2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Toronto Star
The weird, wondrous and extremely painful world of Larry Zolf
I happened to be on a panel about the late Larry Zolf (1934-2011), which is part of the current Toronto Jewish Film Festival. Zolf was a Canadian icon of a peculiar sort. He came from Winnipeg's very immigrant, working class, highly intellectual, left-wing Jewish community and headed for Toronto, the CBC especially, like a homing pigeon.
He was featured on the legendary, unknown (a unique Canadian combo) show, 'This Hour Has Seven Days,' that flared for a few years in the mid-1960s and was swiftly smothered by the mother ship that birthed it. He was loud, garrulous, funny, pompous, over-educated and physically … memorable. Also highly ambitious, combative, arrogant and insecure. Everything showed.
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