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The ADISQ (Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque, du spectacle et de la vidéo) is a nonprofit organization with the mission to help the music industry in Quebec. It was created in 1978.

Since 1979 it has also organized an annual award ceremony to reward musicians and singers. The award is named Félix.

External links[link]

• (French) ADISQ Official Site

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Louis-José Houde (born October 19, 1977 in Saint-Apollinaire, Quebec) is a French-Canadian comedian, who mostly does stand-up comedy and also has his own TV show. Recently Houde has broken into acting in feature films, such as the 2006 hit movie, Bon Cop, Bad Cop and the 2009 hit movie De père en flic (Fathers and Guns). He is a graduate of Quebec's École nationale de l'humour.

Houde has hosted two TV shows on Radio-Canada: Louis-José Houde, à suivre... (2005) and Ici Louis-José Houde (2006). In 2003, he won a Félix Award for comic show of the year.

Houde championed Un petit pas pour l'homme by Stéphane Dompierre in Le combat des livres 2006.

Houde is particularly known for his extremely quick speech.

External links[link]

• Official website
• Louis-José Houde at the Internet Movie Database

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Plume at the 13 festiblues de Montréal 12 August 2010

Plume Latraverse (born Michel Latraverse May 11, 1946) is a prolific singer, musician, songwriter and author from Quebec. His career spans over 30 years; Latraverse is probably one of the most influential names in Quebec counterculture.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Plumonymes (Oct.2008)
• Chansons nouvelles - revisitées (2008)
• Hors-Saisons (2007)
• Chants d'Épuration (2003)
• Mixed Grill (1998)
• Chansons Nouvelles (1994)
• Chansons Pour Toutes Sortes de Monde (1990)
• D'un Début À l'Autre (1987)
• Insomni-fère (méphortamoses III)(1985)
• Les Mauvais Compagnons (métaphorme...ose II) (1984)
• Autopsie Canalisée (1983)
• Métamorphoses Tôme I (1982)
• Livraison par en-arrière (1981)
• French Tour 1980 (fausse représentation) (1980)
• Chirurgie Plastique (1979)
• All Dressed (1978)
• À Deux Faces (1976)
• Pommes De Route (1975)
• Le Vieux Show Son Sale (1975)
• Plume Pou Digne (1974)
• Triniterre (1971)

Live albums[link]

• Vingtemps (2001)
• À Fond d'Train (1983)
• Cinéma Outremont (1977)
• En Noir Et Blanc (1976)

Compilations[link]

• Le Lour Passé De Plume Latraverse Vol. V (1995)
• Le Lour Passé De Plume Latraverse Vol. IV (1992)
• Le Lour Passé De Plume Latraverse Vol. III (1990)
• Le Lour Passé De Plume Latraverse Vol. II (1989)
• Le Lour Passé De Plume Latraverse Vol. I (1988)
• Les Plus Pires Succès de Plume (1976)

Singles[link]

• Rideau / Bossa-Mota
• Bobépine / Lit vert
• La bienséance / U.F.O
• Salusoleil / Le retour à la terre
• La p'tite vingnenne pis l'gros torrieu / Houba houba
• Le grand barda / Marie-Lou
• Mognon donc / New Orleans
• Salut Trenet / Cul-d'sac rock
• Quatre ans après / Élégie
• Le fermier Jean / Valse cliché
• Dis-moé / On peut pas tout avoir
• Parade de mode / Descente aux enfers
• La piste cyclable / Ti-gars
• La ballade de Sandale et Gandhi / Instrumental
• Tant qu'on pourra
• El Nino
• La journée du chèque

Books[link]

• Contes gouttes ISBN 2-89005-249-4 (1990)
• Pas d'admission sans histoire ISBN 2-89005-528-0 (1993)
• Striboule ISBN 2-89005-609-0 (1995)

External links[link]

• Official site in French
• Biography in French

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Martin Deschamps (born June 23, 1970)^[1] is a Canadian rock singer from Quebec. He records and performs both as a solo artist and as the lead vocalist for the reunited Offenbach.

Young age[link]

Deschamps was born with congenital deformities of all four limbs; he is missing both his left arm and right leg, and has only two fingers on his right hand.

At the age of 9, his family moved to Rawdon, Quebec. During his youth, his handicap was not mocked in school. He entertained his student friends in class and maintained good enough grades to be the first of his class.^[1]

He started playing the drums when he reached 11 years of age, and by the age of 15, he was playing bass guitar and started singing. From 1989 to 1995 he was a graphic designer for Bell company. The first band he played in was called Any Way, as their drummer. Knowing he wanted to become a band leader, he formed his own group called Deep Freeze.^[1]

Career[link]

Martin Deschamps performing at the Opening ceremony for the 2010 Paralympics.

Opening ceremony, 2010 Paralympics.

His musical career began in 1996 when, with that group, he was named best vocalist in the L'Empire des futures stars competition. He was subsequently invited to join rock band Offenbach on a reunion tour as the replacement for the late Gerry Boulet, and immediately departed on a 50-show tour. He then released his own solo debut, Comme je suis, in 2000. Selling 60,000 copies in Quebec, the album spawned three hit singles and was nominated for three Félix Awards, for best new artist, best rock album and best single ("Quand").

For his second album, 2001's Différent, he donated a portion of the profits to Montreal's Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine, and subsequently became a spokesperson for the province's Semaine des personnes handicapées.

He subsequently recorded two songs for the soundtrack to Denise Filiatrault's film L'Odyssée d'Alice Tremblay and a duet with Lynda Lemay, and mounted a successful concert tour in France.

His third album, Le Désert, was released in 2003. That album's single "Vérité" spent five weeks at #1 on Quebec's pop charts.

Offenbach subsequently released the album Nature in 2005, and Deschamps toured with the band that year.

He performed during the 2010 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony.

He performed at the state funeral for Jack Layton, deceased leader of the New Democratic Party, on August 27, 2011.

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• (French) Official site

Steven Hill
Hill as Dan Briggs.
Born	Solomon Krakovsky (1922-02-24) February 24, 1922 (age 90) Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Occupation	actor
Spouse	Selma Stern (1951–1964); Rachel (1967-present)

Steven Hill (born February 24, 1922) is an American film and television actor. His two better-known roles are District Attorney Adam Schiff on the NBC TV drama series Law & Order, whom he portrayed for ten seasons (1990–2000), and Dan Briggs, the original team leader of the Impossible Missions Force on CBS's television series Mission: Impossible, whom he portrayed only in the initial season of the show (1966–1967).

Early life and career[link]

Hill was born Solomon Krakovsky in Seattle, Washington.^[1] After serving four years in the Naval Reserve, Hill made his first New York stage appearance in Ben Hecht's A Flag Is Born in 1946, which also featured a young Marlon Brando.^[1] Hill says his big break came when he landed a small part in the hit Broadway show Mister Roberts.^[1] "The director, Joshua Logan, thought I had some ability, and he let me create one of the scenes," says Hill.^[1] "So, I improvised dialog and it went in the show. That was my first endorsement. It gave me tremendous encouragement to stay in the business."^[1] Hill said this was a thrilling time in his life when, fresh out of the service, he played the hapless sailor Stefanowski.^[2] "You could almost smell it from the very first reading that took place; this is going to be an overwhelming hit," said Hill.^[2] "We all felt it and experienced it and were convinced of it, and we were riding the crest of a wave from the very first day of rehearsals."^[2]

In 1947, Hill became a founding member of Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio alongside such other actors as Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Julie Harris.^[3]

Hill made his film debut in 1950 in Lady Without a Passport.^[3] He then re-enlisted in the Navy in 1952 for two years and, when he completed his service, resumed his acting in earnest.^[3] Strasberg later said, "Steven Hill is considered one of the finest actors America has ever produced".^[3] When he was starting out as an actor, Hill sought out roles that had a social purpose.^[1] "Later, I learned that show business is about entertaining," he says.^[1] "So, I've had to reconcile my idealistic feelings with reality".^[1]

Hill was particularly busy in the so-called "Golden Age" of live TV drama, appearing in such prestigious video offerings as The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1960 earning him an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Bartolomeo Vanzetti.^[3] "When I first became an actor, there were two young actors in New York: Marlon Brando and Steven Hill," said Martin Landau.^[3] "A lot of people said that Steven would have been the one, not Marlon. He was legendary. Nuts, volatile, mad, and his work was exciting".^[3]

In 1961, Hill had an unusual experience when he appeared as Sigmund Freud on Broadway in Henry Denker's A Far Country,^[4] portraying Freud at the age of 35.^[5] On April 12, 1961, Hill was stricken with a virus the night of a sold-out performance for the Masters Children's Center of Dobbs Ferry.^[6] As a result, the producers decided to cancel the performance just as the curtain was about to go up.^[6] Among the notables in the audience were Joseph P. Kennedy, Jack Benny, and Richard Rodgers.^[6] The audience was invited to exchange its ticket stubs for other performances.^[6] The understudy was not ready to replace Hill, so Alfred Ryder, the play's director, stepped into the role of Freud for one performance.^[7] Hill guested in the original Robert Stack series The Untouchables episode: 'Jack 'Legs' Diamond' as the title gangster character giving a compelling cold evil performance, and a similar sinister role as a confined to bed (following an accident) ruthless manipulative millionaire in 'The White Knight' a 1966 black & white third season episode of The Fugitive, starring David Janssen.

Hill's early screen credits include The Goddess and A Child Is Waiting.

[edit] Mission: Impossible

Hill was the original leader of the Impossible Missions Force, Dan Briggs in the series Mission: Impossible beginning in 1966. The phrase "Good morning, Mr. Briggs..." was a fixture early in each episode as it began a tape recording he retrieved which detailed the task he must accomplish, however he left the show in 1967 after the end of the first season. As one of the few Orthodox Jewish actors working in Hollywood, he made it clear in advance of production that he was not able to work on the Sabbath (i.e., sundown Friday to dusk Saturday), and that he would be leaving the set every Friday before sundown. However, despite Hill's advance warnings, the show's producers were unprepared for his rigid adherence to the Sabbath, and on at least one occasion Hill left the set while an episode was still in the midst of filming. The producers used a number of ways of reducing the role of Hill's character Dan Briggs whereby his character would only obtain and hand out the mission details at the start of certain episodes being unable to take further part as he was 'known' to people they would encounter (used at least three times), or Briggs would need to don a disguise and another actor would then play his role incognito until the conclusion of the mission (and episode) when Briggs peeled off a face mask. On other occasions Briggs would be waiting to pick up the team at the end; usually Martin Landau's character 'Rollin Hand' would take over as the team leader for missions in Briggs' absence (Martin Landau being initially a 'special guest star' for the first season, not even included in the show's original opening credits).

According to Desilu executive Herb Solow, once William Shatner burst into his office, claiming "Steve asked me how many Jews worked on Star Trek. He was recruiting a prayer group of ten guys to worship together on top of the studio's highest building and only had six Jews so far from Mission. He asked if I would come and bring Nimoy and Justman and you."^[8]

Hill was briefly suspended from the show near the end of the season, during the production of episode no. 23 (entitled 'Action!'- where for the only time Barbara Bain's character 'Cinnamon Carter' obtained the mission via the taped instructions, though Landau's 'Rollin Hand' then led the team). The suspension was imposed after he refused to climb the rafters via a soundstage staircase, as was called for in the script.^[9] (This incident was unrelated to any religious observances of Hill's.) Consequently, Hill was written out of that episode, and when he returned to Mission: Impossible for the five remaining episodes of the season, his role was severely reduced. Hill was not asked to return for season 2, and was replaced as the show's star by Peter Graves.^[10] No onscreen explanation was ever given regarding Dan Briggs' later absence from the series. Steven Hill was however featured prominently as Dan Briggs in around 17 or so of the first season episodes.

Hiatus and return to acting[link]

After appearing in Mission: Impossible, Hill did no acting work for the following ten years. Hill had what he calls "tremendous periods of unemployment" in his career.^[1] "What we have here is a story of profound instability and impermanence," he said of his own career.^[1] "This is what you learn at the beginning in show business; then it gets planted in you forever".^[1] Hill left acting in 1967 and moved to a Jewish community in Rockland County, New York where he worked in writing and real estate.^[11] Patrick J. White, in The Complete "Mission: Impossible" Dossier, quoted Hill as having said later, "I don't think an actor should act every single day. I don't think it's good for the so-called creative process. You must have periods when you leave the land fallow, let it revitalize itself."^[11] After ten years, he was ready to begin acting again. "They say you can't quit show business," he said in 1977. "It took ten years, but I couldn't get it out of my system. So I called an agent and put him to work."

Hill returned to work in the 1980s and 1990s, playing parental and authority-figure roles in such films as Yentl (1983), Garbo Talks (1984), Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, Heartburn (1986), and Billy Bathgate (1991). Hill also appeared as a mob kingpin in Raw Deal (1986), an action vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[edit] Law & Order

Hill is best known as Adam Schiff in the NBC TV drama series Law & Order, a part that he played for ten seasons (1990–2000). Hill's character is loosely modeled after the real former district attorney of New York, Robert Morgenthau^[12] and it is reported that Morgenthau was a fan of the character.^[13][14] Hill says playing Adam Schiff is the hardest role he's ever had because of all the legal jargon he has to learn.^[1] "It's like acting in a second language," says Hill.^[1] Hill adds that he agrees with the show's philosophy.^[1] "There's a certain positive statement in this show," Hill says.^[1] "So much is negative today. The positive must be stated to rescue us from pandemonium. To me it lies in that principle: law and order."^[1] Hill earned another Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor In a Dramatic Series in 1997. At the time of his departure, Hill was the longest-serving cast member. Along with Law & Order castmate Sam Waterston, Hill has also appeared in commercials for T.D. Waterhouse, an investment brokerage.

Personal life[link]

Hill and his first wife, Selma Stern, were married in 1951 and had four children before divorcing in 1964. Hill married his second wife, Rachel, in 1967 and they have five children.

His Orthodox Judaism[link]

Steven Hill (left) at his grandson's wedding in New Square, New York

Appearing in the play A Far Country in 1961 had a profound effect on Hill's later life. In one scene, a patient screams at Freud, "You are a Jew!" This caused Hill to think about his religion.^[3] "In the pause that followed I would think, 'What about this?' I slowly became aware that there was something more profound going on in the world than just plays and movies and TV shows. I was provoked to explore my religion."^[3] He was inspired by Rabbi Yakov Yosef Twersky (1900–1968), the late Skverrer Rebbe,^[15] to adhere to strict Orthodox Judaism, observing a kosher diet, praying three times a day, wearing a four-cornered fringed garment beneath his clothes, and strictly observing Shabbat.^[3] This made Hill unavailable for Friday night or Saturday matinee performances, effectively ending his stage career and closing many roles to him in the movies, most notably The Sand Pebbles.^[3]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Steven Hill at the Internet Movie Database