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dane trivia
May. 12th, 2022 12:10 pmsometimes when i'm bored at work, i use my old graduate school account to poke around in their library's newspaper databases. they have access to the toronto star and the globe and mail, though neither archive goes back further than 1978 or so. this means that i'm certainly missing out on dane content and none of the articles in the databases seem to include any photos.... but there's still fun things in there for me.
one example is this little feature about an apparently controversial public art piece in toronto. don't worry if you can't access the article - i'll share the relevant bits below.
it gives ages/occupations for nearly all the other random people interviewed but not him, which suggests that we should know who he is - and i think that makes it safe to assume that yes, this is the same lawrence dane. he would've been 42 here, a couple years out from that very nice macleans magazine profile where he's described as a confirmed bachelor and complains a little about being perceived as a playboy, haha. (he didn't get married until 1995!)
this quote is so funny to me because it feels like quintessential 1970s, very "macho but sensitive", lol. and given what i know about heavenly bodies, the film he co-wrote and directed...let's just say i'm not surprised. (i haven't gotten to watch that yet but i'll get around to it eventually.) he comes across as charming enough in interviews at the time, and it makes me wish i could've found out for myself whether that was true.
one example is this little feature about an apparently controversial public art piece in toronto. don't worry if you can't access the article - i'll share the relevant bits below.
"Toronto benches the Lovers' Bench, Montreal gains art"
Saturday, June 02, 1979
Marina Strauss
Toronto the Good appears to be trying to hold on to its title.
A controversial sculpture of a nude couple embracing with a woman sitting next to them was quietly removed last week from outside the Colonnade shopping concourse on Bloor Street West after a number of people complained about the art work.
Lovers' Bench, displayed at the mall by the Kar gallery, is a $100,000 mass of bronze by sculptor Lea Vivot. The sculpture now sits comfortably on Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal, where a prospective buyer has already expressed interest.
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Most people interviewed around the Colonnade yesterday either liked the statue or else couldn't see any reason for removing it.
I thought it was humorous, provocative - very masculine and very feminine, said Lawrence Dane, who lives in an apartment above the mall.
it gives ages/occupations for nearly all the other random people interviewed but not him, which suggests that we should know who he is - and i think that makes it safe to assume that yes, this is the same lawrence dane. he would've been 42 here, a couple years out from that very nice macleans magazine profile where he's described as a confirmed bachelor and complains a little about being perceived as a playboy, haha. (he didn't get married until 1995!)
this quote is so funny to me because it feels like quintessential 1970s, very "macho but sensitive", lol. and given what i know about heavenly bodies, the film he co-wrote and directed...let's just say i'm not surprised. (i haven't gotten to watch that yet but i'll get around to it eventually.) he comes across as charming enough in interviews at the time, and it makes me wish i could've found out for myself whether that was true.
