TOUCHDOWN - MIKE & SPIKE

This week's perspective from Bob Reid: I went to high school with Mike Myers.  Well, for a year or two, anyway – he forsook my alma mater, Sir John A. Macdonald C.I. for the neighbouring Stephen Leacock Collegiate midway through, because Leacock was on a semester system and Mike could graduate from there six months sooner, once he had amassed the credits necessary for his diploma.  He went from there immediately to Second City, the first stop in a career that would lead to Saturday Night Live and movie stardom.  So it’s fun to watch from afar as the success of a guy from the old neighbourhood plays out in the media – and it’s nice to see how well-managed Mike’s press seems to be.  Unlike so many other showbiz types, when his marriage broke down and a new relationship blossomed into a new union, there was precious little about it in the tabloids or, for that matter, anywhere else.  His second marriage became public through his own disclosure, well after the fact – a pattern repeated this week with news of the birth of his first child, a boy, already two weeks old now.  Classy.  Discrete.  I dare say, downright Canadian.  So for that – and for naming the boy something as cool as Spike! – a Touchdown to Mr. Myers.  Bridlewood’s still proud of ya.