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Last week we wet your appetite. Here now is the extended clip of Rick Mercer and Rick Hansen (wheelchair and all!) going bungee jumping in beautiful British Columbia. Damn, the Rick Mercer Report is h-i-l-a-r-i-o-u-s!:
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The Rick Mercer Report’s seventh season premiere is TONIGHT (September 29th) on CBC-TV. You’ll have a chance to see:
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(8:30 in Newfoundland)
As most of you probably know, Rick Hansen is a truly iconic Canadian who was in an automobile crash at age 15 that left him a paraplegic. In 1985, after winning 19 international wheelchair marathons, he began his dream to circumnavigate the earth and raise awareness and money for spinal cord injury victims. Two years later he completed 40,000 km and raised $26 million. Today he is (among many many things) the President and CEO of the extremely successful and influential Rick Hansen Foundation.
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Then…
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The winner of the 2009 Short Film Faceoff—a competition co-sponsored by CBC Television in the Maritimes and the Atlantic Film Festival Association—is Glamour Guts, directed by Jasmine Oore (who was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease as a teen and had her colon removed in 2002). Oore’s win includes a $35,000 development/production deal from the CBC for her next project. The film has been described as “a three-minute blast of furious cinematic whimsy detailing one woman’s recovery from permanent digestive rearrangements” and “a shrewdly timed, freeze-frame-filled laugh riot.”
Bowel Disease has never been this sexy, glamorous, or in vogue!
