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Toronto Star - mentions his role in X3 which I've highlighted:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1135249509578&call_pageid=968867495754
Stocking stuffers for wannabe know-it-alls
Dec. 24, 2005. 01:00 AM
RITA ZEKAS
He's a VCA (veteran character actor), broadcaster, former deejay and producer and does voice work. But I didn't know Doug Lennox was an author.
"Neither did I," he laughs, over beverages upstairs at Bistro 990, the downstairs spilling over with Christmas lunches.
He is author of Now You Know, The Book of Answers, volumes 1 through 3. The first two were national bestsellers; the third just hit the market.
Volume 3 features answers to such seasonal questions as: Why is an altered alcoholic drink called a "mickey?"
How did the poinsettia, a Mexican weed, become associated with Christmas?
Considering his workload, how much time does Santa spend at each child's home?
No free samples. You'll have to buy the book to find out.
The books are based on scripts from Lennox's nationally syndicated radio show Now You Know. He is also in the 12th year of his radio program Life in the 20th Century, featuring daily 90-second time capsules of historic moments recorded in music and sound during the 20th century. It airs in this market on CFRB and reaches an audience of more than a million Canadians throughout the country.
His radio career started in 1968 when he took over the overnight slot at CHFI. He has written, produced and directed countless radio and TV programs and worked with everyone from Juliette to Ronnie Hawkins.
"History fascinated me," he explains. "When I became a deejay, I found out-of-date records that had been shuffled away the CBC archives are especially awesome. The stuff was shoved in a corner."
Lennox made copies and squirrelled them away in his house. "I can't throw things out," he admits. "Don't look in my closet. Thirty years later, I had wonderful stuff. I started a program with Standard Broadcasting and people were interested in stuff like Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig interviews. I ran the interviews wrapped up in a nice, concise program and they won a lot of awards."
And while he was archiving the material, he inadvertently became a social anthropologist. "I came across customs, habits, expressions and phrases. I'd come to our technicians and ask, `Do you realize where that came from? Now you know.' That was the kicker line."
He assembled all this arcane info into digestible, bite-sized 30-second feeds and marketed them as Now You Know, which features the etymology of phrases like eenie meenie miney mo: "It came from children watching the Druids choosing the next human sacrifice," he explains. "They were the big `it.'"
Lennox started acting in 1980 at the age of 40. His credits include 60 films and TV programs including X-Men, Against the Ropes, Police Academy, Nero Wolfe, Sins of the Father, Harlan County War and Mercy. He is the voice of Harvey's hamburgers.
He has worked with everyone from Meg Ryan to Wolverine (Hugh Jackman). In fact, he recently finished X-Men 3 in Vancouver, reprising his bartender role.
"Hugh Jackman and I did a scene for three days," he recalls. "It's at the end of the movie. In the first one, I was at the beginning of the movie when we discovered Wolverine's claws after he gets into a fight." On Jan. 7, he appears on the NBC series Darcy's Wild Life.
"I'm playing a big, heavy guy scaring the kids, a major part in my life," he chuckles. "One little freckled kid who was 8 or 9 years old said to me, `You are really a good actor.' I think because as the day evolved, he discovered I was really acting."
Lennox was born in Sudbury.
"Lois Maxwell told me, `If by some strange accident, your parents had gone to L.A. instead of Sudbury, you'd be a rich man.'" He joined the army in 1959 after his father's death.
"I dropped out of school when I was 16 after my dad died. I dug holes in the Trans Canada Highway and worked in the mines."
He was about to join the Mounties but friends dissuaded him, encouraging him to join the military police instead.
"I went down to sign up with my buddies but I was the only one accepted. I ended up in the Gaza Strip for a year of duty with the UN emergency force.
"I did a lot of things. I was a private investigator; I sold everything from business machines to health insurance."
He should write a book about his life. "A lot of people tell me that," he allows. "But I can't assume to be Margaret Atwood. How could I dare though my story is the story of my country. Take the expression, `Think outside the box.' I was born outside the box. You went all through school and graduated with several degrees. The box is your education. And that is why things interest me; I learn through observation. Here's my definition of the film business: "The writer is the architect, the producer is the contractor, the director is the builder and the actors have to live in the house."
And the agents clean up.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1135249509578&call_pageid=968867495754
Stocking stuffers for wannabe know-it-alls
Dec. 24, 2005. 01:00 AM
RITA ZEKAS
He's a VCA (veteran character actor), broadcaster, former deejay and producer and does voice work. But I didn't know Doug Lennox was an author.
"Neither did I," he laughs, over beverages upstairs at Bistro 990, the downstairs spilling over with Christmas lunches.
He is author of Now You Know, The Book of Answers, volumes 1 through 3. The first two were national bestsellers; the third just hit the market.
Volume 3 features answers to such seasonal questions as: Why is an altered alcoholic drink called a "mickey?"
How did the poinsettia, a Mexican weed, become associated with Christmas?
Considering his workload, how much time does Santa spend at each child's home?
No free samples. You'll have to buy the book to find out.
The books are based on scripts from Lennox's nationally syndicated radio show Now You Know. He is also in the 12th year of his radio program Life in the 20th Century, featuring daily 90-second time capsules of historic moments recorded in music and sound during the 20th century. It airs in this market on CFRB and reaches an audience of more than a million Canadians throughout the country.
His radio career started in 1968 when he took over the overnight slot at CHFI. He has written, produced and directed countless radio and TV programs and worked with everyone from Juliette to Ronnie Hawkins.
"History fascinated me," he explains. "When I became a deejay, I found out-of-date records that had been shuffled away the CBC archives are especially awesome. The stuff was shoved in a corner."
Lennox made copies and squirrelled them away in his house. "I can't throw things out," he admits. "Don't look in my closet. Thirty years later, I had wonderful stuff. I started a program with Standard Broadcasting and people were interested in stuff like Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig interviews. I ran the interviews wrapped up in a nice, concise program and they won a lot of awards."
And while he was archiving the material, he inadvertently became a social anthropologist. "I came across customs, habits, expressions and phrases. I'd come to our technicians and ask, `Do you realize where that came from? Now you know.' That was the kicker line."
He assembled all this arcane info into digestible, bite-sized 30-second feeds and marketed them as Now You Know, which features the etymology of phrases like eenie meenie miney mo: "It came from children watching the Druids choosing the next human sacrifice," he explains. "They were the big `it.'"
Lennox started acting in 1980 at the age of 40. His credits include 60 films and TV programs including X-Men, Against the Ropes, Police Academy, Nero Wolfe, Sins of the Father, Harlan County War and Mercy. He is the voice of Harvey's hamburgers.
He has worked with everyone from Meg Ryan to Wolverine (Hugh Jackman). In fact, he recently finished X-Men 3 in Vancouver, reprising his bartender role.
"Hugh Jackman and I did a scene for three days," he recalls. "It's at the end of the movie. In the first one, I was at the beginning of the movie when we discovered Wolverine's claws after he gets into a fight." On Jan. 7, he appears on the NBC series Darcy's Wild Life.
"I'm playing a big, heavy guy scaring the kids, a major part in my life," he chuckles. "One little freckled kid who was 8 or 9 years old said to me, `You are really a good actor.' I think because as the day evolved, he discovered I was really acting."
Lennox was born in Sudbury.
"Lois Maxwell told me, `If by some strange accident, your parents had gone to L.A. instead of Sudbury, you'd be a rich man.'" He joined the army in 1959 after his father's death.
"I dropped out of school when I was 16 after my dad died. I dug holes in the Trans Canada Highway and worked in the mines."
He was about to join the Mounties but friends dissuaded him, encouraging him to join the military police instead.
"I went down to sign up with my buddies but I was the only one accepted. I ended up in the Gaza Strip for a year of duty with the UN emergency force.
"I did a lot of things. I was a private investigator; I sold everything from business machines to health insurance."
He should write a book about his life. "A lot of people tell me that," he allows. "But I can't assume to be Margaret Atwood. How could I dare though my story is the story of my country. Take the expression, `Think outside the box.' I was born outside the box. You went all through school and graduated with several degrees. The box is your education. And that is why things interest me; I learn through observation. Here's my definition of the film business: "The writer is the architect, the producer is the contractor, the director is the builder and the actors have to live in the house."
And the agents clean up.
. There is Requiem for a Dream music in the background. I'm still like 
