Harron ’ s first stepmother, Virginia Leith, was discovered by Stanley Kubrick and acted in his first film, Fear and Desire.

Harron ’ s stepfather is Stephen Vizinczey, a novelist and screen writer, and another of her stepmothers is the singer Catherine McKinnon.

Harron ’ s sister, Kelley Harron, is an actor and producer.

During the 90s, Harron moved back to New York, where she worked as a producer for PBS ’ s “ Edge ,” a program dedicated to exploring American pop culture.

Despite signing Harron to the project, the film was mired in controversy before production began, due in large part to the legacy of the book ’ s release. As Harron began production, the crew had to contend with threats of protest, as the issue of violence in the media became crystallized by the Columbine shootings.

For this project, as well as for I Shot Andy Warhol, Harron had to do historical research and interviewed several friends of Page ’ s, as well as her first husband.

Harron saw Page as an unwitting feminist figure who represented a movement for women ’ s sexual liberation, ironically similar, yet dissimilar to Solanas.

Sinclair was a panelist on the show Court of Opinion for twenty-four years, hosted Man at the Centre and was a guest host during the second season of The Nature of Things as well as a frequent contributor to Morningside when Don Harron was host but he was best known for presenting the CBC Radio program Ideas beginning in 1983.

The movie marked the debut of Canadian director Mary Harron.

While Solanas was never able to produce her play, Harron was able to make her movie and was able to tell Solanas ' story.

In An Inside Look at the Pin-Up Queen of the Universe, a bonus feature on the DVD release of the film, producer Pamela Koffler and screenwriter / director Marry Harron discuss their decision to film most of the movie in black-and-white, which they felt not only perfectly captured the nostalgic mood of the period but also had a psychological impact on the audience.

* 1893 – Robert Harron, American actor ( d. 1920 )

* 1903 – John Harron, American actor ( d. 1939 )

* November 24 – John Harron, American actor ( b. 1903 )

* September 5 – Robert Harron, American actor ( b. 1893 )

* April 12 – Robert Harron, American actor ( d. 1920 )

* Mary Harron — Canadian screenwriter and filmmaker, known for American Psycho

Mary Harron ( born January 12, 1953 ) is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter best known for her films I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page.

Turner and I Shot Andy Warhol director Mary Harron wrote a screenplay, which ended up being selected for the film version of Bret Easton Ellis ' American Psycho.

* April 12-Robert Harron, American actor ( died 1920 )

It was on The Big Revue that Don Harron introduced TV audiences to his country bumpkin alter ego, " Charlie Farquharson " ( who years later would be immortalized on the American series Hee Haw and the Canadian series The Red Green Show.

Harron's daughter Mary Harron from an earlier marriage to Gloria Fisher, is a noted independent film director whose credits include I Shot Andy Warhol and American Psycho.

She was later in American Psycho ( 2000 ), directed by Mary Harron, an adaptation of the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name.

The Bad Boy was released on February 18, and featured Robert Harron, Richard Cummings, Josephine Crowell, and Mildred Harris ( who would later become Charles Chaplin's first wife ).

In the screenplay, Harron and Minahan describe Solanas as " banging at an ancient typewriter " and the film frequently shows her typing, for which she is mocked by Warhol and other Factory regulars.

Her mother, Gloria Fisher, is a Kansas-born actress, and her father, Donald Harron, is an actor, author, director, comedian, and writer.

The Notorious Bettie Page is a 2005 biographical film directed by Mary Harron.

There's no sense of any particular commitment to the leading character ... result is a strangely placid, unchallenging picture with no blood in its veins ... Gretchen Mol is splendid to behold in every stage of dress or undress, but Harron and co-scenarist Guinevere Turner offer no clues as to what might be going on inside the dark-haired beauty's head and heart ... Mol's Bettie is compliant, almost always open to any request and never disagreeable.

The book is by Don Harron, the music is by Norman Campbell and the lyrics by Don Harron, Norman Campbell, Elaine Campbell and Mavor Moore.

Donald H. Harron, ( born September 19, 1924 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a Canadian comedian, actor, director, journalist, author and composer.

Harron is best known for the character Charlie Farquharson, a personality he first portrayed in 1952 on the CBC series The Big Revue and used as part of the cast of the U. S. country music television show, Hee Haw.

Gary Arthur Harron is a politician and administrator in Ontario, Canada.

However socio-critic Mary Harron in her book McRock: Pop as Commodity said that the underlying message in the video is that though Madonna sells sexuality, she is free.

Two rural-style comedians, already well known in their native Canada, gained their first major U. S. exposure — Gordie Tapp and Don Harron ( whose KORN Radio character, newscaster Charlie Farquharson, had been a fixture of Canadian television since 1952 and later appeared on The Red Green Show ).

Harron would later resurrect the character on The Red Green Show.

Had WMTW-DT been built on the mountain, it would have had to operate at low-power due to the lack of commercial electric power ( in fact, Harron was legally the power company on the mountain ).

In a 2009 interview with Black Book, director Mary Harron said, " We talked about how Martian-like character Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave, and then one day called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.

Like Page, Harron also does not follow a strict feminist ideology, but has instead openly explored issues, instead of tying herself to a single perspective on gender.

In 2005, Mary Harron was honored with the Filmmaker on the Edge Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival.

The screenplay by Harron and Guinevere Turner focuses on 1950s pinup and bondage model Bettie Page.

Of Harron and Turner he said " They tell Page's story in a curiously uninflected way, revealing little, if any, point of view, and imposing no meaning or particular importance on this woman's life.

Harron has been a fixture of Canadian television for years, including on The Red Green Show.

William Hutt, Don Harron, Kate Reid, David Gardner, Arthur Hiller, Donald Sutherland, Norman Jewison and Lorne Michaels all got their start treading the boards on the Hart House stage.