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Self-Important Director Uses Autobiography to Praise Himself
This book's title says it all--for director Norman Jewison it's all about "me."This autobiography goes through his life film-by-film but the author reveals little of himself other than to praise pretty much everything he does.He takes credit for almost any success that occurs in any of his films.Meanwhile, he ignores his major flaws and as a Canadian manages to slam the United States that gave him so much opportunity.

If you are looking for a tell-all about backstage drama or affairs with stars, this isn't it.The director is careful to control all the images in the book so that he never appears to be the bad guy and only rarely makes any kind of bad decision.He spins movies that were not that good into self-perceived classics.He overlooks the fact that he wrecked some films (most notably Fiddler on the Roof and Jesus Christ Superstar--though today people don't recall the original outcry over Jewison's bizarre adaptations) and instead chooses to focus on his own brilliance.

This would have been much better if he would have opened up and revealed more of himself.His lack of vulnerability results in stories that don't reveal much about the films he made.Steve McQueen was standoffish, so the director tells of how he talked McQueen into thinking of him as an "older brother" and suddenly he was in McQueen's "inner circle."Okay--but there's nothing very interesting about that.What about some inside stories about his time with the star instead? He says Doris Day didn't think she was pretty and would refuse to come to the set--so he would go to her trailer and comfort her.Okay--he plays himself off as the hero again, but there isn't anything interesting or insightful about that story either.

The book is page after page of the director giving rather insignificant information about his directing of films and actors, always making himself look good. There is no real perspective or inner revelations.When he fails (such as unable to get Mae West to star in one of his films) he doesn't deal with the failure and instead makes others look bad (slamming Mae West's home or her desire to change the script).

The most interesting part is the fact that he isn't Jewish--though most people assume he is.He doesn't deal with that issue much either and it would have made for some interesting insights into the Hollywood community.He glosses over the chance to deal with his own spirituality and instead does a little political ranting about how terrible America was in the 1960s (he even sent his family's green cards back to the U.S. government in protest and they left the country!).This is a man filled with self-importance, one who lacks humility and doesn't show much appreciation to others for his good fortune.

Fiddler has a line that says something like "the rabbi who praises himself has a congregation of one." In this case Jewison appears to be writing to his audience of one--himself.

Southerner Got My Money
I saw this book in the book store the other night and almost bought it.Norman Jewison was on the TCM documentary of Steve McQueen, seemed like a nice guy with some fascinating stories, and I thought it would be interesting to read about his career and all the celebrities he has worked with.

I thumbed through the book, reading bits and pieces.On the back cover was a praising review from Gore Vidal - Strike 1.Below that was a praising review from Cher - Strike 2.Inside was a picture of Jewison with Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas - Strike 3.Not to mention the book states John Wayne supposedly called Jewison a "pinko Canadian."Also not to mention a few other things I found offensive.I put the book back on the shelf, kept looking and wound up buying "Capote," about the life of Truman Capote.He was a Southerner, a writer, hob-nobbed with the rich and famous, and on the back book cover it said he had a feud with Gore Vidal.Home run.

Director of 'Moonstruck', 'In the Heat of the Night' and other memorable films has written his autobiography
I finished this in three days and found it to be a fine book. Between 1965 and 1968 Norman Jewison directed 'The Cincinnati Kid', 'The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming','In the Heat of the Night' and the original 'The Thomas Crown Affair'. The book is at its best covering those years and those films. Chapters on 'Fiddler on the Roof' and 'Moonstruck' were not quite as successful. The most recent films-'Other People's Money','Only You' and 'Hurricane'-were treated rather briskly. ... Read more

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Chapters: Francis Ford Coppola, Kevin Spacey, Norman Jewison, Maximilian Schell, Mickey Rourke, Helen Mirren, Taylor Hackford, Shekhar Kapur, Hanna Schygulla, Metin Erksan, Ömer Lütfi Akad. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 97. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dame Helen Mirren, DBE (born 26 July 1945) is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes and four Emmy Awards during her career. Mirren was born Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov in a corridor of the maternity wing of Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Chiswick in West London. Her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov (19131980), was of Russian origin, and her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (née Rogers; 19091996), was English. Mirren's paternal grandfather, Pyotr Vassilievich Mironov, a Russian nobleman, tsarist colonel and diplomat, was negotiating an arms deal in Britain and was stranded there, along with his family, during the Russian Revolution. Her father called himself Basil and changed the family name to Mirren in the 1950s. He played the viola with the London Philharmonic before World War II and later drove a cab and was a driving-test examiner, before becoming a civil servant with the Ministry of Transport. Mirren's mother was from West Ham, London and was the thirteenth of fourteen children born to a butcher whose father had been the butcher to Queen Victoria. Mirren considers her upbringing to have been "very anti-monarchist". The first house she remembers living in was in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, when she was two or three years old, after the birth of her younger brother, who was named Peter Basil after his grandfather and great-great-grandfather. Mirren was the second of three children, born two years after her older sister Katherine ("Kate"). Mirren attended a Catholi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=230698 ... Read more

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Chapters: Pierre Berton, James Doohan, Farley Mowat, Norman Jewison, Douglas Jung, Conn Smythe, William Guy Carr, Leonard W. Murray, René Lévesque, Tommy Prince, Johnny Bower, Robert Timbrell, Milt Schmidt, Ernest Smith, John B. Mcnair, Leo Major, William Antrobus Griesbach, Ernest A. Watkinson, Andrew Mcnaughton, Thomas Henry Manning, Bobby Pearce, Guy Simonds, Frank Gross, Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Ivor Dent, Hartland Molson, William Wasbrough Foster, Harry Dewolf, Harry Crerar, Paul Sauvé, Geoffrey Cornish, Hardy N. Ganong, Arthur Ryan Smith, George Owen Johnson, Bruce Matthews, Gerald Macintosh Johnston, H. L. N. Salmon, F. F. Worthington, Lincoln Alexander, Gordon Fairweather, Gerald S. Graham, George Johnson, Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, Victor Odlum, Gordon Churchill, John Bassett, Peter Worthington, William Hutt, Douglas Barton Osborne Savile, Aldon Lewis Lenard, Warner Jorgenson, Vincent Dantzer, Wally Floody, Harry Wayland Randall, Percy W. Nelles, Gordie Drillon, William Landymore, Pierre Sévigny, Henry Botterell, Joe Benoit, Carl Agar, Robert Winters, Jean Victor Allard, Ken Reardon, Dallas Schmidt, Charles Perry Stacey, Wolfe Kelman, Sherwood Lett, Elmer Borstad, Ben Dunkelman, Al Balding, Harry Wickwire Foster, Dollard Ménard, Israel Halperin, Paul Martineau, Christopher Vokes, Robert Leckie, Gustave Biéler, William Thornton Mustard, Edward Amy, Frank Borland, Terry Nugent, Joe Greene, Larry Henderson, Albert Ross Tilley, Stanley Waters, Desmond Piers, Ernest William Sansom, Robert Moncel, Charles Foulkes, Dale C. Thomson, Roger Rowley, A. Edison Stairs, Frank Pierpoint Appleby, Ambrose A. Holowach, Moe Hurwitz, Victor Hubert Tait, Rod Keller, Peter Dmytruk, Claude Bissell, Lloyd Samuel Breadner, Stewart Cameron, Bert Hoffmeister, William Henderson, Barney Danson, Gérard Dufresne, Guy D'artois, Clifford Chadderton, Duncan R. Derry, Earle Birney, Dennis Flynn, J. Roger Pichette, Daryl Seaman, Robe...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=708923 ... Read more

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Chapters: Norman Jewison, Thomas Tenison, Greg Mortenson, John Adams, Frank Bell, Harry Giles, Eva Moskowitz, Deborah Fisher Wharton, Daniel Poor, Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, Eliza Marsden Hassall, Eliza Kellas, June Buchanan, Karl Rohnke, Forough Azarakhshi, David P. Weikart, Elizabeth Blodgett Hall, Ellen Moir, Grace, Lady Manners, Mathias Springham, Erich Paulun. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 86. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Greg Mortenson (born December 27, 1957) is an American humanitarian, writer, and former mountaineer. Mortenson is the co-founder (with Dr. Jean Hoerni) and director of the non-profit Central Asia Institute, and founder of the educational charity Pennies For Peace. He is the protagonist and co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission To Promote Peace... One School At A Time (Penguin 2007). The sequel, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan was released on Dec 1, 2009 (Viking 2009). From 1958-1973, Mortenson grew up in Africa near Mount Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania. His father, Irvin "Dempsey" Mortenson, was the founder/development director of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Tanzania's first teaching hospital. His mother, Dr. Jerene Mortenson, founded the International School Moshi. Mortenson served in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1975 to 1977 as a medic, and received the Commendation Medal. He attended Concordia College, Moorhead, from 1977 to 1979, and later graduated from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, South Dakota, in 1983 with an Associate Degree in Nursing and a Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry. In July 1992, Mortenson's young sister, Christa Mortenson, died from a life-long struggle with severe epilepsy on the morning she had plann...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2695247 ... Read more

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Chapters: Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, Lorne Michaels, Norman Jewison, Sydney Newman, Seth Rogen, Paul Haggis, Corey Haim, Paul Gross, Harry Saltzman, Mary Harron, Jay Firestone, Michael Mahonen, Nell Shipman, Denys Arcand, Stan Daniels, Shawn Ashmore, Phil Comeau, Grant Mclean, Holly Dale, Ken Gord, Patrick Whitley, David Acomba, Jake Eberts, Louie Lawless, Evan Beloff, Colin Low, Peter Von Puttkamer, Scott Mosier, Maureen Judge, Barry Avrich, Shauna Robertson, Anais Granofsky, Helen Shaver, Les Harris, Stegath Dorr, André Lamy, Paul Saltzman, Rae Hull, Richard Williams, Jacques Cossette-Trudel, Boulou Ebanda de B'béri, Françoise Doherty, Ziad Touma, Peter Gatien, Bruce Mcdonald, Denis Bernard, Steven Hilliard Stern, Shawn Goldberg, John Campea, Roger Frappier, Anna Stratton, Raphael Shore, Andre Van Heerden, Michael Maclear, Sylvia Sweeney, Bruce Labruce, Lee Demarbre, Peter Lhotka, Vic Sarin, Wallace Macdonald, Laurent Piche, David Julian Hirsh, Donald Shebib, Maurice Devereaux, Robin Spry, Robert Lantos, Robert Lang, Marv Newland, Michel Brault, Robin Cass, Zacharias Kunuk, Robert Wertheimer, Lindalee Tracey, Damian Lee, Susan Cohen, Bryan Michael Stoller, John Pozer, Tove Christensen, Yvan Patry, Daryl Duke, Jalal Merhi, Mark Kenneth Woods, Richard Brouillette, F. R. Crawley, Ivon Bartok, René Jodoin, Mary Young Leckie, Carolyn Mcmaster, Gabriella Martinelli, Mary Walker-Sawka, Bart Simpson, Christopher E. Scott, Colin Brunton, Al Christie, Michael Hirsh, William Vince, Rodrigue Jean, John Nesbitt, Denis Héroux, Dean Deblois, Paul Arcand, Richard Sadler, Tom Perlmutter, Nat Taylor, John Nursall, Hart Bochner, Gilles Hebert, Reagan Dale Neis, Francis Mankiewicz, Jason Faller, Armand Schaefer, Peter Scheerer, Ken Finkleman, Derek Lamb, Kelly Norris Sarno, Michael Mcgowan, Ralph Endersby, Grace Kosaka, Jean Beaudin, Harold Greenberg, Michael Poole, Anne Claire Poirier, Daniel Iron, Peter O'brian, Mark Penney, Anthony Sherwo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18823 ... Read more

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Chapters: William Osler, Norman Jewison, Bryan Adams, Billy Bishop, Beverley Baxter, Conrad Swan, Gwynne Dyer, Caribou, Davide Xausa, Andrew R. Cobb, William Hope, David Jensen, Richard Monette, Tommy Reilly, Carmen Silvera, Rafal Heydel-Mankoo, Monita Rajpal, Lionel Blair, William Aitken, Anna Cummer, Justin D. Edwards, Linda Thorson, Shane Rimmer, Charlotte Vale Allen, Patricia Owens, Canadians in the United Kingdom, Angela Hewitt, Robert Falconer, Anthony Abbott, Maya Even, William Johnston Almon, Declan Hill, Glen Johnson, Blaine Sexton, Graham Day, Mary Lawson, Alice Massey, Lewis Yealland, Paula Newton, Sheila Macvicar, Jean Mcneil, Alison Murray. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 177. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bryan Adams, OC, OBC (born Bryan Guy Adams, November 5, 1959) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 18 Juno Awards among 56 nominations, including wins for Best Male Artist in 2000 and Male Vocalist of the Year in 1997 and every year from 1983 to 1987, as well as Junos for Producer, Composer, and Songwriter of the Year. He has also had 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television for "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" in 1992. He has also won MTV, ASCAP, and American Music awards. In addition, he has won two Ivor Novello Awards and has been nominated for several Golden Globe Awards and three times for Academy Awards for his songwriting for films. Adams was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for contributions to popular music and philanthropic work via his own foundation, which helps improve education for people around the world. He is a well known photographer. Adams was i...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=192892 ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary.Chapters: Moonstruck, the Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, a Soldier's Story, ...and Justice for All, the Hurricane, Jesus Christ Superstar, the Cincinnati Kid, Rollerball, Fiddler on the Roof, in the Heat of the Night, F.i.s.t., the Thomas Crown Affair, Agnes of God, Other People's Money, the Statement, Bogus, Gaily, Gaily. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 93. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1973 American film adaptation of the rock opera of the same name, based on the conflict between Judas and Jesus in the last weeks before the crucifixion of Jesus. The film was directed by Norman Jewison. Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson were nominated for two Golden Globe Awards in 1974 for their portrayals of Jesus and Judas, respectively. Though it attracted criticism from some religious groups, the film was generally well received. During the filming of Fiddler on the Roof, Barry Dennen (who played Pilate on the concept album) suggested to Norman Jewison that he should direct Jesus Christ Superstar as a film. After hearing the album, Jewison agreed to do it. The film was shot in Israel (primarily at the ruins of Avdat) and other Middle Eastern locations in 1972. The cast consisted mostly of actors from the Broadway show, with Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson starring as Jesus and Judas respectively. Neeley had played a reporter and a leper in the Broadway version, and understudied the role of Jesus. Along with Dennen, Yvonne Elliman (Mary Magdalene), and Bob Bingham (Caiaphas) reprised their Broadway roles in the film. Originally, Jewison had wanted Ian Gillan to reprise his role as Jesus, but Gillan turned down the offer, deciding that he would please fans more by touring with Deep Purple. Like the stage show, the film gave rise t...http://booksllc.net/?id=7651220 ... Read more

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Chapters: William Lyon Mackenzie King, Yousuf Karsh, Norman Jewison, Charles Coughlin, Hal Foster, Lara Roxx, Steve Nash, Sunny Leone, Grant Connell, Aleksandra Wozniak, Frédéric Niemeyer, Gail Kim, Jennifer Botterill, Bernard Ebbers, Nathan Fillion, Mike Belkin, Jason Bay, Cyrus S. Eaton, Jason Reitman, René Bourque, Mike Vanderjagt, Dan Bryk, Jamaal Magloire, Stéphane Bonneau, Brodie Merrill, Érik Bédard, Kara Lang, Russell Peters, Craig Adams, Jeff Zywicki, Rick Fox, Albert Benjamin Simpson, Monty Hall, Mike French, Clara Sipprell, Doug Henning, Peter Burwash, Rob Friend, Alan Thicke, Pat Mcgeer, Andrea Roth, Réjean Génois, Greg Sutton, Tony Mandarich, Walter Gretzky, Stana Katic, Shawn Evans, Dave Barr, James East, Charles Aubrey Eaton, Canadian Pioneers in Early Hollywood, Rory Glaves, Troy Westwood, Henryk de Kwiatkowski, R. Tait Mckenzie, Brian Williams, Arthur "Slim" Evans, Denham Brown, the Defranco Family, Stan Cockerton, Charles Chiniquy, Tim Biakabutuka, Leyla Milani, Stephen Ademolu, Pedram Moallemian, David Mitchell, Tom Cross, Corey Small, Lou Jacobi, Zevs Cosmos, Sarah Vaillancourt, Amy Agulay, Kristen Hager, Mariam Matossian, Melissa Hayden, Rueben Mayes, Ron James, Adriano Belli, Paul Quantrill, Kevin Eiben, Leo Rautins, Bryan Decorso, Paul Bennett, Gabriel Aubry, George Ellsworth, Liskula Cohen, Willard Miller, Jay Manuel, Rino Romano, Harry Herbert Miller, Colin Cole, Andrew Sznajder, Stacey Dales, Ryan Thelwell, Jasper Wood, Paul Patrick Chomnycky, Melissa Tancredi, Frances Ford Seymour, Jason Dickson, Kent Derricott, Kyle Landry, Louis Leblanc, Tammy Lee Shewchuk, Christian Paul, Cam Burke, Carmen Lombardo, Martin Laurendeau, Rachel Perry, Olu Famutimi, George Forrester Davidson, Anna Sutherland Bissell, Tyler Kepkay, Mark Boswell, Richard Legendre, Jermaine Anderson, Muriel Kauffman, Pat Kiernan, Daniel Petrie, Jan Alston, Mark Kriski, Robert Bédard, Rajiv Surendra, Courtney Babcock, Jermaine Bucknor, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=346029 ... Read more

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Chapters: Neil Young, James Cameron, John Grierson, David Cronenberg, Norman Jewison, John Greyson, Paul Haggis, Sarah Polley, Jason Reitman, Paul Gross, Dave Thomas, Robert Lepage, Simcha Jacobovici, Michael Snow, Norman Mclaren, Steven Goldmann, Alanis Obomsawin, Thom Fitzgerald, Scott Treleaven, G. B. Jones, Mary Harron, Damian Pettigrew, Alvin Rakoff, Atom Egoyan, Perry Mark Stratychuk, Michael Mahonen, Denys Arcand, Guy Maddin, Allan King, Avi Lewis, Boyce Richardson, Gerald Potterton, Frances-Anne Solomon, Leslie Mcfarlane, Phil Comeau, John Mantley, Grant Mclean, Holly Dale, Ross Mclaren, Boris Malagurski, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, Mark Achbar, Rob Heydon, David Acomba, Ted Kotcheff, Grant Munro, Martin Wood, Jeff Campagna, Fletcher Markle, Deepa Mehta, Anne Wheeler, Gregory Colbert, David Winning, John Kalangis, Marco Brambilla, Ivan Reitman, Maureen Judge, Christian Langlois, Bill Mason, Richard Bell, Jacques Godbout, Sidney Olcott, Darrell Wasyk, Barry Avrich, Jean-Daniel Lafond, Peter Vronsky, Anais Granofsky, Helen Shaver, Don Mckellar, Daniel Macivor, Richard Williams, Matt Campagna, Clement Virgo, John L'ecuyer, Jack Chambers, Paul G. Boyle, Michael Mackenzie, Françoise Doherty, Art Hindle, Ziad Touma, Mike Ruiz, Arthur Hiller, Bruce Mcdonald, Léo-Ernest Ouimet, Mark Palansky, Denis Bernard, Steven Hilliard Stern, Little X, Michael Kennedy, Patricia Rozema, Jean Smith, Ian Iqbal Rashid, Gilles Carle, John Campea, Roger Frappier, David Bezmozgis, Brett Gaylor, Albert Tessier, Charles Officer, Paul Donovan, Sam Dunn, Stephanie Morgenstern, Jerry Ciccoritti, Robert F. Hill, Doug Karr, Bruce Labruce, Eric Denis, T. W. Peacocke, Willie Dunn, David J. Francis, Gariné Torossian, Rob Stewart, Donald Brittain, J. Gordon Edwards, Vic Sarin, Laurent Piche, John English, Donald Shebib, Maurice Devereaux, Magnus Isacsson, Robin Spry, Yung Chang, Gavin Heffernan, Del Lord, Rob Quartly, Mila Aung-Thwin, Gil Cardinal, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=87985 ... Read more

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Chapters: Founders and Heads of Educational Institutions, Norman Jewison, Thomas Tenison, Greg Mortenson, John Adams, Frank Bell, Harry Giles, Eva Moskowitz, Deborah Fisher Wharton, Daniel Poor, Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, Eliza Marsden Hassall, Eliza Kellas, June Buchanan, Karl Rohnke, Forough Azarakhshi, David P. Weikart, Elizabeth Blodgett Hall, Ellen Moir, Grace, Lady Manners, Mathias Springham, Erich Paulun. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 84. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Greg Mortenson (born December 27, 1957) is an American humanitarian, writer, and former mountaineer. Mortenson is the co-founder (with Dr. Jean Hoerni) and director of the non-profit Central Asia Institute, and founder of the educational charity Pennies For Peace. He is the protagonist and co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission To Promote Peace... One School At A Time (Penguin 2007). The sequel, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan was released on Dec 1, 2009 (Viking 2009). From 1958-1973, Mortenson grew up in Africa near Mount Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania. His father, Irvin "Dempsey" Mortenson, was the founder/development director of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Tanzania's first teaching hospital. His mother, Dr. Jerene Mortenson, founded the International School Moshi. Mortenson served in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1975 to 1977 as a medic, and received the Commendation Medal. He attended Concordia College, Moorhead, from 1977 to 1979, and later graduated from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, South Dakota, in 1983 with an Associate Degree in Nursing and a Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry. In July 1992, Mortenson's young sister, Christa Mortenson, died from a life-long struggle w...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2695247 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Norman Frederick Jewison, CC, O.Ont (born 21 July 1926) is a Canadian film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre.Jewison was born in Toronto, the son of Dorothy Irene (née Weaver) and Percy Joseph Jewison, who managed a general store and post office. He attended Kew Beach School, and while growing up in the 1930s displayed an aptitude for performing and theatre. He served in the Navy (1944-1945) during World War II, and after being discharged traveled in the American South, where he encountered segregation, an experience that would influence his later work. ... Read more