WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER, SHOULD I BRING MY SKATES?

by Cranston, Toller. With Martha Lowder Kimball

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Book description: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2000, first edition.. 281 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0771023367 Pictorial endpapers, b&w photographs. "In this book, described by the authors as a 'contrapuntual companion volume' to its predecessor (Zero Tollerance), Toller reflects mor. e deeply on his truly extraordinary experiences. He describes both the women and men he has known and how they shaped and influenced him. He looks frankly at fame, how he lusted for it, luxuriated in it, and then perhaps either lost it or let it. g o. But most of all, he tells stories. These are often unexpected, frequently funny, and always entertaining. Among the vignettes recounted in these pages: The drive-in dalliance with an older woman who honked twice for love; The high-tech mill. i on aire who gave Toller carte blanche and an open cheque book to make over his mansion; The groupie who twice broke into Toller's residence and once greeted him naked but for an artistic arrangement of rose petals; The Hollywood shindig at which T. ol ler arrived wearing fox furs, silk pants, and calf-high leather boots, and found the other guests in T-shirts and jeans; The world's coldest skating gig - Winterlude on the frozen canal in Ottawa - where Toller, watched by mystified citizens dre. sse d in parkas and touques, skated in a spandex jumpsuit that stuck to the ice; Scenes from a film career in which Toller has a supporting role in a fairy tale and an unexpected cameo in a pornographic video. Toller describes with wry and wistful. ins ight his reluctant departure from the pro-skating circuit. He tells something of his struggle as an artist, the sources of his inspiration, the commissions he blithely accepted and desperately executed, the dealers who sold his work and then d. isapp eared . He brings the tale up to date with a bittersweet recounting of his (almost) last hurrah - the tribute show at Toronto's Varsity Arena graced by the presence of the skating world's most luminous talents. Not just for skating fans, thi. s is t he wit ty summation of a tumultuous life by a true Canadian original." Tiny bump at top of front hinge. Dust jacket has minor wrinkling at top of front hinge. Very Good+.

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