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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    This is the house that Jack built.

    This is the malt
    That lay in the house that Jack built.
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 1–3)

    Since I no longer expect
    anything from mankind except
    madness,
    meanness, and mendacity;
    egotism,
    cowardice,
    and
    self-delusion,
    I have stopped
    being a
    misanthrope.
    —Irving Layton (b. 1912)

    Resorts advertised for waitresses, specifying that they “must appear in short clothes or no engagement.” Below a Gospel Guide column headed, “Where our Local Divines Will Hang Out Tomorrow,” was an account of spirited gun play at the Bon Ton. In Jeff Winney’s California Concert Hall, patrons “bucked the tiger” under the watchful eye of Kitty Crawhurst, popular “lady” gambler.
    —Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It’s become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.
    Malcolm McLaren (b. 1946)