Jack Layton - Jack Layton in Popular Culture

Jack Layton in Popular Culture

Layton's life is to be portrayed in a television movie, Smilin' Jack: The Jack Layton Story with Rick Roberts as Layton and Sook-Yin Lee as Olivia Chow. The cast also includes Wendy Crewson and Erin Karpluk. It is scheduled for release in early 2013 on CBC Television.

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    That is the man all tattered and torn
    That kissed the maiden all forlorn
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 29–30)

    An aphorism
    should be
    like a burr:
    sting,
    ...
    and leave
    a little soreness....
    —Irving Layton (b. 1912)

    The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Anthropologists have found that around the world whatever is considered “men’s work” is almost universally given higher status than “women’s work.” If in one culture it is men who build houses and women who make baskets, then that culture will see house-building as more important. In another culture, perhaps right next door, the reverse may be true, and basket- weaving will have higher social status than house-building.
    —Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Excerpted from, Gender Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World (1990)