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Tonight's the Night
Daily Arts Alert ... by Cathleen Bond
Monday, Oct. 30

Tonight's the Night ... That the Canadian television industry makes love to its best and its brightest -- Stars, that is!

GeminisBe sure to tune in to the final night of the Geminis to find out who won, what they wore and who the Academy managed to wrangle as presenters. I've worked the awards show beat before. It's no small feat snagging high TV-Q personalities and the Geminis have done a mighty fine job assembling a pretty impressive list of folks to hand out the hardware. Here's a taste of who you're going to see:

STEVE SMITH will do the honours as host

Mike Bullard MIKE BULLARD Host of the popular night-time talk show Open Mike with Mike

NICHOLAS CAMPBELL Star of CBC's Da Vinci's Inquest

CARLA COLLINS Comedian and host of The Comedy Network's Chez Carla

WENDY CREWSON Ms. Crewson is a current Gemini Nominee and was the recipient of the 1998 Gemini Award winner for Best Actress in a Dramatic Movie for her role as Sue Rodriguez in At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story

PAUL GROSS Need I say more?

CATHY JONES aka Babe Bennett

PETER KENT Broadcast journalist and anchor of Global Television Networks' First

MICHIE MEE Canadian hip-hop queen

RICK MERCER Again, need I say more?

WENDY MESLEY Host of the CBC Television news/information series Undercurrents

SONJA SMITS Queen on the floor on Traders and Street Legal

JULIE STEWART Gemini Award nominee Julie Stewart plays Sergeant Ali McCormick, the hottest homicide cop in CTV's Cold Squad.

PAMELA WALLIN Regis Philbin - The Canadian Edition

The Geminis have been around since 1979 to honour all the people who work in the crazy Canadian television business. Pre-telecast awards for all the dull stuff was handed out Saturday and Sunday nights, and they saved the fun awards for tonight. Be sure to catch the Gemini Awards on CBC at 8 ET

  • Gemini Awards
  • List of Gemini winners from Sunday night
  • Motherwell
    The Wave
    Feeling Abstract? Robert Motherwell was one of America's most important modern artists and the Mira Godard Gallery is currently exhibiting a show featuring Motherwell's watercolours, collages, prints and paintings. The artist was one of the innovators of Abstract Expressionism. He believed that the abstract form and gesture were perfect vehicles for communicating emotion and thought. Bold black marks and red slashes were his visual signature.

    Motherwell continued to paint until his death in 1991 at the age of 76.

  • Mira Godard Gallery
    Paintings, Watercolours, Collages and Prints
    Robert Motherwell
    until Nov. 4
    Toronto
  • Fine Tuning: I guess the pickings are really slim at the CBC. OutFront has got some woman on the air today proudly trumpeting the fact that she's a stalker. Maybe that's a bit strong, but "Gross-ed Out" is all about one woman's obsession with actor Paul Gross. This morning's show features Katie Andrews (a major Gross fan), making a pilgrimage from her home in Regina all the way to Stratford, to see our favourite Mountie mount Hamlet. That's this morning on OutFront, at 11:45 ET on CBC Radio One.

  • Did you that Henri Matisse was tormented in youth by his lack of focus? Did you know that his in-laws were persecuted because their employers ripped off thousands of people in a scandal that nearly brought down the French government? Probably not. You know Henri from his exuberant paintings, but there's a lot more to man Matisse than his body of work. Learn more on The Arts Today, right after the 10:00 p.m. news ET on CBC Radio One.

  • I'm back with yet another report on CBC's Great Plays of the Millennium. This week they're airing The Tempest. Shakespeare's last play features high romance, great storms at sea, fanciful sprites, vengeful brutes and a crotchety old magician's strained relationship with his brother. Talk about great entertainment! That's Great Plays of the Millennium, tonight at 9 p.m. ET on CBC Radio Two.

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