In January 2012, Philip Kates, my friend of ten years, passed away from liver cancer. He was a commercial director I met when I hired him to shoot a Maple Leaf Chicken commercial that I wrote. His funeral was in Alberta, where he was living with his wife. A few weeks later there was a memorial in Toronto. I got some laughs during my improvised speech. And I think Philip would have been very pleased about that. To watch Philip and I talking to the audience about our film at the HollyShorts Film Festival in August 2010, see my old blog post about that by clicking here. And here’s the speech I gave at his memorial:
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| Philip and I meeting fans at the HollyShorts Film Festival in LA in August 2010, for the premiere of 3 Dates, a film that I wrote and he directed. |
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| Feb. 17, 2012 At the Toronto memorial for Philip Kates. |
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| Feb. 17, 2012 At the Toronto memorial for Philip Kates. |
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| From those dates, you can see how old he was. Funny, I always thought he was younger. |