Thursday, May 29, 2008

Great. Now I Have to Start Over.

JOHN DOYLE, writing in the Globe today, totally wrecked my new outline.

1. Stockwell Day, our esteemed Minister of Public Safety, is just thrilled skinny about The Border. That's CBC's pumped-up melodrama about fighting terrorism 'n' stuff. The one in which the border security people are the heroes, not merely officious geeks looking for out for porn in the mail. Nogoodniks lurk everywhere on The Border. Stock Day has let it be known he's a huge fan. Wants to meet the cast and crew and, you know, maybe have a little cameo on it. I'm totally not making that up.

10. Maxime Bernier will guest-star on the new season of The Border. He'll play a government minister who has a fling with a gal who used to be a gangster's moll and he discovers, to his horror, that he left some papers lying around somewhere. He forgets where. Helicopters, a SWAT team and much gunplay are involved. Then Stock Day shows up and saves the situation by talking about God 'n' stuff. I am totally making that up.

The really sad part of this? Now I have to lose that waterskiing up to the ICS headquarters and jumping off in a wetsuit scene. I was looking forward to that one.

Oh well. Now....let's see. Don Cherry walks into a bar, and...

EDIT: for the sake of clarity, I should say that I heard offhand that Mr. Day did enjoy The Border. I don't know if it's true if he said he wanted to be an extra. And if he did, I don't know if he was serious. The guy is probably a little busy. I mean, the Tories probably need all the ministers they can get right now, hey?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

You never know. I have to assume the USAF Chief of Staff is a little busy too, but two of them have bopped off to Vancouver to cameo on SG-1...