Graduate Student gets threatened with lawsuit from Degrassi producers

Graduate Student gets threatened with lawsuit from Degrassi producers Mark Aaron Polger, a graduate student at the University of Waterloo, has been served with a statement of claim from Epitome Pictures, the company that produced the Degrassi Television Series (Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High, and The Kids of Degrassi Street). After declining to hand over…

Joey Jeremiah resurfaces as producer Pat Mastroianni

Joey Jeremiah resurfaces as producer Pat Mastroianni By Samantha Yaffe December 19, 2000 Page 16 Trying to shed his relentless association with Degrassi High, Pat Mastroianni (aka Joey Jeremiah) recently returned to Toronto after four years in l.a. wearing a new hat and a new buzz-cut coif. The former child actor, now 28 and engaged…

Pat Mastroianni Interview

Pat Mastroianni Michele Sponagle Saturday, September 16, 2000 Question: As host of Music Works on CBC (Tuesday at 5:30 p.m)., you follow in the footsteps of former host Alanis Morrissette. Are you a frustrated musician/singer yourself? A: Yes, it is true. I have held a dark secret all these years and it has to come…

Loser movie

I just saw in the theatre called Loser with Jason Biggs from American Pie was filmed in Toronto. Look closely for a brief appearance by Darrin Brown at the big party in the animal hospital (partygoer)

Stefan Brogren is in a GM commercial

Stefan Brogren is in a GM commercial. He is with two other people and they tell the guy who wants to purchase a car not to get more than 2.9% percent financing. The guy walks with balloons and gets 0.9% financing. Both think that the guy caved into the salesperson’s tactics but in fact he…

Degrassi stalker case highlights legal gray area

Degrassi stalker case highlights legal gray area By Greg Quill Toronto Star Arts Writer Canadian law is still catching up in the “gray area” of how to handle Internet and communications offences committed in other countries against Canadians in Canada. That’s the lesson to be learned, say prominent Canadian legal experts, from the dismissal Monday…

Degrassi's always greener once you've lived in L.A.

Degrassi’s always greener once you’ve lived in L.A. “SEE YA at Bam Boo for lunch,” we told Pat Mastroianni. Problem was, we saw him – but we didn’t recognize him. We were looking for a curly-haired Joey Jeremiah from Degrassi (Junior High and High). Who knew he had shaved his head? “It’s the Joey stigma,”…