 I`ve never lost my taste for bluegrass. I`ve always been bad at planning things.
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When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don`t want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.
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When we were producing the Great White North comedy album, my experience in radio told me I needed two singles in order to get enough airplay.
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I don`t limit my taste. There`s some jazz that I like and there`s some opera. I`ve been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.
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I think that I recall the nostalgic `50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.
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A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.
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And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn`t miss making movies.
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My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.
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Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn`t handle the travel. I`m a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn`t working for me. So I stopped.
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About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.
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I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band.
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And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.
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On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.
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Well, whether it`s on film or on TV, you don`t want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.
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The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I`m not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.
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It`s hard to improvise that kind of stuff, whereas the McKenzies are easy to improvise, because it`s the two of us, and the material is pretty basic.
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I`m a single parent and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies.
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What we see is what they`re trying to sell us. It`s not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it`s less expensive than new material.
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I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.
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I pulled out of making movies in about `96 or `97.
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There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV.
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It`s just I fell into a bunch of movies that kind of fit in my life. It made sense to do them in the `80s. Folks who know me think it`s hilarious.
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Trivia
Using the on-air name of "Rick Allen" he was the overnight deejay on Toronto radio station CFTR-AM in the early Seventies after that station switched formats from Beautiful Music to Top 40.
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Moranis and Dave Thomas originally created the characters Bob and Doug McKenzie in protest against government requirements for "identifiable Canadian content" in domestically produced television programming. The skits, as an SCTV program "The Great White North" featured two dim witted brothers who combined as many negative Canadian stereotypes as possible. Despite this, they became so popular that the skits were included in the U.S. version of the program, and Moranis and Thomas were made members of the Order of Canada for their contribution to Canadian culture.
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Was widowed in the early 1990s when his wife died of cancer. He has two children from that marriage.
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He made the cover of the first issue of Disney Adventures in 1990.
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Along with Dave Thomas, scored a Billboard Top 40 hit in 1982 called "Take Off" as Bob and Doug MacKenzie in a duet with Rush lead singer Geddy Lee.
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Attended the funeral of his good friend John Candy.
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Was invited to the party Steve Martin was throwing that turned out to be his wedding.
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Was the afternoon deejay on Toronto radio station CHUM-FM in the Seventies.
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Went to school with Geddy Lee from Rush.
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