Larry Solway

Lawrence S. "Larry" Solway (13 August 1928[1] – 9 January 2012) was a Canadian actor and broadcaster.

Larry Solway
Born13 August 1928
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died9 January 2012(2012-01-09) (aged 83)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canada
Occupationbroadcaster
Years active1960s–1990s

Career

During the 1960s he hosted radio programmes at CHUM in Toronto such as the early Canadian talk show Speak Your Mind.[2][3] He left the station in 1970 due to a dispute with the station over a series of shows on sex. In the aftermath, he wrote The Day I Invented Sex about the controversy.[4]

Solway was known nationally as a panelist of the CBC Television programme This Is the Law in the early 1970s. He returned to the radio talk show circuit later that decade with Talkback on Brampton, Ontario station CHIC until management there dismissed him without warning.[5] He was seen in minor roles in films such as Meatballs and The Brood.[4] In the late 1970s he was a columnist for the newly launched Sunday Star.

He was a candidate for the Ontario New Democratic Party in the 1999 Ontario general election but was unsuccessful in his campaign in St. Paul's riding.[6]

In a column written for Straight Goods, Solway lamented the "Christmas Envy" that he felt as a Jew.[7]

Solway was diagnosed with bladder cancer at age 83. In November 2011 he wrote a final blog post to say goodbye to his readers. He died 9 January 2012, at Toronto General Hospital of complications arising from his bladder cancer.[4][8]

Radio

  • 1960s: Speak Your Mind, 1050 CHUM
  • September 1976 - January 1979: Talkback (CHIC)[5]
  • September 1986 – ?: Larry Solway Show, CFGM[9]
  • 1989 – ?: talk show, CFLY-FM[10] Talk show host CFRB 1991-92, Talk 640 1995-97

Television

Film

Books

  • The Day I Invented Sex (McClelland and Stewart, 1971; ISBN 978-0-7710-8205-4)
  • Don't Be Blindsided by Retirement (2008; ISBN 0-9783286-1-2). Author Andrew Bertram; Solway was a contributor.

Theatre

Returned to the stage 1979-1984. Appearances at Neptune Halifax, Oakville, Red Barn, Teller's Cage, National Arts Centre. Appeared in leading roles in "Same Times Next Year" "Plaza Suite" "The Subject Was Roses." "Last of the Red Hot Lovers."

gollark: > The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, “Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days.” Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition seven times seven (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven. The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed, but it must be less than 444.6C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8 says “But the fearful, and unbelieving … shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, or 444.6C (Above this point it would be a vapor, not a lake.) We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. – “Applied Optics”, vol. 11, A14, 1972
gollark: This is because it canonically receives 50 times the light Earth does.
gollark: Heaven is in fact hotter.
gollark: Hell is known to be maintained at a temperature of less than something like 460 degrees due to the presence of molten brimstone.
gollark: Despite humans' constant excretion of excess water, holy water levels are actually maintained in the body through the actions of the holicase enzyme.

References

  1. "Lawrence (Larry) Solway". Mount Pleasant Group. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
  2. 1050 Chum: Photo Gallery - 1960s
  3. "Direct dial citizen's forum". This Hour Has Seven Days. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 7 March 1965. Retrieved 11 July 2008.
  4. "Larry Solway, TV and radio broadcaster, dies at 83". The Toronto Star. 9 January 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
  5. Downey, Donn (9 January 1979). "Victim of 'general blood-letting' CHIC drops Larry Solway". The Globe and Mail. p. 13.
  6. "Ontario Votes 2003". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 11 July 2008.
  7. Solway, Larry. "Jewish and loving it...A frenzy of Christmas envy past and present". Straight Goods. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008. Retrieved 10 January 2012. I call it Christmas Envy. It comes back in a frenzy every year at this time. Awash in Chanukah, we Jews (some of us) try desperately to compensate for our lack of Christmas and trees and Santa and gifts and wassail and holly and Wise Men.
  8. "Deaths - Solway, Lawrence S. (Larry)". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. 11 January 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
  9. Mietkiewicz, Henry (17 September 1986). "Larry Solway phones home after 16 years". Toronto Star. p. F1.
  10. Burliuk, Greg (7 July 1989). "Play lets Solway combine three loves". Kingston Whig-Standard. p. 1.
  11. Allan, Blaine. "Juliette and Friends". Directory of CBC Television Series 1952-1982. Queen's University. Archived from the original on 1 June 2015.
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