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Friday, August 18, 2006
Dangerous When Provoked
:: Posted by Bryan @ 8/18/2006 07:12:00 AM 
Coming soon to your TV: a real live caricaturist.
CBC Monday, August 21 at 8 p.m.
Repeating Sunday, August 27 at 2:30 p.m.
On CBC Newsworld: Thursday August 24 at 10 p.m. ET,
Saturday August 26 at 2 p.m. ET and Sunday August 27 at 6 a.m. ET
Montreal's Terry Mosher (aka Aislin) is one of the two or three cartoonists who are almost household names in Canada. This status will be confirmed when CBC gives Aislin the Life and Times treatment on August 21. The Life and Times documentary series is usually reserved for those the CBC considers top-rated pop culture figures: major artists, politicos, and old hockey players, but this particular subject is sure to provide lots of grist for the documentary mill:
the master satirist, who has made a career out of unmasking others, is a bit of a mystery to those around him. "I don't know the deep inside of Terry," says Freed. "I don't think anybody does."
During his early years as an artist, Mosher wrestled with some powerful inner demons. Now 63, the once heavy-drinking, coke-snorting, smoker and bar brawler says he reached "the edge of oblivion" before resolving to change his life.
more:
CBC-TV: Life and Times
Mosher is also part of an upcoming stage revue, The Four Anglos of the Apocalypse, a satirical show about living as an English-speaker in Quebec (Sept. 5 to 10 at the Centaur Theatre, 453 St. Francois Xavier in Old Montreal).Labels: Quebec
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