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[papajoemambo]

In a conversation about our movie influences and the stuff that made us fans, one of my local Live Journal pals, 32elvismovies, asked the question "Why would anyone ridicule Elwy?" after I had mentioned that Elwy Yost, the former host of TV ONTARIO's SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES is sometimes mocked by people who see themselves as more movie-literate than he is

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[dorothy_parka]

man, canadia is the best. i'm moving up there. we didn't have anyone like that! the closest we got were zacherley and ghoulardi. and they weren't showing "citizen cane."

[papajoemambo]

Honestly, Dotty.

Its guys like this and the fact that they're given media access in a region that's as big as all of Europe that keeps people like me up here.

Elwy's retired now, but he still does a show, very similar to his old ones, in BC where he lives now.

I have a photo taken with him that I'll scan and put up.

He's like the movie loving Grampa you either had and miss now, or wish you had had and never got to meet.

[32elvismovies]

That was a very insightful and sincere post, and I hope plenty of people read it. My friend and I were talking about critics yesterday, about how it has become a form of entertainment all into itself. It seperates itself from the form which it is either helping or harming