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About the artist from Wikipedia:
William Weintraub,
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(born February 19, 1926) is a Canadian journalist, author, filmmaker
and lecturer, known for his long association with Canada's
National Film Board (NFB).
Born and educated in
Montreal, Weintraub graduated from
McGill University where he had worked on the
McGill Daily. He began his career as a reporter at
The Montreal Gazette in the 1950s, later moving to
Weekend magazine. His experience in journalism provided the basis for Weintraub's
1961 novel
Why Rock the Boat? and his
2001 memoir
Getting Started. Among
Mordecai Richler,
Mavis Gallant,
Norman Levine and
Brian Moore.
Weintraub's contemporaries and friends were authors
Weintraub's satirical
1979 novel
The Underdogs
provoked controversy by imagining a future socialist republic of
Quebec, in which English-speakers were an oppressed minority, complete
with a violent resistance movement. One planned stage version was
canceled before its premiere.
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In a film career spanning decades, Weintraub was involved with more
than 150 NFB productions, serving variously as writer, producer and
director. Productions ranged from
Canada: Beef Cattle to historical documentaries to a portrait of Canadian writer
Margaret Laurence. His 1993 documentary
The Rise and Fall of English Montreal dealt with the second large
Quebec diaspora that began in the 1960s and accelerated rapidly after the
1976 Quebec election. The
National Post wrote that he said that
Torontonians should express their gratitude to a major benefactor of the city and erect a very large heroic statue at the head of
Bay Street of former
Premier of Quebec René Lévesque.
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Weintraub published four books after his seventieth birthday including
City Unique (
1996), an exploration of English Montreal in the 1940s and 1950s.
In 2003, he was made an Officer of the
Order of Canada.
The citation reads: "As a journalist, author, filmmaker and lecturer,
William Weintraub has played a major role in our country's artistic and
intellectual life".
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