GE 1996-7 Season 3 Episode 2: Intro
Note: this is not a transcript, but a working draft of the script, so there may be differences in the aired version.
PAUL: Goth-ahn die-in, peoples of
Canada, Iceland and Nfld. My
name is Paul Moth.
This week on The Great
Eastern: we find out where
the bodies are buried; aliens
cooling out in the
refrigerator; a flood of
national responses to our
distinctly Nfld noise; and the
return of our always perky
political panel.
All this for you, with me, on
The Great Eastern, Nfld?s
Cultural Magazine !
SFX: THEME OUT
Whew ... what a week.
First, have you seen those
wasps that are rampaging
across the country ? They may
be logy, but they?re still
dangerous, as I found out.
Tuesday, one stung me on the
thumb. And the pain ! Right
up my arm ... and across my
chest ... started to get tight
... I don?t have to tell you
what I thought was happening.
Tongue swole up a little ...
but everything syeems in
wyorking order now.
And then second, the rumour
mill started churning like a
mighty Churchillian turbine.
I must address this
scuttlebutt, because it
concerns me. It is currently
running rampant in some of the
country?s ... ?popular? press.
The buzz originated, I
imagine, from fertile minds in
the BCN mail room.
I did indeed receive a package
from Los Angeles this week.
The sender, it is true, was
one Kim Campbell, the Right
Honourable lotus land lass.
But for the record: I have
never had an intimate
relationship with Ms.
Campbell.
And I do not, as one
particularly loathsome scribe
suggested, have ?a thing? for
conservative women.
[ Nothing could be further
from the truth. ]
Truth be told, the package I
received from Kim Campbell was
a manuscript, a long lost
first draft of a novel I began
during my (chokes a little)
... dark years in The City of
Angels.
Kim is resident now in the
Wiltshire, as it turns out, in
the former digs of sub-monoist
composer, and dear friend of
mine, the late Hugh Kuva. It
seems that Kim was cleaning
out some closet space when she
stumbled upon a yellowing
mound of paper. One thousand
two hundred and sixty double
spaced, typed pages ... my
name prominently featured on
the first. I thought it had
been lost forever.
Thank you, Kim Campbell. I
owe you one.
Here from our fabulously rich
musical archive is Grace
Boutilier, performing live on
The Great Eastern in 1958.
Cole Porter?s ?From This
Moment On.?