Next by Gordon Pinsent

Author:Gordon Pinsent
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780771071386
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2012-10-15T21:00:00+00:00

all in the family

IF YOU, YOUR WIFE, AND YOUR DAUGHTER ALL SPEND your days waiting for the phone to ring, you must be in show business.

By the early nineties Leah had a few more TV movies behind her, including a bit in Glory Enough for All, a dramatized account of the Nobel Prize–winning discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto by Frederick Banting and Charles Best, with R. H. Thomson as Banting and Robert Wisden as Best, and she was starting to get calls for both new and established series, including a stint with Angela Lansbury on Murder, She Wrote. She had also met a talented actor from St. Louis, Michael Capellupo. A few years older than Leah, Michael was a charming fellow who was waiting for the phone to ring like the rest of us, and was now thinking he could cast himself in better roles by writing them himself. (Sound familiar?) Michael and Leah were married in 1991.

Charm and Kate were finally working together again on stage, in a revival of Arsenic and Old Lace at their beloved Hart House Theatre. Not to be outdone, I had been persuaded, without too much arm twisting, to play Matthew to Barbara Ham’s brilliant Marilla in a revival of Anne of Green Gables at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto. Coming on stage every night, it was a delight to go home to Charm instead of an empty hotel room, and I savoured every moment of it. I had turned down the same role twelve months earlier, but now I felt ready to play Matthew, ready to do him justice, and strong enough to hold my own on stage with Barbara. The audience and the critics seemed to agree, and a few months later I would win my first and only Dora.* (So far.)

While I was on stage at the Elgin, I was still looking for my next truly memorable role. Offstage I was having fun jumping from series to series, and promoting my first attempt at a memoir called By the Way. I had an onscreen reunion with Chris Plummer on Counterstrike, did a showy turn with Sara Botsford on E.N.G., and played a recurring role on Street Legal with Cynthia Dale, Eric Peterson, and newcomer Albert Schultz. I even had a reunion with The Missus, Jackie Burroughs, on Road to Avonlea, while Avonlea resident Barbara Ham kept us laughing between takes. I did an episode of The Hidden Room with Lara Flynn Boyle, and I did an episode of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues with David Carradine and Neve Campbell. Neve was very shy. I think it was probably one of her first acting roles, because she had started out as a dancer and was trying to make a new name for herself as an actor. She didn’t smile at all, which was fine. We were both struggling a little bit with our Australian accents – why we had Australian accents I can’t remember – but Carradine was going

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