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Bruce McDonald (born May 28, 1959 in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian film and television director. May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kingston, Ontario, is a historic city in Ontario, Canada, located in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, where the lake runs into the St. ...

His films have included Roadkill (1989), Highway 61 (1991), Dance Me Outside (1994), Hard Core Logo (1996) and Claire’s Hat (2001). Roadkill is a 1989 film by Canadian director Bruce McDonald. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Highway 61 is a 1991 film by Canadian director Bruce McDonald. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dance Me Outside is a 1994 film by Bruce McDonald. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Hard Core Logo is a classic Canadian mockumentary adapted by Noel Baker from the novel of the same name by author Michael Turner. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

He has also directed episodes of many television series, including Lonesome Dove, Twitch City, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Queer as Folk and ReGenesis. Lonesome Dove, written by Larry McMurtry, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning western novel and the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series. ... Twitch City was a Canadian sitcom produced by the CBC. The series aired as two short runs in 1998 and 2000. ... Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian television series, which follows the lives of a group of high school students. ... Queer as Folk was an American television series produced by Showtime, which was based on the British series of the same name created by Russell T. Davies. ... ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central. ...

He is currently at work on an animated adaptation of the cult comic book Yummy Fur, and has recently completed shooting The Tracey Fragments (2007) in Toronto. The Tracey Fragments is a film directed by Canadian Bruce McDonald, written by Maureen Medved and based on her book of the same name (published by House of Anansi Press). ...

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Bruce McDonald at the Internet Movie Database

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Hard Core Logo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (965 words)
	McDonald grew up in the Vancouver punk rock scene in the late '70s and early '80s and was drawn to Michael Turner's book about aging musicians.
	McDonald commented in an interview, "what I thought was really interesting is where it is 15 years later, and what are these guys doing now." He had just come off the critically acclaimed Dance Me Outside and friends warned him not to repeat himself by making another road movie.
	Although music figures heavily in the film, a conventional soundtrack album was not initially released; instead, McDonald had several notable Canadian bands record covers of the songs in the film, and packaged them as if they were a tribute album to a real band.

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	The Knights Templars fought with Bruce in the battle under the command of Angus Og McDonald, who was a large Scottish landowner and a friend of Bruce.
	Linda McDonald at the age of 58 and living at Vancouver, B.C. was able to prove that Cameron did programming using drugs, electroshock, psychic driving, depatterning, etc.) She has no memory of her childhood, but was able to prove that in 1963 at age 26 she was given mind control programming.
	Some unknown person had tipped McDonald off that Oswald was in the theater, and the police had for some reason already decided Oswald was guilty because while arresting him the policeman was heard saying by witnesses, "Kill the President, will you." And yet the Warren Commission said that Oswald was not a suspect until later.

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