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Atom Egoyan's Ararat was given the honor of opening the 2002 Toronto Film Festival and Bruce Greenwood attended the premiere with his wife Susan that was held on September 5th, as well as the press conference, which was held the following day. Others there included Atom and Atom's wife Arsinée Khanjian, David Alpay, Eric Bogosian, and Marie-Josée Crose.
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Fri Sep 6, 2:16 AM ET By Zorianna Kit and Etan Vlessing TORONTO (The Hollywood Reporter) --- The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off its 27th edition Thursday night in a low-key manner for the hometown crowd with the North American premiere of native son Atom Egoyan's "Ararat." Eager fans lined up along the red carpet outside Roy Thomson Hall downtown to catch a glimpse of Egoyan, his wife and the film's star, Arsinee Khanjian, and the film's Bruce Greenwood, as well as other stars walking up the red carpet to the entrance lobby. |
 Veteran of TV and screen, and Atom Egoyan favorite
(he also starred in The Sweet Hereafter),
Bruce Greenwood arrived on the carpet with his high school
sweetheart/longtime wife. |
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Toronto Sun
Sept 7, 2002Good Luck Charm: Perpetually pleasant actor Bruce Greenwood (Thirteen Days, Double Jeopardy) wore a jade pendant to the opening-night party at Rosewater Supper Club.
The pendant was made, and blessed for him, by a Maori tribeswomen while he was filming in New Zealand. It's his good-luck charm. Considering how busy he has been lately, it must be working.
Greenwood co-stars in Atom Egoyan's Ararat, the opening-night Gala on Thursday.
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A series of photos of Bruce and Susan from the Globe & Mail | |||
Montreal Gazette
Sept 7, 2002
For actor Bruce Greenwood, however, who plays an American doctor whose eyewitness account of events at the time are the foundation for Ararat, no such ambivalence exists. "Before I made the film the term 'Armenian genocide' existed only in the dustiest recesses of my mind," said Greenwood, a longtime Egoyan ensemble player and the acclaimed star of last year's Thirteen Days. "Then Atom suggested I read Clarence Usher's 1917 book An American Physician in Turkey. That was the beginning of my education.
"I don't know why it was kept quiet for so long. Perhaps there's only so much historical misery we're capable of handling. As germane as it is in today's world to be reminded of how brutal we can be to one another, it's still hard to reach into the bag of snakes that is our history."
 Toronto Film Festival Web Site |
 Pulse 24 / Toronto Film Festival Site |
| Montreal Gazette article 9/7/02 |
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