Rick Moranis
Rick Moranis
Frederick Allan "Rick" Moranisis a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter and songwriter. He came to prominence in the sketch comedy series Second City Televisionin the 1980s and later appeared in several Hollywood films, including Strange Brew, Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, Little Shop of Horrors, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Parenthood, My Blue Heaven, and The Flintstones...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 April 1953
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV.
What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.
Canada Day comes and goes modestly every year. Sure, there are retail sales promotions and a long weekend. But there isn't bluster or commodity in Canadian celebration. Canada isn't big on bunting. Or jet flyovers, fireworks, marching bands or military pomp.
It's hard to improvise that kind of stuff, whereas the McKenzies are easy to improvise, because it's the two of us, and the material is pretty basic.
It's just I fell into a bunch of movies that kind of fit in my life. It made sense to do them in the '80s. Folks who know me think it's hilarious.
When we were producing the Great White North comedy album, my experience in radio told me I needed two singles in order to get enough airplay.
I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.
I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band.
There's a gray area between Conservative and Orthodox people, for whom you don't screw around with the mezuzah, you don't mess with the holy melodies.
Until 1982, Canada Day was known as Dominion Day. I always thought that had more of a ring to it. Beyond the zippy alliteration, it reminded us citizens that our domain of orderly domesticity was graced by the dominant power of our 'Dominus.'
There are fans of some of the old movies that'll mention those, and there's people that have little kids that'll look at me and say, 'Wow, I just watched 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' 35,000 times, and here you are!'
By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I'm really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody's precious words work.
I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.
I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.