The ALTdot COMedy Lounge has been running since the 1980s, and alternative acts that made their start there include The Kids in the Hall, Corky and the Juice Pigs, Jason Rouse, Sean Cullen, Shaun Majumder, The Minnesota Wrecking Crew, Ron Sparks, Levi MacDougall, Tim Polley, Harland Williams, The BOOM Show, Asiansploitation, The Sketchersons and many more.

Ann ( Sarah Polley ) is a hard-working 23-year-old mother with two small daughters, an unemployed husband ( Scott Speedman ), a mother ( Deborah Harry ) who sees her life as a failure, and a jailed father whom she has not seen in ten years.

Polley appeared topless in one episode, in which her character has a mastectomy because of breast cancer.

Sarah Polley plays Harper Sloane, a misfit in her snobbish and upperclass family, who has just gotten accepted to Harvard.

Following the row with Disney, Polley dedicated more of her efforts to politics, becoming a prominent member of the New Democratic Party, where Ontario legislator Peter Kormos was said to be her political mentor.

It took several months of persuasion by Polley before Christie finally accepted the role, which was written with her in mind.

He portrayed the drug dealer Todd Gaines in the comedy-drama Go ( 1999 ), directed by Doug Liman, which also starred Katie Holmes, Scott Wolf and Sarah Polley, and featured a script by first time screenwriter John August.

But the SM & P shut down in the 1930s and Polley declined until today only a bar and some homes and farms remain, while Gilman survives.

She took the role, she says, only because Polley is her friend.

Polley made her feature film directorial debut with Away from Her, for which she won a Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

A wireless remote control, the " Flashmatic ", was developed in 1955 by Eugene Polley.

Based on the Alice Munro short story " The Bear Came Over the Mountain ", the movie was the first feature film directed by Christie's sometime co-star, Canadian actress Sarah Polley.

Young star Sarah Polley, who was nine years old at the time of filming, similarly described it as a traumatic experience for her.

It was nominated in 1990 for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation ( losing to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ); actress Sarah Polley was nominated for two Young Artist Awards in the categories Best Musical or Fantasy and Best Young Actress.

Despite the praise and the participation of the Oscar-nominated Polley, a major movie star in Canada, the film was a flop at the box office, and was not released on DVD.

Polley, the youngest of five siblings, was born in Toronto, Ontario.

Polley was raised believing that her biological father was Michael Polley, a British-born actor and insurance agent ( he attended acting classes with Albert Finney in England before moving to Canada ).

Polley discovered as an adult that her biological father was Harry Gulkin, a man with whom her mother had had an affair while working on a stage play in Montreal ( as chronicled in Polley's film, Stories We Tell ).

Polley played Elise in Jaco Van Dormael's Mr. Nobody, which was released in 2010.

Kormos was a political mentor to prominent Canadian actress Sarah Polley.

The film was written and directed by Audrey Wells and stars Stephen Rea, Sarah Polley, Jean Smart, and Gina Gershon.

Her next performance was in Take This Waltz ( 2011 ), directed by Sarah Polley in Canada, that focuses on a young married couple ( Williams and Seth Rogen ) dealing with monogamy and fidelity.

The 1955 Flash-Matic remote system, invented by Eugene Polley, used a highly directional photo flash tube in the hand held unit that was aimed at sensitive photoreceivers in the four front corners of the television cabinet.

George Gibson Polley was an American pioneer of ( the then-unnamed act of ) buildering, or climbing the walls of tall buildings, earning him the nickname " the human fly ".

In 2006, the story " The Bear Came over the Mountain " was adapted into a film, Away from Her, directed by Sarah Polley and produced by Atom Egoyan.

Polley was nominated as Best European Actress by the European Film Academy for her performance in this film.

Polley takes pride in her work and enjoys both acting and directing but is not keen on combining the two.

* January 9 – Thousands of onlookers watch as " The Human Fly " George Polley climbs the New York Woolworth Building.

* November 29 – Eugene Polley, American engineer ( d. 2012 )

From around 1902 to 1905 the Stanley, Merrill and Phillips Railway ran a line up the west end of the county through Polley, Gilman, Hannibal and Jump River.

In 1905 the Wisconsin Central Railroad built its line through Clark ( now a ghost town ), Lublin, Polley, Gilman and Donald, heading for Superior.

Morningside Elementary School and Benjamin Foulois Junior High School / Elementary / Creative and Performing Arts Academy ( current ) as well as Michael J Polley Neighborhood Park are located within the town limits.

Image: Polley Bridge, Gilsum, NH. jpg | Polley Bridge in 1907

The unincorporated community of Polley is located in the town.

During the same period, the village of Polley had grown two miles to the south, also on the SM & P line.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 British adventure fantasy comedy film written and directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman and Robin Williams ( credited as Ray D. Tutto ).

The film starred John Neville as the Baron and nine-year-old Sarah Polley as Sally Salt.

The New Generation movement flowered in the 1990s and early 2000s, producing poets such as Don Paterson, Julia Copus, John Stammers, Jacob Polley, K M Warwick, David Morley and Alice Oswald.

The cast also includes Sarah Polley, Joan Orenstein, Heather Rankin and a cameo appearance by Ashley MacIsaac.

As Merle ( Sarah Polley ), Nourish's assistant, calls for security, Pikul and Allegra grab pistols hidden under the dog's false mane and shoot Nourish and Merle to death.

In 1910, George Polley started his climbing career when the owner of a clothing store promised him a suit if he would climb to the roof of the building.

* George Polley, who climbed between 1910 and 1920.