Marie Wilson

Joined February 2021

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Harper Collins published my novel "The Gorgeous Girls". My feature film screenplay "Sideshow Bandit" has won several awards at film festivals. I have a new feature film screenplay called "A Girl Like I" and it's looking for a producer.

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Stella Adler: Revered & Feared
The legendary mentor who taught Brando and De Niro, among others, came to Toronto one drizzly April evening in 1983 to present a lecture. Famous for her acerbic tongue and her insistence on emotional honesty in acting, she did not disappoint with her leonine delivery. She also toned it down to kitten-level when the moment called for it.
By Marie Wilson3 years ago in Humans
A Dreaming Place
When Alexander Graham Bell moved to Canada in 1870 he was not expected to live. He was just 23 years old. Frail and coughing, it was thought he would soon succumb to TB, just as both his brothers had.
By Marie Wilson3 years ago in Motivation
I Started a John Doe Club
Frank Capra never thought he could sell a corny notion wholesale and so he always supplied believable counterpoints to the potentially saccharine optimism in his movies.
By Marie Wilson4 years ago in Humans
We Got Lost in Paris. Top Story - June 2022.
Through the cobblestone streets we traipsed, enchanted by the ancient city, as bewildered as Alice in Wonderland. There is no better wonderland to be lost in than Paris.
By Marie Wilson4 years ago in Humans
All You Really Need Is Empathy
Helen is having a sarcasmgasm on Facebook. She read an opinion piece in The New York Times and thought it was "full of bullshit" so she posted about it, laying on the sarcasm. Helen often uses the quote: “I’d give up sarcasm but that would leave interpretive dancing as my only way of communicating.” She adds: “And you don’t want to see that.”
By Marie Wilson4 years ago in Humans
The Notorious Ward
St. John’s Ward was a festering pool of poverty & disease located in the heart of Toronto in the 19th & 20th centuries. Known simply as The Ward, the area was defined by its border streets: College, Yonge, University & Queen. It housed the city’s poorest: people who had travelled from afar looking for a brighter future, who then did their best to set up housekeeping in Toronto’s worst slum.
By Marie Wilson4 years ago in Humans
Beautiful Nixie
Beautiful Joe was a dog whose owner beat him and cut off his ears and tail. In 1894, Marshall Saunders wrote “Beautiful Joe”, a novel based on the true story of this tortured dog. Her book led the charge for the humane treatment of animals everywhere.
By Marie Wilson4 years ago in Petlife
Straight Down the Line: Into Film Noir
One of film noir’s most dynamic openings plays out on a moonlit veranda in Singapore in William Wyler’s 1940 classic The Letter. It took Wyler thirty-three takes, exhausting his star, Bette Davis. But it's magic.
By Marie Wilson5 years ago in Criminal
Violette Aubergine
The magazine clipping of Lana Turner crackled and curled like a strip of bacon, her shapely gams sizzling in the flames. My uniform, on the other hand, just smouldered - kind of like Lana in The Postman Always Rings Twice.
By Marie Wilson5 years ago in The Swamp
Lady in Red
The press labeled my mother the Lady in Red. It sounds notorious but she was not a spy or a lady of the night. She was born Marion Cecil Borden in 1919 and she would grow up to be a track & field star.
By Marie Wilson5 years ago in Families
Gold Rush
When I was a teenager, I’d take my hard-earned babysitting money and ride a Saturday bus to the nearest town that had more stores than my town had. Landing in New Westminster, B.C., I went in search of bargain fabric because I loved clothes.
By Marie Wilson5 years ago in Humans
Pearls
Melting - My friend's Valentine's Day party is dotted with chocolate of every kind and shape, including the handcuffs I'm nibbling on. Hearts abound - paper, ceramic, neon, lace, cinnamon, pewter, you name it. I'm taking it all in when a man asks me to find him the cherry in a large box of chocolates sitting on a sideboard.
By Marie Wilson5 years ago in Humans