Daniel Woolf πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social
Daniel Woolf πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
@woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social

History professor & Principal Emeritus, Queen's University. Interests include historiography/theory, and early modern Britain. Also woolfd1958 on 'Threads'. Dog servant to Layla and occasional practitioner of several hobbies; part time radio show host. .. more

Daniel Robert Woolf is a British-Canadian historian and former university administrator. He served as the 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, a position to which he was appointed in January 2009 and took up on 1 September 2009. He was previously a professor of history and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. He was reappointed to a second 5-year term in 2013. In late 2017, Woolf announced his intention not to serve a third term and to retire from university administration at the end of his second term in 2019. He was succeeded by Patrick Deane, and became Principal Emeritus. .. more

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Born OTD 100 years ago, the great saxophonist John Coltrane. Even most non-jazz folk know this name after a meteoric, short, but revolutionary career cut short not by drugs like several of his contempories, but by cancer.

Agreed re both GG and Phantom. Film didn't do well commercially except in a few places; notably my home city of Winnipeg, Canada, where it ran for months and months. 16-year-old me probably saw it 5 times. IMHO a better film (and soundtrack) than the overrated RHPS.

RIP Gerrit Graham (b 1948). A steady career in film and tv up till 2012. His most memorable turns came early, in 2 of my favourite underrated films: in Robert Zemeckis' early hit Used Cars (1980), and above all as "Beef" the glam-rocker in Brian De Palma's immortal Phantom of the Paradise (1974).

On today's @CFRC Dark Glasses, it's Trane time: a show entirely devoted to the early and mid-career of John Coltrane to mark the centenary of his birth on Sept 23. We'll feature some of his first work as a leader together with collaborations with Miles, Thelonious, and the Duke. Tune in at 2 EDT.