Mel Watkins
Mel Watkins
Mel Watkinsis a Canadian political economist and activist. He is professor emeritus of economics and political science at the University of Toronto. He was a founder and co-leader with James Laxer of the Waffle, a left wing political formation within the New Democratic Party that advocated an "independent socialist Canada" and Canadian nationalism...
acted astounded attention basis chosen director producers though
He acted as though he didn't know where he was, and he immediately got the attention of the producers and the director of the film. He was chosen for the part on that basis -- they didn't know what to think of him. They were astounded by him.
amazingly complex people
This is an amazingly complex man. Intelligent -- and he was anything but what people take him to be.
although fighting fights-and-fighting
He wasn't defeated. Although he was bitter, he was still fighting to reconstruct that image.