Niagara Falls In Pop Culture

Graham on January 25th, 2012

From the Niagara Falls Review: As tensions rise between the border guard and suspicious driver at the Rainbow Bridge, Jonathan Sobol can’t keep a straight face. He’s watching on a monitor ten feet away as the guard, played by Canadian comedian Mike Wilmott, asks the driver – actor Jay Baruchel – what’s in the trunk [...]

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Graham on January 24th, 2012

As I tweeted yesterday, there is a movie shooting in Niagara Falls. It stars Kurt Russell, Matt Dillon, and others. WIVB Channel 4 in Buffalo and the Niagara Falls Review both reported on it. WIVB Channel 4 in Buffalo – Kurt Russell movie shooting in the Falls Niagara Falls Review – Kurt Russell, Matt Dillon [...]

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Graham on January 23rd, 2012

From the Niagara Falls Review: As one of the most famous and most visited places in the world, it’s only natural that the motion picture industry has been drawn to Niagara Falls a number of times. One of those times came in mid-September 1979 when some scenes for Superman II were filmed here, providing visitors [...]

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Graham on October 25th, 2011

I posted recently about Spandy Andy. Well, the Clifton Hill Blog caught up with him recently and asked him some questions. The “interview” doesn’t reveal much, but it is interesting, and there is at least one reference to Niagara Falls.

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From Playbill.com: Tony Award-nominated composer-lyricist-librettist Michael John LaChiusa takes on an American icon in Queen of the Mist, starring Tony nominee Mary Testa as Anna Edson Taylor, the first person to survive the plunge over Niagara Falls. The Transport Group’s environmental staging begins performances Oct. 18 at The Gym at Judson Memorial Church… Here’s how [...]

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Graham on September 12th, 2011

From the Niagara Falls Review: Bringing the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show to Ontario will cost four taxpayer-funded funded tourist agencies a total of $450,000, according to the Niagara-based tourism organization involved in the effort to bring segments of the ABC late-night show to Canada. “There is funding involved. It’s about a half a million dollars [...]

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Graham on September 12th, 2011

From the Niagara Falls Review: The Jimmy Kimmel Show will be filming segments in Niagara Falls next week, but it’s still unclear whether Kimmel himself will be here. Robin Garrett, CEO of the Tourism Partnership of Niagara, said there’s no guarantee the popular ABC talk show host will appear, but “we are negotiating that as [...]

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Graham on August 30th, 2011

Note: This is another one of my long-forgotten drafts. It used to be that trading cards were the big thing. You coould (and I cans you still can) collect cards for almost anything. There were sports cards, TV show cards, movie cards, and more. Did you know there were also Niagara Falls cards? At one [...]

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Graham on August 17th, 2011

If you’ve been following the blog for a long time, you will probably know that I am a fan of the Drabble cartoon. You may even recall that the characters in Drabble travelled to Niagara Falls 6 years ago and I was even able to contact Kevin Fagan for some comments. Today’s Drabble comic isn’t [...]

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Graham on May 16th, 2011

From Niagara This Week: As a highly successful fantasy writer, Chris Van Allsburg knows first-hand that the only limitation on a great story is one’s imagination. But when it comes to dabbling in reality, the renowned children’s novelist and illustrator had to peer over the edge and simply hope for the best with his latest [...]

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