriate technical terms of Coats-of-Arms and other heraldic and armorial insignia, and is of very ancient origin...
www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/yost-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224   (579 words)

  
 Blogcritics.org: Saturday Night At The Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Elwy is affable, friendly, and his affection for movies is contagious.
Yost is currently recovering from a serious operation at his home in West Vancouver, BC.
Yost has also turned 80 this year and I think, along with a get-well card, we should also send a birthday card.
blogcritics.org /archives/2003/03/20/152432.php   (955 words)

  
 Canadian Communications Foundation - Fondation Des Communications Canadiennes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Elwy Yost was the host of this program featuring classic Hollywood films from the 30s and 40s.
By 1975, Yost was doing a similar program on TV Ontario called Magic Shadows.
This show, whose title was later abbreviated to Passport during the second season, featured interviews with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Arthur Treacher, Willard Van Dyke from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Elwood Glover of the CBC.
www.broadcasting-history.ca /programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=986   (102 words)

  
 Our Public Airwaves
TORONTO (CP) - For 25 years until he retired in 1999, film buff Elwy Yost hosted Saturday Night at the Movies, one of the most popular programs ever on TVOntario, the provincial education broadcaster.
Yost not only offered his affable comfy couch introductions to the weekly double feature but each year, with film crew in tow, made a pilgrimage to Hollywood to interview the stars and filmmakers as bonus footage for the show.
Then three years ago Shuman came up with the idea of melding the SNAM concept with the highly respected film course offered at her alma mater, Toronto's York University.
www.ondespubliques.ca /index_f.php?page=106058124   (718 words)

  
 Countdown
Graham Yost's new television pilot, COUNTDOWN, will tell the stories of the men and women who excel at bringing these crisis situations to an end through the combined use of psychology, technology, and force.
Working under extreme pressure, these “Operators” are experts in assessing a situation’s risks, devising potential resolution scenarios (whether involving verbal or physical tactics), and dealing with the unexpected throughout the whole process.
He attributes his early love of film to his father, Elwy Yost, who was the host of
boomtown.bravepages.com /Countdown/Countdown.html   (671 words)

  
 Film Finance
The always tastefully dressed, always gracious Nicole Kidman is at the Regency Hotel in Century City to promote Cold Mountain, the film that stars her and Jude Law, and has garnished seven Oscar nominations, but sadly none for her.She’s wearing minimal makeup, no jewellery and a silk suit(Getty Images)
Elwy 101: TVO and York University collaborate on online film studies course
Elwy Yost, popular host of TV Ontario's Saturday Night at the Movies, is seen in 1995.
archive.wn.com /2004/02/19/1400/filmfinance   (1005 words)

  
 Open Brackets
I miss Elwy Yost and… well, I miss Elwy Yost, damn it, and I Mississauga.
I miss little solid pieces of America: a street or two in Cambridge and Boston, a sunny front room with a Sunday Times, a certain woods in Western New York State, someone’s front step, someone else’s old car, a railway crossing, a sloped stretch of grass under a tree.
And I think Mara’s acknowledgement that she’s willingly forgetting how lousy February is in Canada for those who’ve been enduring winter since November (knowing that the end is still nowhere in sight), is a great example of how powerful lingering memories of the comforts and magic of childhood.
openbrackets.com /article/713/mid-stream-horseless   (2007 words)

  
 SPEED - FIVE STAR COLLECTION DVD
I believe the Five Star to be the first domestic home video edition of Speed with a dedicated LFE channel; alas the film fails to take advantage of it to the extent that one would presume of a summer spectacle.
Besides a rarely-seen THX trailer and the THX Optimode set-up, the first platter includes a largely technical and oh-so-quiet commentary by De Bont and an additional, very entertaining track with Yost and producer Mark Gordon.
You may be surprised here by the sophistication of the circa-1994 CG technology.
www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/speedfivestar.htm   (841 words)

  
 Order of Canada
Elwy Yost, C.M., B.A. West Vancouver, British Columbia
Every Saturday night for twenty-five years he has invited us to put our feet up, turn the lights down low and enjoy the wonderful world of movies.
His commitment to public broadcasting has influenced a generation of Canadian producers, directors, writers and viewers, and his hundreds of videotaped interviews are a valuable educational and historical resource.
www.gg.ca /honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=5037   (92 words)

  
 Debating the Arrow's legacy - The Avro Arrow: Canada's Broken Dream - CBC Archives
Radio Noon, historian Michael Bliss calls the miniseries "an orgy of mythologizing," arguing that Avro was a disaster and the Arrow got what it deserved.
Broadcaster Elwy Yost, who worked at Avro for six years, says that's the most stupid statement he's heard in 40 years.
Yost worked in the personnel department of Avro and was involved in laying off thousands of workers.
archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-75-275-1410/science_technology/avro_arrow/clip12   (342 words)

  
 Whisky Galore! (1949)
The first time I saw this was over ten years ago on Saturday Night at the Movies-a show hosted by Elwy Yost on TV Ontario.
The first time I saw this was over ten years ago on Saturday Night at the Movies—a show hosted by Elwy Yost on TV Ontario.
Whisky Galore (1949) was recently released on DVD by Anchor Bay in a 5 DVD set called the Ealing Comedy Collection.
www.bombippy.com /archives/2006/01/whisky_galore_1.php   (293 words)

  
 Graham Yost   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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 Yost, Elwy, Hollywood and the Movies
S.F. Andrunyk, O.M.M., C. Distinguished guests, members and friends of The Empire Club of Canada: During the course of this season we have had the pleasure of wel coming to this club twenty-six leaders in government, politics, business and other fields of endeavour who have spoken to us on the major issues of the day.
President, distinguished head table guests, ladies and gentlemen: My observations, during the past seven minutes, of the manner in which you conduct your annual meeting make me wish that none of you is around to move and second my court martial.
I can't tell you, ladies and gentlemen, the degree of confidence that coursed through my veins.
www.empireclubfoundation.com /details.asp?SpeechID=345&FT=yes   (5464 words)

  
 Royal Canadian Air Farce - Official Site of Canada's #1 Comedy
Dressup, that would run for thirty-five years, and when CBC was allowed to alter the look of Sesame Street, Rosemond produced a Canadianized edition of the series that included segments reflecting bilingual Canada and adding First Nations Canadians to the show among many other changes.
In 1965 Rosemond collaborated with Elwy Yost to create original programming for M.E.T.A that was later to become TVOntario.
In 1967 Rosemond directed profiles for CBC Television’s Telescope series of Oscar Peterson, Arthur Hailey, Gordon Pinsent, Donald Sutherland, among others.
www.airfarce.com /bioper.html   (973 words)

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