Edward Kay

Have just finished the third draft of the book formerly known as Special Ed. Apparently to avoid confusion with the threatened release of a serious tome regarding special education that apparently will go by the same name, Special Ed the novel has been retitled as STAR Academy. STAR is a wildly clever acronym that stands for, um, an amusing combination of words that my wonderful editor at Doubleday, Amy Black, and I are still sorting out. Nothing like a little pressure to get the creative juices flowing…

My work on Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister is now just a distant memory of teleprompter rewrites and committee meetings. It will air on CBC March 18th at 8 pm, immediately following Jeopardy! It’s a great tie in, not just because Alex Trebek is hosting both shows, but because after you finish gloating over the fact that you’re smarter than the Jeopardy! contestants (always a fave pastime for armchair trivia buffs) you can watch the four would-be Prime Minister candidates on CNGPM and imagine just how much more passionate and articulate you would have been than those young whelps, and how you would have come up with better answers to the sadistically difficult questions written for them to test their political mettle. Or that you would have come up with questions that were far more sadistic than those created by the dim-witted writer (see aforementioned committee meetings). You might also muse that you’d have better uses for the $50,000 prize that one of the lucky sods walked away with. Added bonus: you get to see four actual ex-PMs – Brian Mulroney, Joe Clark, Kim Campbell, and Paul Martin – and imagine how much better you would have run the country than any of them.

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