Trevor Blumas is an extraordinarily talented, intelligent, and handsome young actor from Canada, who has already starred in feature film such as 'The Unsaid,' television movies such as 'Prom Queen,' television series such as 'Little Men,' and has guest-starred on television series such as 'Twice in a Lifetime.'
Trevor's role choices have been of high personal and social value presenting a positive and constructive message for both children and adults, which shows that Trevor Blumas, besides being talented, intelligent, and handsome, is a young man who also possesses a good heart, and a good conscience.
Compiled from various Internet sources:
Born: October 16, 1984
Birthplace: London, Ontario, Canada.
Height: 5'11'
Weight: 160
Hair: Brown.
Eyes: Blue.
Mother: Lynn, photographer.
Father: Art.
Sisters: Older Jaclyn and younger Alexandra.
Nickname: Big Bandit.
Trevor Blumas was born and raised in London, Ontario, Canada, and in his elementary years, Trevor attended the Lester B. Pearson School for the Arts, where he studied music, dance, drama, and art. Trevor performed in the Original Kids Theatre Company in London, Ontario, Canada, and has been in many stage productions, including, 'Annie Warbucks,' 'My Fair Lady,' 'How To Eat Like A Child' with his sister Jaclyn, and 'Casey' as Young Michael. Trevor has also studied and participated in workshops at the prestigious world-renowned Shakespearean Stratford Festival in Southern Ontario.
Trevor went on to appear as a guest star in several television series, and has starred in feature film, television movies, and television series, opposite such stars as Edward James Olmos, Harry Hamlin, Teri Hatcher, Rob Lowe, Andy Garcia, and Mercedes Reuhl. And Trevor attended Lucas High School in London, Ontario, when not on the road working at acting which he often was during his high school years.
Trevor loves acting, has once dreamed of being an astronomer, has expressed an interest in life on other worlds, and has said that his favorite movie was 'Beetlejuice,' a comedy about life after death. Besides acting, Trevor can play the violin, keyboards, and wind instruments, also plays guitar, writes music, sings, and played in a London-based band with his friends. Apart from the arts, Trevor loves football, plays golf and tennis, snowboards and surfs, and has raced 'Mackenzie Silver Level' in skiing.
Trevor was nominated for a 1999 Young Artist Award Best Performance in a TV Movie/Pilot/Mini-Series or Series - Leading Young Actor, for 'Stranger in Town.' And Trevor was nominated for a 2000 Young Artist Award Best Performance in a TV Series - Young Ensemble, for 'Little Men.' And Trevor was also nominated for a 2001 Young Artist Award Best Performance in a TV Drama Series - Guest Starring Young Actor, for 'Twice In a Lifetime.'
Mostly taken from Trevor Blumas @ IMDB with some additions from other sites.
Stage:
Annie Warbucks: CG.
My Fair Lady. Street Child.
Beetles Review: Ringo.
Bugsy Malone: Matt.
And You Thought Your Family Was Strange: Son.
Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood: Bad Wolf.
How To Eat Like A Child.
Casey.
Movies:
The Wall (1998): Ben Holt.
Stranger in Town (1998), also called 'Bad Prospect': Aaron.
Seasons of Love (1998), also called 'Love on the Land': Hocking
Linthorne.
Little Men (1998): Nathaniel (Nat) Blake.
Dinner at Fred's (1999): Young Richard.
Monet: Shadow and Light (1999): Daniel Fontaine.
Switching Goals (1999): Gregg Jeffries.
Virtual Mom (2000): Tom.
Inside the Osmonds (2001): Older Jimmy Osmond.
The Unsaid (2001): Kyle Hunter.
Jane Doe (2001): Michael Doe.
Guilt By Association (2002): Teenage Max.
Prom Queen (2004): Beau.
Ice Princess (2005): Teddy Harwood.
Series:
Earth: Final Conflict (1997), 'Float Like a Butterfly,' November
1997: Jebediah Good.
Due South (1997), 'Easy Money,' September 1998: Young Fraser.
Twice in a Lifetime (1999), 'Curveball,' September 2000: Teenage Ben
Bogart/Young Father.
Twice in a Lifetime (1999), 'The Choice,' April 2001: Teenage Ryan
Storey.
For the first time since 1997, when he was 12 years old, a new performing credit entry had not shown up for Trevor Blumas anywhere on the Internet for almost two years (since late-2001/early-2002, until September 2003), and since Trevor had not worked in acting since performing in 'Guilt By Association,' this was the longest period since 1997 that Trevor Blumas had gone without any accredited work, which raised questions among his fans as to where Trevor was and what he was doing.
In his Little Men chat (July 29, 1999), Trevor claimed that in five years, he wanted to be living an enjoyable life and doing what he loved: acting. Trevor also claimed that he had plans to go to college, and that if he did, he wanted to go to learn film production and related subjects.
Since Trevor had not acted in close to two years, since many child actors have had problems making the transition from child actors to adult actors, and since the awkward (role-wise) later teen years are sometimes very difficult for young actors, it was only logical for some of Trevor's fans to wonder if this highly-principled young man with strong artistic sensibilities was experiencing some of the myriad problems that many former child actors have experienced.
The difficult late-teen years are a time when many young actors have personal matters that they need to sort out in their lives, or with their acting, that sometimes require a little voluntary or involuntary time off from performing. And many highly-principled child actors with strong artistic sensibilities who previously have carefully chosen to perform in pieces of high personal and social moral value, will often discover that there are no appropriate roles for them during their late-teen years, or very few roles at all, if any, or only different types of distasteful roles which compromise their previously high-held beliefs, and many child actors are very put off and upset by this development.
So perhaps over the past few years Trevor was experiencing the
normal trials and tribulations that many child actors experience when
they become former child actors, and perhaps one or both of the
following articles better helps explain some of the details of what
Trevor has really been experiencing the past few years:
Where Have You Gone, Paul Petersen?
So then, what happened to Trevor Blumas and what had he been doing from late-2001/early-2002 until September 2003, professionally and publicly? Rules of decency and privacy did not allow us to go any further than public information that can be found on the Internet and through other public sources, which often has recent information about such people as Trevor, but even those sources had previously had no further information on Trevor since he performed in 'Guilt By Association.'
In his Little Men chat, Trevor also claimed that one of his favorite places was the West Coast of America (which he visited for a Young Actors Award event in the past). Well, previously, a snoopy fan named Tam at a Trevor Blumas forum at Filmbug.com posted that Trevor had moved to Los Angeles, and on September 30, 2003, the following entry was added to the page:
'What Trevor is doing now (Tue Sep 30, 2003 8:17pm ET)
by D.M.
Hey, I am a serious Trevor Blumas fan. I have wondered like
alot of people have where Trevor has gone. Well, word is that he took
a year off to finish high school and he now currently lives in
California and is majoring in Film at Santa Monica College. For the
month of October, he will be back in Toronto to film the
controversial film, Prom Queen. No idea yet when this film will be
released. Just wanted to fill everyone in on the scoop.'
And the above report has been substantiated by the previous listing of Trevor as a member of a London-based band with a nickname of 'Big Bandit,' and a previous report about 'Big Bandit' being back from California for October 2003 on the band's web site.
So after finishing 'Guilt By Association,' Trevor completed his high school years without taking another acting role (for reasons which are subsequently explained), and began attending Santa Monica College, and Trevor was majoring in film at that liberal arts community college located in Santa Monica, California. And since Trevor also appeared in the controversial film 'Prom Queen' (the Marc Hall story, filmed in Toronto in October 2003), it is clear that this determined young man is fulfilling all the plans he made for himself years ago, and is truly living an enjoyable life and learning and working at what he loves: acting.
And regardless of the reasons offered, it is still surprising that the most talented, versatile, and handsome young actor of his generation did not find any work at all the past two years in the field that he excels at and loves, especially considering that less talented and less handsome young (Canadian) actors of the same age such as Corey Sevier and Kevin Zegers have worked steadily during the same time period.
And so, the first role that Trevor chose after an almost two year hiatus, was a role in a made-for-TV film produced by Tapestry Pictures of Toronto, Canada for CTV (Canadian Television) entitled 'Prom Queen,' and which is about the plight of 17 year old gay Ontario high school student Marc Hall who wanted to bring his boyfriend to his Catholic High School prom and ended up suing his school, and won the right to do so in a controversial court case. And the script for this production was apparently written by gay Canadian playwright Michael Lewis MacLennan, who is also known for his work as producer and writer for 'Queer as Folk,' and for his work on other gay-related theme pieces.
The lead role of Marc Hall in 'Prom Queen' was played by an Aaron Ashmore, and the role played by Trevor was a fictionalized friend of Marc Hall named 'Beau.' And the film premiered at the Regent Theater in Toronto on May 5, 2004, and originally aired on CTV (Canadian Television) on June 1, 2004 at 9 PM.
We will see what the future brings, but Trevor Blumas has shown that he is a young man and performing artist who deserves the respect and admiration of all people in the world today.
So then, in October 2003, Trevor was in Toronto filming 'Prom Queen,' he spent the weekend of October 11-13 celebrating the Canadian Thanksgiving Day Holiday, celebrated his 19th birthday on October 16, appeared as a special guest with his band in London on October 17, and after completing the filming of 'Prom Queen,' it might have been expected that Trevor would return to California to continue his education and pursue his film career.
Unfortunately, events over the last several months of 2003, both in California and back home, complicated Trevor's life, and instead of returning to California after filming 'Prom Queen,' Trevor remained at home living in London, Ontario, riding out the storm of the 'Star Wars'/'Shattered Glass' publicity furor, and then after having performed in his role in 'Prom Queen,' Trevor went another five months before obtaining his next role.
Trevor @ 'Prom Queen' Premier!
However, the next role that Trevor obtained was a role that at first seemed certain to make Trevor The Next BIG Star, and that role is in the Disney film 'Ice Princess,' filmed in Toronto between April and July 2004, and released on March 18, 2005 after previously having been announced to be released on Christmas Day 2004:
Trevor Blumas Stars in 'Ice Princess'
But even though he obtained such a choice role in Disney's production of 'Ice Princess,' Trevor was plagued with a continued run of bad luck, having in late May 2004 been asked to leave the band he formed in his first year of high school for some things he did to his fellow band members, and after completing his performance in 'Ice Princess,' Trevor was asked to move out and leave his home in London, Ontario, for some other things he said and did regarding his family and his personal life. So for a while after completing the filming of 'Ice Princess,' Trevor was again back living in California, again looking for the next big thing to happen to him in his life, and looking for his run of bad luck to change.
But Trevor's luck did not change, and after going several more months without obtaining another role after completing the filming of 'Ice Princess,' Trevor had to resort to returning back home to Canada again, and instead of being offered another bigger role, he was forced to turn to a project based on a script he purchased a couple of years ago from his agent's son, tentatively entitled 'Fury,' and work on that new project was scheduled to begin in April 2005 in Toronto, Canada.
And because of the complications that have clouded Trevor's life for the past few years, it is no longer sure now that this young man will obtain the stardom that he really and truly deserves. But still, there can be no young man in the world today who more richly deserves that stardom more than that fine young man named Trevor Blumas.
Near the beginning of the film 'The Unsaid,' during the suicide scene, there are flashbacks of a baby, a toddler, and a child, and there is also in 'The Unsaid' a shot of a young boy in a photograph.
Trevor Blumas' mom Lynn is a photographer, and it is obvious that she has been photographing and video-taping Trevor ever since he was a baby, and this is obviously part of the reason why Trevor looks so comfortable and natural in front of a camera.
Between the ages of 9-12, Trevor attended the Lester B. Pearson School for the Arts, where he studied music, dance, drama, and art, and at the same time performed in the Original Kids Theatre Company in London, Ontario, Canada.
For his role in 'Little Men,' Trevor learned to play the violin. Trevor also plays the guitar, can play keyboards and wind instruments, and plays in a band with his friends. He also writes music and lyrics, and has sung in at least one of his roles and also sings with his band.
So Trevor Blumas has studied art, can dance, sings, plays violin and guitar and keyboards and wind instruments, writes music and lyrics, and is an actor of extraordinary talent, as all of you must know.
In his 'Little Men' chat, Trevor says his favorite sport was football. I have also found on the Internet the scores for a ski meet where Trevor scored extremely high, and has achieved what is called 'Mackenzie Silver Level' in skiing. Trevor also snowboards and surfs, and has played golf and tennis.
So, aside from having studied art, being able to dance, sing, play violin and guitar and keyboards and wind instruments, write music and lyrics, and being the best young actor of his generation who also happens to have performed in the most conscientious pieces, Trevor loves football, skis at a high competitive level, plays tennis and golf, and snowboards and surfs.
In his 'Little Men' chat, Trevor also says 'I was always fascinated in the universe and wondering that life-long question, Is there life on other planets? If I was an astronomer, I would like to discover something new.' Trevor was a little over 14 1/2 when he did this chat. And in the same chat, Trevor states that his favorite movie was 'Beetlejuice,' a comedy about life after death that used to be my own favorite movie, even though I knew it was fantasy and fiction and had no basis in reality.
In his song 'Stereo,' Trevor writes the lyrics 'Temporarily can serve on your deathbed reflection, On the proper situations and feelings that you're gettin''. These two lyrics show his knowledge of the condition of death and life after death, further shown in his performance in two 'near-death' related pieces in the series 'Twice in a Lifetime,' twice, and in his claim that a favorite movie of his was 'Beetlejuice,' which again show his concern and his understanding about the 'near-death' experience and the process of death.
And another lyric in Trevor's song 'Stereo' is 'A night in hell (and I can tell)'. This lyric shows that Trevor understands that the world in which we live today is a veritable world of hell, and which Trevor has discerned at an age much earlier than any age to which so many other people come to such a conclusion.
So, aside from having studied art, being able to dance, sing, play violin and guitar and keyboards and wind instruments, write music and lyrics, and being the best young actor of his generation who also happens to have performed in the most conscientious pieces, Trevor loves football, skis at a high competitive level, plays tennis and golf, and snowboards and surfs, and Trevor has also expressed an interest in life on other worlds, his favorite movie was once a comedy about life after death and he has an interest and an understanding in the matters of death and life after death, and he understands the true nature of the world in which he lives today.
And there is more, so much more about him, to respect, admire, and love.
In light of all of the above, look at the publicity photograph of Trevor labeled 'confidence, tranquility, and intelligence' and see if you do not agree with that assessment.
It would be one thing if he were simply so talented only within the arts, or instead only within sports, or instead only within Universal constructs, or instead only within constructs relating to sexuality, but this kid Trevor Blumas is quite literally, a master of all things.
He is the most well-rounded, balanced, multi-talented, fiercely intelligent, young man in the world, and there is just nobody just like him in the world today. And my respect and admiration for this young man's talent and intelligence is just way over the top.
This is a scene right near the end of a
'Little Men' episode in the first season
where Nat and Nan try to put Dan and Bess together romantically, and
in the end, end up experimenting themselves (Episode 9, 'Coming
Attractions'):
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-2125/epid-91662/
This is the scene about which, when asked about it in his 'Little Men' chat Trevor said 'Considering it was my first time, I was pretty nervous, but on the later takes, I was confident.'
The scene begins with the camera low and Trevor (Nat) and Brittney Irvin (Nan) sitting in the hay loft of the barn with their legs overhanging the edge and both of them swinging their legs, and with both of them with their hands folded in between their legs. The camera rises up and the two are discussing how their attempt to put Dan and Bess together didn't work.
Trevor says 'I mean even if Dan and Bess did kiss, they'd probably go back to fighting again' with emphasis on the word 'did.' Nan responds 'The theory is if two people kiss they're gonna fall in love, right?' All along, Nan has been looking straight ahead, and Trevor has been turning his head towards Nan, and in that green wool sweater that he wore so often in the series, he looks, like he always did in that sweater, luxurious.
Trevor turns his head in an angled manner towards his shoulder and responds 'Yeah, that's what they say.' Then Nan says 'That's just stupid, it's not like the kiss is magic or anything.' Then Trevor says 'I know, you're just squishing you lips together. What's so magic about that?' where his pronunciation of 'about' is the typical charming Canadian 'a boot' and where his emphasis in the first sentence is on the word 'together,' instead of on the word 'lips,' which is unusual but appealing. And as he says this line, he lifts his two hands up in the air in front of him, and shows his long, elegant, effeminate fingers. And Nan responds to Trevor's question 'Nothing.'
While the camera has been rising up and is now just about at their same level right in front of them, before the next line, the camera perspective shifts to a side view of Trevor closest to the camera in hard profile, and then Nan. Nan turns to the camera and asks 'Have you ever kissed anyone before?' At this point, the profile shot of Trevor gives a perfect view of his nose, which exhibits more character about a person and possesses more interesting characteristics than any other nose I have ever seen.
Trevor says 'Nope,' then turns his head away from the camera and towards Nan and asks 'Have you?' In this shot, before he turns his head, his facial characteristics are stunning, and at this age, his chin and jawbone have just started jutting out and exhibiting even more character than before, and Trevor's serious expression is perfect. I also got a sense that through all the acting, Trevor looked like he was lying just a little bit, even though acting is basically about good lying. And there has only been one other time I remember (so far, besides his entire performance in 'Switching Goals'), that through the acting, I thought Trevor was uncomfortable about a line and his face expressed something that I had not seen before, apparently about a lie being expressed even through acting about something important to him, which really, is just an ultimate compliment about the conscience of this young man.
The camera now shifts across to Nan's side, with Nan closest to the camera and Trevor distant. Nan asks 'Maybe we should try it.' Trevor scrunches his brow a little and turns his head towards the camera with an expression for the ages and asks 'What?' Camera perspective shifts back to Trevor's side as Nan says 'You know, like test the theory? Like an experiment?' Camera shifts back to Nan's side as Trevor contemplates beautifully, and then blurts out 'All right' as he looks right at the camera.
At this point, something strange occurs that can be discerned in the scene. Right after Trevor completes his line 'All right,' he turns towards Brittney and sits up and the camera hones in on his face, and as he is about to kiss Brittney Irvin, for a split second before a cut in the scene, best seen in slow motion, a look of absolute horror and terror comes across Trevor's eyes and face, and then, cut. Like the editor cut it at just the point where the terror and horror showed up on Trevor's face. As mentioned above, in his 'Little Men' chat, Trevor says he was nervous at first about kissing Brittney, but if you saw the look in his eyes for that split second, you would realize that he was not nervous, he was absolutely terrified!
Now, here's the most beautiful and talented young boy in the world, who must know at least a little about his total and complete beauty and talent at this age, having heard himself called such by other people all his life, and he is absolutely terrified about kissing a girl in this scene! Absolutely incomprehensible. What this says about Trevor's heart at that age, simply just can not be explained. The most beautiful boy in the world, and HE'S nervous about kissing a girl for the first time? Ridiculous.
And perhaps this was the reason why the scene included what happens next: the children closing their eyes before they actually kissed, because Trevor's eyes continually showed terror before each previous kiss attempt?
Back to the scene. Camera shifts back to Trevor's side and Nan says 'I think we're supposed to close our eyes first.' Camera shifts back to Nan's side with Trevor looking right at the camera and saying 'Okay' and closes his eyes: for a split second the shot is of the face of beauty and character personified.
Camera back to Trevor's side hard on Nan as she also closes her eyes. Then, camera back to right in front of them as it is Nan who leans closer to Trevor, closer, closer, then SMACK! And you heard the smack! And what a smack it was! And what a beautiful kiss!
A beautifully innocent, sweet, charming, wonderful, kiss, and then they both back away from each other and put their hands back between their legs and look away from each other.
So, after they kiss, Nan says to Trevor 'Well?' Camera back to Nan's side with Trevor in the distance as he shakes his head and says in the most believable line of the entire scene 'Nothing' and then asks 'You?' as he turns towards the camera. Camera back to Trevor's side hard on Nan 'Nope.'
Camera back right in front of them as Nan says 'There goes another theory.' Trevor looking down shakes his head in agreement, the camera begins to back away and down while Nan looks away and then over at Trevor, and then away again. The children begin swinging their legs over the edge in what must be described as a nervous manner, Trevor looks quickly over to Nan, then Nan looks quickly over to Trevor and they meet eyes, then they hurriedly break eye contact and look apart while continuing to swing their legs and act nervously, then the camera backs down the same way it rose up at the beginning of the scene, and then the scene ends.
This scene is the sweetest, most charming, most wonderful, most harmless, most beautiful, most perfect scene of this sort I have ever seen. It is absolutely wonderful, perfectly acted by both, and delightful to watch.
Magnificent!
Oh, and one last word: as you watch the scene, in your mind (or if you have computer-capability), remove Brittney's hair, and remove Trevor's hair, and decide. Brittney's a lovely little girl, but . . .
Besides everything else, besides being an utter genius and ultra-talented and utterly gorgeous, Trevor Blumas has the biggest and most beautiful heart I have ever seen in anybody I ever come to know in this life, and he brings that big and beautiful heart with him from his childhood, and even further, from his past life.
In the last episode of the second season of the 'Little Men' series, there was a celebration scene right at the end of that episode, belatedly celebrating Christmas for Nick, who had just returned to Plumfield after having spent some time in jail. Now, I am convinced that the celebration scene in that episode doubled as a farewell party for the cast members, since the series was not picked up for another year after the second season, and the cast and crew apparently knew about that decision before the episode was filmed. Or at the very least, instead, it was a celebration party for the end of the second season, and a farewell party until they met again to film the next season of the series, if there was to be another season.
Now, in that scene, we see many of the Plumfield family embracing and otherwise expressing their love for each other. Among the loving expressions, Trevor hugs Spencer Rochefort and puts his head on Spencer's shoulder in an utterly beautiful expression of affection and respect, and subsequently, Trevor's 'great fun friend' Corey (as he described him in his 'Little Men' chat) approaches Trevor, and Trevor puts one of his hands on Corey's shoulders just like he did with Spencer, and begins to hug Corey and put his head on Corey's shoulder also, however, Corey's body language is standoffish and shows clearly that he does not want Trevor to hug him nor does he want to hug Trevor himself. You should have seen Trevor as he was about to hug Corey, and then you should have seen Trevor as he embarrassingly stopped himself from hugging Corey when he realized Corey just did not want to be hugged by him. And subsequently, Corey hugged Michelle Lee Thomas in a very affectionate manner, and seemed like he wanted to kiss her and never let her go.
You have to see this scene in order to understand what this says about Trevor's heart (and also about Corey Sevier, the bum), suffice to say the boy (Trevor) is a lover, a lover of people, and a lover of his friends, so much that he wanted to express his love for his 'great fun friend' in a manner that he felt was appropriate, only to be put off by Corey's body language, and then, understood what Corey was doing and reacted appropriately also. But at the same time, in later shots in that scene, which seemed to be filmed in chronological order (which is always a good thing to do, for both continuity and otherwise), Trevor seems to have shrugged off the embarrassment and disappointment of what Corey did, and is his old happy and gleeful self in the rest of the scene, anyway.
Furthermore, when asked in his 'Little Men' chat about his kissing scene in the ninth episode of the series with Brittney Irvin, Trevor answers 'Considering it was my first time, I was pretty nervous, but on the later takes, I was confident.'
Trevor's Kissing Scene in 'Little Men'
Now, in the kissing scene itself, the children are talking about how they tried to get Dan and Bess together as a couple, and even, trick them into kissing, and then they talk about the nature of a kiss itself, and Nan (Brittney Irvin) says to Trevor: 'That's just stupid, it's not like the kiss is magic or anything.' Then Trevor says 'I know, you're just squishing you lips together. What's so magic about that?' Subsequently, Nan asks Trevor 'Maybe we should try it.' Trevor scrunches his brow a little and turns his head towards the camera and asks 'What?' Nan says 'You know, like test the theory? Like an experiment?' Trevor contemplates this beautifully, and then blurts out 'All right' as he looks right at the camera.
At this point, something strange occurs that can be discerned in the scene. Right after Trevor completes his line 'All right,' he turns towards Brittney and sits up and the camera hones in on his face, and as he is about to kiss Brittney Irvin, for a split second before a cut in the scene, best seen in slow motion, a look of absolute horror and terror comes across Trevor's eyes and face, and then, cut. Like the editor cut it at just the point where the terror and horror showed up even more on Trevor's face. As mentioned above, in his 'Little Men' chat, Trevor says he was nervous at first about kissing Brittney, but if you saw the look in his eyes for that split second, you would realize that he was not nervous, he was absolutely terrified! And his eyes seemed like they were glassy too, like he simply wanted to cry, he so much didn't want to kiss a girl!
And perhaps this was the reason why the scene included what happens next: the children closing their eyes before they actually kissed: because Trevor's eyes continually showed terror before each previous kiss attempt? Back to the scene, the camera shifts back to Trevor's side and Nan says 'I think we're supposed to close our eyes first' (of course they are not!). Camera shifts back to Nan's side with Trevor looking right at the camera and saying 'Okay' and closes his eyes: for a split second the shot is of the face of beauty and character personified. And then they kiss, with their eyes closed, and with Brittney being the one who mostly moves her body over towards Trevor to meet their lips.
Now the point is, here is the most beautiful and talented young boy in the world, who must know at least a little about his total and complete beauty and talent at this age, having heard himself described as such by other people all his life, and he is absolutely terrified about kissing a girl in this scene! Absolutely incomprehensible. What this says about Trevor's heart at that age, simply just can not be explained. The most beautiful and talented boy in the world, and HE'S nervous about kissing a girl for the first time? Ridiculous. Every girl in the world should be nervous to kiss HIM, the most beautiful and talented boy in the world, but instead, HE is the one nervous out of his mind. Only a boy with a big and beautiful heart would react in such a manner to such an event, and again, what it says about that big and beautiful heart simply can not be expressed in words.
You can also see that big and beautiful heart in the role choices Trevor has made throughout his acting career, and it can be no coincidence and not simply accepting any work that came his way, that explains those role choices. In just about every piece in which Trevor has performed (if not all of them), the issues dealt with in those pieces are of the highest personal and social moral character, pieces that deal with strong father-son relationships, strong family relationships, and important gay issues (along with a couple of roles pertaining to life after death and death itself). This is no coincidence, and this is not a matter of just accepting work: it is another exemplification of the big and beautiful heart of Trevor Blumas.
And you can see that big and beautiful heart exemplified way back as a child, in the simplest and most innocent of expressions. In that I mean in a flashback scene in 'The Unsaid,' where Andy Garcia is flashing-back to memories of his gay son who committed suicide, and we see a baby in front of a birthday cake, a toddler walking towards the camera with some sort of headphones on, a little boy on a tricycle turning towards the camera, a little boy sitting in a chair and getting a haircut, and then, a shot of Trevor that I call the 'essential Trevor Blumas' when he is the age he was when he made the movie and wearing a cap and turning towards the camera and smiling a smile that just lights up the world and is one of the most utterly gorgeous smiles I have ever seen. But my point here is about the little boy in the chair getting the haircut.
It is obvious that Trevor's mom provided private video-tape footage of Trevor to the film-makers to be used in 'The Unsaid' in this flashback scene, and this is often done in the film-making industry, and if you saw the transition between the boy getting the haircut (and on the tricycle and wearing the headphones) and the 'essential Trevor,' you would note the incredible similarity in facial features and know they were all Trevor at different ages. But the child sitting in the chair is special, and very noteworthy. In the few seconds you see the little boy sitting in the chair and getting the haircut, first of all, you notice that the child is utterly beautiful beyond description (the most beautiful child I have ever seen, of course), but what is even more noteworthy and so special, is the subtle way the little boy moves his lips as he sits in that chair and his mother (?) cuts his bangs. The way he subtly moves his lips can not be described in words, because it is so subtly utterly charming and adorable, that it makes your heart skip a beat before your heart wants to explode in joy and wonder at the absolute utter gorgeousness of the countenance and bearing of this little boy (and jump into the screen and absolutely hug him to death), and you really have to see this scene and play it back many times, and also, have a special affection for children, before you can possibly understand what this says about the big and beautiful heart of Trevor Blumas, and how he has possessed that heart from childhood, and even, of course, from before.
Really, just look at the photographs of Trevor on my Trevor photos page and look at the incredibly beautiful smiles Trevor exhibits in so many of the photographs, particularly one from 'Little Men' with a Christmas bulb in the lower right hand corner with the letters 'PAX' (the PAX network) across the bulb, also the first photograph up top of the boy in the photograph on a book stand, also the photograph I call the 'essential Trevor Blumas,' and also the photograph of Trevor with spiked hair and a necklace, and you just begin to understand that, besides everything else, Trevor Blumas has the biggest and most beautiful heart imaginable, and the biggest and most beautiful heart in any child I have ever seen in my entire life, a big and beautiful heart that I know he retains to this very day.
Like: how can such a sublime creature as this exist? He is simply the best there is of everything that makes the human form what it is, and there exist not enough and not descriptive enough words in the language to describe his absolutely utter perfection in human form, in all ways.
The following are the lyrics to a song known for sure to have be written by an artistic genius named Trevor Blumas:
'Stereo'
Well it's about that time tonight . . . (?),
I put my headphones on, I press play,
The singing drowns out reality,
I hear some other voice,
standing on the side of me.
You're telling me about love and growing up,
And the problems with society,
My natural contortion is a wise respect,
Our music pulls the weights like a needle inject,
Temporarily can serve on your deathbed reflect,
On the current situations and the feelings that you get.
When I'm all alone I have my friend stereo,
(a whatcha a whatcha a whatcha want, a whatcha a whatcha a whatcha
want),
I turn to it for wisdom,
A night in hell,
(a whatcha a whatcha a whatcha need, a whatcha a whatcha a whatcha
need),
It says one thing I know,
Is that we're not alone,
There are others who are just like me,
Think the same things I do,
Feel it just as well,
We are not who I won't know (?),
Oh, don't you want to feel?,
We'll be praying for you,
You make it sound so real.
So nod your heads and groove,
Staylefish can hear you,
And we need you too,
When you just can't deal,
We'll be there for you.
When I'm all alone I have my friend stereo,
(a whatcha a whatcha a whatcha want, a whatcha a whatcha a whatcha
want),
I turn to it for wisdom,
A night in hell,
(a whatcha a whatcha a whatcha need, a whatcha a whatcha a whatcha
need),
It says one thing I know,
Is that we're not alone,
There are others who are just like me,
Think the same things I do,
Feel it just as well,
We are not who I won't know (?),
Oh, don't you want to feel?,
We'll be praying for you,
You make it sound so real.
So nod your heads and groove,
Staylefish can hear you,
And we need you too,
When you just can't deal,
We'll be there for you.
So now, I analyze the song 'Stereo,' known and admitted to have been authored by an artistic genius named Trevor Blumas:
The first pertinent lyrics in the song that indicate Trevor's artistic genius, are 'Temporarily can serve on your deathbed reflect, On the current situations and the feelings that you get.'
Now, these two lyrics exhibit Trevor's understanding of death and the death experience, which again, exhibits his extensive knowledge of subjects so pertinent to the human species and all species, and exhibits his knowledge of the condition of life after death, further exhibited in his performance in two 'near-death' related pieces, in the series 'Twice in a Lifetime,' twice, and in his claim that a favorite movie of his was 'Beetlejuice,' which is a farce about life after death and which again exemplifies his concern and his understanding about the 'near-death' experience and the process of death. And so, besides everything else, Trevor understands totally and completely about death and life after death, and obviously more than the huge majority of people in the world today.
And the next lyric which indicates the artistic genius of Trevor Blumas is the following 'A night in hell.' This lyric indicates that Trevor understands that the world in which we live today is a veritable world of hell, which I myself have understood for decades now, and which Trevor has discerned at an age much earlier than any age to which I came to such conclusion myself, which again, exhibits his absolute and total genius in this life. And in that, perhaps Trevor should question how in the world he ended up in such a world of hell, how such an utter beauty and genius as him would ever find himself in such a world that he understands is such a veritable hell, and the answer to that question that Trevor should ask, turns out to be that it is my fault, from the beginning, and all along.
And in this song, which is obviously a love song to his stereo and a song about the influence of music on people and society, Trevor tells us that in his free time, when he is not spending time with his homosexual lovers, who are plentiful beyond comprehension because he is totally and completely obsessed with the beauty of the male body, Trevor spends his time at home listening to music, and explains the impact that music has on him and his life, and the impact he knows that music has on the lives of so many people in the world today.
The rest of the song, in only slightly lesser exemplification, also shows us the artistic genius of Trevor Blumas, and all together, produces a work of beauty and intelligence that is well beyond the efforts of so many other alleged artists who have created such songs in the past, none of which come anywhere near the artistic genius which this one song, 'Stereo,' exhibits about our little boy, Trevor.
Trevor Blumas IS, and always has been, an artistic creative genius, and in this article I have only exemplified one small example of that genius. He is utterly and perfectly gorgeous, he is utterly and incomprehensibly talented, and he is utterly and incredibly intelligent, and he is unquestionably the most incredible and special human being in the world today, and in the history of the world.
That's all he is. And be a little quiet about it, because we want to keep him all to ourselves, although we also want as many people as possible in the world to love him dearly, but we don't need the entire world to know that he is utterly and incomprehensibly the most all-around incredible human being in the world today, and in the history of the world.
The Big Beautiful Heart of Trevor Blumas
Trevor's film 'Ice Princess' was released on March 18, 2005 to 2,501 theaters in the United States:
These are the box office results for 'Ice Princess' from Box Office Mojo.
From April to July 2004, Trevor Blumas performed in the new
Walt Disney production entitled 'Ice Princess,' with his co-star
Michelle Trachtenberg, the film now scheduled to be released March
18, 2005, after long having been announced to be released on
Christmas Day 2004:
http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/tickermaster/listing.cfm?TMID=1159
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2005/ICEPR.php
Trevor plays the role of the 'Teddy Harwood,' the Zamboni driver who helps the 'Ice Princess' (Michelle Trachtenberg) overcome adversity and discover her true talents.
This is the IMDB link for
'Ice Princess.'
This is Trevor's link @
IMDB.
Check out the new 'Ice Princess' trailer at:
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/aol/us/moviefone/movies/2004/iceprincess_018890/iceprincess_trlr_01_dl.mov
This pdf file, canadianfilms.pdf, has said in the past that filming for 'Ice Princess' was scheduled from April 26 to July 5, 2004, in Toronto.
Below find reports that assert that filming continued well into July, however, some recent reports allegedly from the 'Ice Princess' set suggest both the filming and the news blackout has ended, claiming that filming continued in the outskirts of Toronto, and then ended on July 23:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0396652/board/nest/10107985
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7/20: 'Shooting in Mineola East tomorrow and Thurs, IIRC. Mapleview
is the street name.'
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0396652/board/nest/9341710
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7/20: 'They're shooting in Mississauga on Mapleview tomorrow and
Thurs.'
7/24: 'The filming ended last night in mississauga...they were doing
'the party scene' for the past three days'
And here's an interview I found with Kim Cattrall of 'Ice Princess' from July 22 in which she says she is spending her summer inside in an ice rink, and which also suggests filming continued well into July:
>>>>
Cattrall
trades 'City' for a rink
'I'm spending the summer inside a skating rink, all bundled up from neck to toes,' says Kim Cattrall, speaking from the Toronto film set of Ice Princess, her first acting assignment since HBO's Sex and the City ended after six seasons. (Related story: About that movie script, and all that money talk)
Even more shocking: 'No man in sight.'
>>>>
Hey honey: your co-star is only the most absolutely gorgeous and talented and intelligent young man in the world, Trevor Blumas. Like, he's not a 'man'? He's only the most incredible and beautiful human being in the world right now, he's legal age (almost 20 now), and if you don't want him in your bed, what does that say about you, and Trevor?
And another previous report at the 'Ice Princess' IMDB message board said that work on the filming continued after the expected ending date, although the report also claimed the work was being done on off-hours at night, beginning at 8 PM and continuing to 4-5 AM n the morning, although this report has not been confirmed.
A previous report from a questionable extra from the set, reported on July 3, had Trevor doing a kissing scene with Michelle Trachtenberg!! Wow, I just can't wait to see that one, but the extra recently claimed that Michelle's kept calling her boyfriend (Shawn Ashmore) after every cut, and also suggested that Michelle and Trevor were flirting as they did the take about 15 times! Wow, Trevor flirting with Michelle, and Michelle calling her boyfriend after every cut? But nobody can resist Trevor, not even if they have a boyfriend!
And another previous report on the filming was that there was a tight leash on news allowed to the public about the production, since the web site of the production company of 'Ice Princess,' Skate Away Productions, has recently been shut down, private e-mails to extras who were reported as having been on the set have not been answered, and a previous alleged (but dubious) source of information from the set has stopped sharing information since June 26, while on July 2, Rita Zekas of The Toronto Star published an article in that newspaper that was designed to positively promote the crew that is working on the film.
An earlier report on the filming was from the now defunct web site of the production company of 'Ice Princess,' Skate Away Productions, and at their web site, the following was previously found:
'The producers of 'ICE PRINCESS' are inviting 5,000 enthusiastic figure skating fans to volunteer as crowd participants for three days on June 21, 22 and 23 at the Ricoh Coliseum, Exhibition Place where the production is filming competitive figure skating scenes.'
The Ricoh Coliseum, Exhibition Place, is in Toronto, and the web site also announced that 'Skating luminaries including four-time World Champion Michelle Kwan and Olympic Gold Medalist and six-time World Professional Champion Brian Boitano have been cast as live commentators. Six-time Canadian champion Jennifer Robinson and Canadian Junior Figure Skating champion Lauren Wilson are MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG's skating doubles. Canadian Olympic Silver Medalist Debbi Wilkes plays a coach. Other sizzling world-class skaters making their film debut include Julianna Cannarozzo, Kirsten Olson, Jocelyn Lai and Danielle Kahle.'
And while one might have expected that the Zamboni driver who 'helps the 'Ice Princess' (Michelle Trachtenberg) overcome adversity and discover her true talents' would have been needed for some of the scenes shot at that location, it has been learned that Trevor Blumas was not present for the shoot, having been sent back home to London for the week, apparently to work out some complications in Trevor's life that have disrupted his performance and complicated the production of the film itself.
Also, an earlier report by someone who allegedly attends that
school, said that filming would begin at De La Salle College
in Toronto on June 5:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0396652/board/nest/8006142
'De La Salle College. No idea how long they'll be there. Although it turns out that they're just building the set now...and filming will begin on June 5th. Yup :)'
After the shoot at the Ricoh Coliseum, filming was expected to continue back at De La Salle College, where production of the film previously took place.
And an even earlier report on the Internet had part of the film being shot in an Ontario town about an hour east of Toronto. The town is called Millbrook, and it is apparently a small, historical town, and they were apparently using it for the quaint buildings.
In Millbrook, the report was that the production crew changed a few of the store fronts to some things like a soda shop, barber, the arena. etc., they put a statue of George Washington on the sidewalk, and Canadian flags were replaced with U.S flags, and the same with the mailboxes. Some co-workers have spotted Michelle Trachtenberg and Kim Cattrall, but no reports about Trevor being spotted anywhere yet. Filming in this town is now reported as having ended, or will be ending soon.
And Michelle Trachtenberg and Aaron Ashmore were recently spotted at a restaurant in Toronto called 'The Drake,' with other 'young hot stuff.' Must have been the night they attended the 'Prom Queen' premier together (May 5th), or perhaps right around then. And they were also spotted together at the recent MTV Movie Awards held on June 12, 2004. Or was that Aaron's twin brother Shawn instead? Boy, twins just love playing 'switching' games, don't they?
Here's an article from June 21 in The Toronto Star (by Rita Zekas) with a snippet from Trevor from the MuchMusic Video Awards celebrity party on June 20, 2004 (Hilary Duff was there also!), and it looks like the Hollywood publicity spin on 'Ice Princess' revolves around Cattrall lately:
>>>>
It's kiss-kiss and make up on the Red Carpet
Trevor Blumas, whose face has launched 1,000 fan sites, is
Trachtenberg's co-star in Ice Princess, currently shooting here.
Blumas admitted it was 'weird' at first having Sex And The
City's Kim Cattrall playing his mom. 'She's down to earth and made
a real effort to create the relationship.'
>>>>
If I remember my classics correctly (and Trevor would know this better than I), Rita was attempting to compare Trevor to Helen of Troy, who it was claimed possessed a face that launched a thousand ships.
I also found this article about 'Ice Princess,' also by that same Rita Zekas of The Toronto Star:
>>>>
Ice conditions
Kim Cattrall has been added to the cast of Ice Princess as a disgraced skating coach.
'Having the coach mentor betray the protagonist and then redeem herself is an unusual role for her,' says the film's producer Bridget Johnson.
The cast includes Buffy's Michelle Trachtenberg, Hayden Panetierre
(Ally McBeal), Joan Cusack and Trevor Blumas, who has a dream
role: 'Every Canadian guy's dream is to drive a Zamboni,' he
avows.
>>>>
Sounds like another sarcastic joking comment by Trevor, and another exhibition of his sense of humor, which I more and more find to be quite brilliant, and of course, much much like my own sense of humor.
And so, finally, Trevor Blumas speaks publicly! More coming I hope (see above).
And another article by the same Rita Zekas has Trevor out and around town with Hilary Duff, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Vanessa Lengies:
>>>>
When Tarantino met Glasshopper
May 23, 2004
'Hilary Duff got pampered at AxiSpa on Cumberland recently and Mark Consuelos dropped by Vika Spa on Friday.
Colm Feore did lunch at Bistro 990 on Monday and Hilary Duff, Michelle Trachtenberg, Vanessa Lengies (American Dreams) and cutie Trevor Blumas Bistro'd Monday night. Elizabeth Pena dined on the patio Monday, as did a crew from Crimes Of Fashion. Joely Fisher (Wildcard) and Luke Goss (The Man) did Bistro on Wednesday.
Duff and Trachtenberg dined at Spuntini next night, ditto Ethan Hawke. Kim Cattrall Spuntini'd on Wednesday and Michael Ovitz on Thursday.
Renée Zellweger sushi'd at Nami Tuesday. Hilary Duff and
gals patio'd at Flo's Diner Thursday.'
>>>>
And no, Trevor is not dating Hilary Duff, boyz and girlz (he allegedly denied it himself on the set), nor any of the other girls he was out with that one night.
The original press release from the 'Hollywood Reporter,' dated April 2, 2004:
'Blumas on 'Ice' for helmer Fywell
Newcomer Trevor Blumas is lacing up his ice skates to star opposite Michelle Trachtenberg in 'Ice Princess' for the Walt Disney Co. Shooting is scheduled to begin next week with Tim Fywell at the helm. 'Ice Princess,' described as 'Flashdance' meets 'Bring It On,' follows a brainy ugly duckling (Trachtenberg) who realizes her dream of becoming a champion figure skater with the help of a disgraced coach and the boy (Blumas) who drives the Zamboni ice resurfacing machine. Bridget Johnson is producing the project. Hadley Davis penned the most recent draft of the screenplay. At the studio, the project is being overseen by Karen Glass and Kristin Burr. Blumas appeared on the TV series 'Due South' and 'Earth: Final Conflict.' He is repped by the Gersh Agency and Miles Levy of James/Levy/Jacobson. (Borys Kit)'
Reports have this role actually being booked out of Trevor's Toronto representation, Shirley Stefaniuk of Premier Artists Management, Ltd. And I note that Trevor is not a newcomer, he has been acting in theater since he was 9, and in front of the movie and television screens since he was 13: Trevor Blumas Filmography.
Some information about Trevor's character, named 'Teddy Harwood':
'Cute, hip, wry-humored, smart, playful, with an underlying sadness, Teddy works at the rink grooming the ice. He is a sensitive soul with the mind of an engineer. Although he is close to his sister, there is some noticeable friction with his mom. Teddy encourages Casey to follow her skating dream, and their flirtation grows into a romance.'
Check out this 'Plot Summary' of 'Ice Princess' at:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0396652/plotsummary
'The film follows a brainy ugly duckling (Trachtenberg) who realizes her dream of becoming a champion figure skater with the help of physics, a disgraced coach, three snooty ice princesses, a chorus of stage parents and the hunky boy who drives the Zamboni ice resurfacing machine. Summary written by Hollywood Reporter'
Hunky boy is right!! Beauty and the beast is right also!!! But Trevor Blumas is MUCH MUCH more than that!
Described as the 'hunky boy' to Michelle Trachtenberg's 'brainy
ugly duckling,' Trevor Blumas is more than a hunky boy, he is
a extraordinary acting talent. Trained in arts, drama, dance, and
music at Lester B. Pearson School for the Arts in Ontario, Canada,
Trevor has been acting in theater since he was 9, and in front of the
movie and television screens since he was 13:
Trevor Blumas Filmography
Besides being trained in the arts, Trevor is as fine an athlete as
he is performing artist, a rare combination to be found in young
people today, and Trevor's talents are so astounding, that it is
unlikely there is any other boy in the world his age who is so
well-rounded, balanced, multi-talented, and fiercely intelligent:
Talent Show Trevor
Talented, intelligent, physically-skilled in more ways than one, and drop-dead gorgeous, Trevor Blumas will become a BIG Star with his performance in 'Ice Princess.' His screen presence will be impossible to down-play, and the real question about this film will be how can Michelle Trachtenberg's screen presence overcome the screen presence of the most talented and handsomest young actor to come along in years, maybe decades, maybe ever?
So now, here's to Trevor Blumas: the most talented, intelligent, altruistic, courageous, and beautiful, actor and young man, in the world!
In April 2005, Trevor Blumas begins work on his next project, entitled 'Fury,' based on a script he purchased a couple of years ago from the son of his old Toronto agent, and which Trevor will produce, as well as act. And Trevor has also already been involved in the editing of the script, so this next new project will exhibit more of Trevor's talents in film-making than ever before in his career.
Since he completed the filming of 'Ice Princess' in July 2004, Trevor had not been able to obtain any other bigger and better roles, and this new project 'Fury' is planned to be completed in time for the 2005 Toronto Film Festival. The original script of 'Fury' was authored by Rob Stefaniuk, the son of Trevor's former Toronto agent, who previously authored a script entitled 'Phil the Alien' which is reported as having been given rave reviews at the 2004 Toronto Film Festival:
This old professional resume' says that Trevor's agent in Canada was a woman named Shirley Stefaniuk. Besides writing the script, Rob Stefaniuk also performed as the main character in 'Phil the Alien,' and although the film may have received rave reviews at the Toronto Film Festival, it is not doing very well in the IMDB opinion polls.
The director for Trevor's new project is Warren P. Sonoda, who worked as an editor on 'Phil the Alien,' and who also made his directorial debut in another 2004 film entitled 'Ham and Cheese.'
However, like 'Phil the Alien,' 'Ham and Cheese' is not getting good reviews at IMDB, and it must be hoped that the combination of creative elements in 'Fury,' with Trevor as producer, will produce a result that is much greater than the sum of it's parts.
Trevor Blumas.Net - http://www.TrevorBlumas.net/
TrevorBlumasGroup @ Yahoo! Groups - http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/TrevorBlumasGroup/
Trevor Blumas: Photos - http://www.universalway.org/Trevor/trevorblumas1.html
Trevor Blumas: Issues - http://www.universalway.org/Trevor/trevorblumas2.html
Trevor Blumas: Gay, Very Very Gay! - http://www.universalway.org/Trevor/trevorblumas3.html
Trevor Blumas: Trevor's Gay Secrets! - http://www.universalway.org/Trevor/trevorblumas4.html
Trevor Blumas: 'One Little Boy' - http://www.universalway.org/Trevor/trevorlittleboy.html
Trevor Blumas French Web Site By 'The Archangel' - http://www.ifrance.com/trevorblumas/
Trevor Blumas @ IMDB (Internet Movie Database) - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0089720/
Trevor Blumas @ FANSITES.COM - http://www.fansites.com/trevor_blumas.html
Trevor Blumas @ TV Tome - http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-21244
Trevor Blumas @ Filmbug - http://www.filmbug.com/db/263722
Trevor Blumas @ Filmbug - http://www.filmbug.com/people/b/trevor_blumas.html
Trevor Blumas Gallery @ TeenIdols4You - http://teenidols4you.com/pictures.html?g=Actors&pe=trevorb
Trevor Blumas @ Little Men Web Site - http://members.tripod.com/lmen/trevor.html
Trevor Blumas Little Men Chat - http://www.geocities.com/lmscripts/chats/trevorblumas.html
Trevor Blumas Artists Specials Gallery - http://members.fortunecity.com/aquila10/trevor_blumas.html
Ice Princess Movie - http://www.iceprincessmovie.com/
Little Men Web Site - http://lmen.tripod.com/main.html
Jane Doe Cast - Trevor Blumas - http://www.usanetwork.com/movies/janedoe/cast_blumas.html
Trevor Blumas can be a big star in movies and television, if he wants, and this article will clear up some confusing matters about Trevor and add some commentary, excitement, and even some controversy with this report about this talented young man.
Everything that Trevor Blumas chooses to do, he ends up doing well. To this point, every piece reviewed below in which Trevor has performed has been of high personal and social moral value, and has presented a positive and constructive message for people to learn (and nothing like the standard Hollywood fare). Any parent would be enormously proud to have a son like Trevor, and the good karma generated by his work is of a tremendous positive nature, for both him and for those who are fortunate enough to experience his performances.
But first, to clear up some confusing matters about Trevor regarding some credit entries listed at some Internet web pages, under the titles listed below:
Love on Land: Actually named 'Love on the Land,' this entry, found at http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-21244 and some other web pages, is actually the CBS mini-series 'Seasons of Love' (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0166796/) under another name (see below under 'Seasons of Love'). In this CBS mini-series, Trevor played a 'Teenage Son,' with additional credit detail not able to be found for him.
Bad Prospect: The information available shows that the entry listed as 'Bad Prospect' at the page: http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-21244 and some other Internet pages was actually another/working title for the movie 'Stranger in Town' (see below under 'Stranger in Town'). On this page: http://www.filmbug.com/db/70561 Rebecca Jenkins is mentioned as starring in a production entitled 'Bad Prospect' and at this page she is listed as starring in 'Stranger in Town': http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0175205/. On this page an Ontario-based production entitled 'Bad Prospect' is listed as a Showtime Networks production: http://www.dgcodc.ca/cgi/driver.cgi?com=productions&searchname=%5Eb and on the detail page at: http://www.dgcodc.ca/cgi/driver.cgi?com=showproduction&num=1342 an Elizabeth Sherberger is listed as the 1st Assistant director, and she is also listed as a 'Second Unit Director or Assistant Director: 1st Assistant Director' of 'Stranger in Town' at this page: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0175205/fullcredits. And on this page: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0175205/companycredits Showtime Networks is listed as the distributor for the film. There is additional information substantiating all this, so the conclusion must be that the entry 'Bad Prospect' for Trevor at some Internet sites is actually the film 'Stranger in Town' under another name.
So, that should clear up the matter regarding the Internet entries of 'Bad Prospect' and 'Love on Land' that are found at some Internet web pages.
The rest of this section is based on work found listed at the Trevor Blumas page at IMDB (Internet Movie Database):
SOME SPOILERS UPCOMING:
Earth: Final Conflict (1997), 'Float Like a Butterfly,' November 1997: Series episode playing 'Jebediah Good,' haven't seen it, don't expect to.
The Wall (1998): Trevor plays a young man who grows closer to his estranged Colonel father (Edward James Olmos) after witnessing the death of a wounded GI.
Stranger in Town (1998), also called 'Bad Prospect': Trevor plays Aaron, a child whose sister and single mother move to another town, where his mother eventually falls in love with a stranger/drifter they meet (a 'bad prospect'?) who takes a room in their new house and helps with the home restoration. Trevor's character does a little background investigation, and expresses concern to his mother about her new love interest (Harry Hamlin), but in the end, it turns out that someone else is really responsible for the troubles being experienced by Trevor's family, and Harry Hamlin's character ends up saving Aaron's life. I guess the moral of this story is: don't talk to, and don't trust strangers, but also, you better give people some slack or else you might be guilty of too much prejudgment yourself.
Seasons of Love (1998) also called 'Love on the Land': No detailed information available except that Trevor played a 'Teenage Son,' listed at http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-21244 and at IMDB at http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0166796/ and also known as 'Love on the Land' but with no additional credit given to Trevor.
Due South (1997), 'Easy Money,' September 1998: Series episode playing 'Young Fraser,' haven't seen it yet, don't expect to.
Little Men (1998): Trevor plays Nathaniel Blake, a street kid from Boston taken into a home school for both privileged and wayward children. This is the PAX series which ran for two seasons and during which Trevor became good friends with Corey Sevier (Lassie), and in which Trevor and Corey seem to be the major child stars. This series is based on the book by 19th century American author Louisa May Alcott, who also wrote 'Little Women.' In an episode during this series, Trevor had a kissing scene with Brittney Irvin, and in his Little Men chat he says: 'Considering it was my first time, I was pretty nervous, but on the later takes, I was confident.' I have seen this kissing scene, and it is actually one of the most sweetest, innocent, harmless scenes of the sort you will ever see, and delightful to watch. The moral of this entire series: all children deserve a chance, and when you give them a chance, and a healthy portion of love and compassion, then you, and the children both, will be rewarded.
Monet: Shadow and Light (1999): About the 19th century French painter Claude Monet, Trevor plays Daniel, a young French boy whose father (a painter, like Monet) has deserted his mother and who longs to see his father again, and Daniel eventually shows Monet (who is considering sending his own wife and child away) that all children require and deserve their fathers. This is the first piece in which I ever saw Trevor, and it remains one of his best pieces to this day. And Trevor's first shot in this piece (about a minute in) when an old French man lifts a crate and reveals Trevor's face, is astonishing when the audience gets a surprising and shocking view of the absolutely angelic face of a beautiful child. The moral of the story is obvious and excellent: all children require and deserve both of their parents, and it is the most profound message in any and all of Trevor's works.
Switching Goals (1999): Starring the Olsen twins, Trevor plays Gregg Jeffries, a young teen with an interest in one of the twins, but who is confused by a deception played by the twins that causes confusion for everybody. But it's not too big a part for Trevor, and the moral of the story must be: honesty is the best policy (seriously!). And it is a good moral too, because too many productions meant for children these days (such as Even Stevens) depict children and teenagers lying to their parents, lying to their friends, lying to their classmates, lying to their principals, etc., ad nauseum, and such a bad example often finds its way into families and society when people who admire the stars of the shows take to emulating their idols.
Dinner at Fred's (1999): Have not seen it yet, and do not expect to see it, but in this piece, Trevor performs as a magician.
Twice in a Lifetime (1999), 'Curveball,' September 2000: Series episode also starring Ed Marinaro, Trevor plays a teenage Ben Bogart, a young man whose father is verbally abusive. Miko Hughes plays a young man whose father is also verbally abusive, and is given a chance to go back in time and fix his relationship with his father, who turns out to be Trevor (who is the same age, through a trick of time), and whose own father (Ed Marinaro: Miko's grandfather) is also verbally abusive. And the moral of this episode is, once again, family oriented and directed at developing a strong relationship with your father.
Twice in a Lifetime (1999), 'The Choice,' April 2001: Another appearance in the PAX television series, this episode also stars Wil Wheaton. Trevor plays a young man ('Teenage Ryan Storey') whose older version (played by Wheaton) is given another chance to save his father's life, and in this episode, we see a very close relationship between a father and a son. The moral of the story is that all of our choices have an important impact on our lives, and the lives of other people, however, at the same time, this series is really an inaccurate depiction of the experience of death, which is now well-known due to the millions of anecdotal 'near-death experiences' reported by people and also experienced by people through experimental scientific operations.
Virtual Mom (2000): Have not seen it yet, but I understand that in this piece, Trevor sings.
Inside the Osmonds (2001): Trevor plays an older Jimmy Osmond, a small part, and appears only in the end, wearing an unflattering 70's/80's wig/hairstyle. I think this movie and role is essentially unflattering for Trevor, and, because of the wig/hairstyle, many of his scenes highlight some facial quirks which, inevitably, are not quirks at all, because, in the end, Trevor is the standard by which all young men must be judged, and whatever 'quirks' or characteristics he has, only contribute positively to what must be concluded are the epitome of over-the-top masculine looks. And the moral of the story is that Hollywood will cheat, ripoff, use and abuse, and spit out even the most well-intentioned and moral of families.
The Unsaid (2001): Trevor's masterpiece to this day, in my opinion, as he plays a troubled budding homosexual teenager whose father (played by Andy Garcia) does not understand about his depression or about his budding homosexuality and sends him to a psychologist friend, who is married but ends up multiple-molesting Trevor (we do not see this, it is just background later exposed as a 'special friendship'). Trevor is mostly in the first 10 minutes of this movie, until he commits suicide, and then appears in flashbacks afterwards, and the important messages in this movie are, of course, unsaid, and take a little thinking to understand. In this movie, Trevor exhibits a range of facial expressions and emotions that perfectly exemplify his acting talents, his courage in playing such a role is extraordinary, and he expands his character and acting range greatly by his performance in this role. In fact, the extreme range of facial expressions displayed by Trevor in this role is spectacular, to the point where sometimes you can barely tell it is Trevor at all: the calling card of an extraordinarily talented actor is the ability to clearly express particular emotions on his face. Also, a short scene with Trevor wearing a baseball cap is the essential Blumas: as he turns his head and body in a shy, embarrassed manner and smiles coyly at the camera, he exhibits all of what he is. And there are some shots of an absolutely adorable baby/toddler/child (well, ALL babies/toddlers/children are adorable, but this one is especially so, and the child exhibits astonishing intelligence in his eyes), and if this baby/toddler/child is actually a younger Trevor, then that's no surprise (the facial characteristics of the child are similar to Trevor's later in his life, so the conclusion must be that the baby/toddler/child is a younger Trevor). The moral of this story is: look what happens when parents do not raise their children with the utmost of unconditional love, patience, understanding, and personal morality, all of which leads to gay teen suicide and incest, in this particular instance.
Jane Doe (2001): Trevor plays the son of a woman (Teri Hatcher) who is framed for murder, and it turns out that Trevor's father (Rob Lowe) is a spy for the U.S. government, participating in a twisted plot to feed bad military information to a foreign government, and has recruited Trevor to help him in his spying, to his mother's regret. Trevor has a major part in this movie, that was mostly panned in the media, and he is excellent, of course, working well together with Teri Hatcher, as they run around trying to solve the mystery behind the crime. And the moral of the movie 'Jane Doe' is that the U.S. government is out of control and fraught with corruption, and this is a valid and true message to this very day.
Guilt By Association (2002): Trevor plays the son of a woman (Mercedes Reuhl) who is sent to jail for associating with drug dealers and falling victim to a plea-bargain deal by the real perpetrators. Another small part for Trevor, and he only begins to appear about halfway into the movie. Near the end of this COURTTV movie, there are some angled profile shots of Trevor that are, again, astonishing, and his last shot in the movie, a straight on shot where he is looking directly at the camera, identifies the fact that this young man is actually getting better looking as he gets older, something seldom seen in teenagers these days. The moral of the story is profound: laws that allow the main perpetrators of a crime to escape justice and end up punishing the innocent, are not really fair laws and is not really true justice at all.
Prom Queen (2004): The first role that Trevor Blumas chose after an almost two year hiatus, was a role in a made-for-TV film that was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in October 2003 by Tapestry Films of Toronto for CTV (Canadian Television), entitled 'Prom Queen,' which is about the plight of 17 year old gay Ontario high school student Marc Hall who wanted to bring his boyfriend to his Catholic High School prom and ended up suing his school, and won the right to do so in a controversial court case. The role played by Trevor is a fictionalized friend of Marc Hall named 'Beau,' and the film originally aired on June 1, 2004 on CTV in Canada.
Ice Princess (2005): A Walt Disney Production being filmed
in Toronto, Canada from April to July 2004 is entitled 'Ice Princess'
and stars Michelle Trachtenberg as the lead, and Trevor Blumas
as the Zamboni driver (Teddy Harwood) who helps the 'Ice Princess'
overcome adversity and discover her true talents.
Trevor Stars in 'Ice
Princess'
Fury (2005): An independent production slated to be completed for the 2005 Toronto Film Festival is entitled 'Fury,' based on a script written by the son of Trevor's old Toronto agent and in which Trevor Blumas will produce as well as act.
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It will be interesting to see the personal and social value of Trevor's role and life choices in the future, and if his role choices fall in line with some of Hollywood's bad examples (which he may have to do in order to become the next big star) or if he will continue to have a 'prudent' and 'cautious' career and search for positive, constructive roles that produce good messages and good karma for both the players and the audience, and which would be a slower rise to stardom. In other words, will he compromise with Hollywood's bad examples (which have had a bad impact on many people recently) in order to become a big star, or will he stick to his guns and his ideals, and take a slower road to stardom?
The Choice is his, and it will be interesting to see which way Trevor goes in the future.
Monet: Shadow and Light (1999): This is a television movie that is a part of 'The Artists' Specials' series presently running on HBO cable channels, produced by Devine Entertainment, and starring Stuart Hughes and Trevor Blumas. It is a sensitive and interesting piece, mostly for children, which attempts to make the pertinent points revolving around the life and works of the 19th century French painter Claude Monet, and mostly succeeds in that effort by using a light, easygoing, comedy-docudrama style which is eminently inviting to both children AND adults.
SPOILERS UPCOMING:
The plot revolves around a family theme: Monet (played by Stuart Hughes) and his wife and baby are staying in a room at an inn in a quaint French town which is run by a middle-aged French woman (Maggie Huculak) and her young son, Daniel (played by Trevor). Daniel's father, also a painter, has supposedly gone off on his own to make his name in painting, every now and then sending a letter home to his son, however, the truth is that Daniel's father has left his mother for another woman, but Daniel doesn't know this, because his mother has told him that Daniel's father has gone to Avignon to make his way in painting, and Daniel's mother has written the letters to Daniel which are supposedly from Daniel's father.
Monet, a struggling artist, is supposedly in the same 'boat' as Daniel's missing father, and his bills and his troubles have him considering sending his own wife and baby off to fend for themselves, while Monet tries to make his own name. Things get very tough for Monet, but Daniel proves to Monet, through his own experiences, that it would not be a good idea for Monet to send his family away, that every child needs its father, and eventually Monet agrees, and then ends up rescuing Daniel from running away from home when Daniel learns the truth about his father, and his mother's deception.
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The moral of the story is obvious and excellent: all children require and deserve both of their parents, and it is the most profound message in any and all of Trevor's works. And by performing publicly in such a conscientious role, Trevor opens up the door for some of the discussion that follows:
So I'm watching cable some Saturday morning in the spring of 2000, and I see this program coming on about Monet, which I figure I'll give a shot for a few minutes. About a minute into the piece, a crate is moved by an old French man and there appears from behind it a face that I immediately realize is the most beautiful face of any person, male or female, child or adult, that I have ever seen in my life.
I remember I said something like 'Holy Sh*t, you gotta be kidding. Who is this kid . . . and who are his parents?' and I remember I sat there astonished for a while, until shortly afterwards, the old French man pats the same face with his hand, and the face breaks out into a blinding smile, resulting in more astonishment.
So many children in the world today are living such incredible lives of pain and suffering, and it shows in their faces. Even the luckier children in the world, who seem to be getting at least some of the love they require and deserve, just don't look really happy anymore, but perhaps that is really the way that it should be, in a world with such pain and suffering for so many people. And so many of the children in the world today, are missing one or both of their parents, a situation which denies them a quantifiable amount of love in their life that every child requires and deserves.
The face in the Monet show turned out to belong to Trevor Blumas, and I was delighted to know that there was at least one child in the world who, it was obvious, was having the time of his life and getting more than all of the love he required and deserved from his parents and from life, the type of love that all children require and deserve.
All babies are born beautiful to the extreme of the beauty of their parents, no matter how ugly their parents may be. A baby, born with an angelic cherubic face, will retain that cherubic face if given the amount of love it requires and deserves, and this is because the baby will be happy and will laugh and smile alot, and the baby's facial muscles will continue to maintain the angelic cherubic face, simply because the baby's face is exercised into the 'smile' or 'laugh' 'position' so often and with such emotions of love (muscle memory). So very often can be seen the type of love a child is receiving from its parents, right in the face of the child itself.
Too often seen these days, are children whose cheeks are flat, or sunken, whose eyes show fear or look dark and tired, whose lips turn down at the ends. In fact, this is what happens to the majority of children these days. Only the luckiest do not fall prey to this development, and Trevor Blumas is obviously one of the luckiest, so lucky to have been given the amount of love he required and deserved to maintain most of the characteristics of his angelic, cherubic face, apparently all the way into his middle-teen years.
It is said that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and while that may be true, there are also absolutes that can be discerned that usually emanate from ancient Universal archetypes. Characteristics such as round cheeks, button/pug (dog) noses, dimples, cleft chins, high foreheads, puffy lips, and bright eyes, many of which can be traced back to the natural characteristics of babies, can all be seen as absolute archetypal characteristics of beauty, for one reason or another, for the human species and for many other species with faces.
And facial beauty is not just an expression of base physical constructs: in many cases it is an indication and a manifestation of the spiritual beauty of the life form before birth, along with the combined physical beauty of the parents, along with the mental beauty (love) that the child receives from its parents and from the Universe in life.
And a 13 year old Trevor Blumas tries to share some of his extraordinary good luck in life through his performance in 'Monet: Shadow and Light,' by participating in a piece that teaches an ultimate lesson for children, the lesson that all children require and deserve both of their parents. It is a lesson that you must hope is learned by all children, and a lesson that you must hope they do not forget when they grow older, and seek intimacy and maybe become parents themselves.
But too often seen these days are children who have never learned the lesson, or have learned the lesson and have chosen to ignore it in their lives, and thus, threaten the love that another child requires and deserves from both of its parents. And too often, children threaten the love that another child requires and deserves by searching for love in places that are better left for after marriage, and instead we have children who do not have both of their parents or whose parents cannot provide the love or resources necessary for the children to flourish in life. And this is a tragedy, every time it happens.
Also too often seen these days, are children who teach such lessons at such an early age, only to forget that lesson and turn into exactly the opposite example of the lesson that was taught. It is a test of intelligence and compassion for every child, to learn the lesson and apply it all throughout life, and not do anything that would threaten the love that another child requires and deserves from both of its parents.
Trevor Blumas teaches his audience, who are mostly children, a most important lesson in life in 'Monet: Shadow and Light,' a lesson of responsibility in parenthood. Can Trevor do it? Can he keep to his own lesson? And then, what does it mean when your most loved children make the same mistakes as your unloved children?
And, can YOU do it? Can YOU learn the lesson that Trevor wants you to learn, and not do anything that threatens the love that YOUR child requires and deserves?
Fatherless Homes Breed Violence - '(Because only a portion of each age group grew up in a fatherless home,) these statistics translate to mean that children from fatherless homes are: 5 times more likely to commit suicide; 32 times more likely to run away; 20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders; 14 times more likely to commit rape; 9 times more likely to drop out of high school; 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances; 9 times more likely to end up in a state-operated institution; 20 times more likely to end up in prison.'
Fatherlessness! Impact on Children, Families & Society
Fatherless America-Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem
Consequences of Fatherlessness
Children really do need a dad around, researcher concludes
This is the PAX TV series about life after death in which Trevor Blumas guest-starred in two episodes. The premise of this series is that, early in an episode, the person who is the subject of the episode dies, begins experiencing the process of death, is met by another soul (a stranger) who will accompany the subject and act as an advisor, and is presented before a judge dressed in jurist garb, with whom the advisor and the subject then negotiate for another chance to go back in time in the life which the subject has left:
Twice in a Lifetime (1999), 'Curveball,' September 2000: This episode starred Ed Marinaro as Trevor's father and Miko Hughes, as Trevor's son. Miko plays a teenage ballplaying boy whose father verbally abuses him when he disappoints on the field. Well, Miko dies at the beginning of the episode, but is given a chance to go back in time in his life and correct his relationship with his father. When Miko goes back in time, Trevor is his father, now a teenager again, and Ed Marinaro plays Trevor's father, who is also Miko's grandfather, and it turns out that Trevor's father is verbally abusive in much the same way that Miko's father will be, in the future.
Miko tries to keep his father, Trevor, from leaving home, because of verbal abuse that Trevor's character receives from his father, and eventually succeeds, teaching both Trevor, Trevor's father (Marinaro), and himself a lesson about the relationship between father and son. At the end of this episode, when the lesson is learned, Trevor cries and hugs Miko: he plays it well, of course, and I have read that some people on the Internet say that they wish that they were Miko in that scene.
The moral of this episode is, once again for Trevor, family oriented and directed at developing a strong relationship with your father.
Twice in a Lifetime (1999), 'The Choice,' April 2001: Another appearance in the PAX television series, this episode also stars Wil Wheaton. Wheaton plays a middle-aged man whose father has become severely mentally challenged since an operation on his heart many years earlier, an operation which the father was talked into by a younger Wheaton, played by Trevor. Wheaton dies at the beginning of this episode, and is allowed to go back in time and reevaluate his influence on his father to have the operation, and when Wheaton goes back in time, his teenage character is played by Trevor.
Again, we see close relationships between father and son, and we see the sometimes harmful ramifications of influences and choices made from selfish motivations, instead of selfless motivations. In the end, Wheaton performs a successful operation on his father, and everything works out for the best for all involved.
The moral of the story is that all of our choices have an important impact on our lives, and the lives of other people, and sometimes on the very people whom we love so much, such as our father.
And so far, in his acting career, to this date, to my knowledge, Trevor Blumas has appeared in six pieces that have stressed the importance of father-son family relationships ('Monet,' 'Twice in a Lifetime' twice, 'The Unsaid,' even 'Jane Doe,' and I also understand that his role in 'The Wall' was similarly related), so it is clear that this young man understands the importance of a strong father-child relationship, and the human carnage caused by fatherless homes.
While Trevor plays both of his guest-starring roles in 'Twice in a Lifetime' with his typical excellence, it must be noted that this series is essentially an inaccurate depiction of the experience of death, which is now well-known due to the millions of anecdotal 'near-death experiences' reported by people and also experienced by people through experimental scientific operations.
I myself have had 'near-death' experiences in the past, and have studied the phenomenon of the 'near-death experience' extensively, and must report that numerous common elements have been identified as part of the 'death-experience' from the evidence available. Never have I experienced or seen a true experience described like the experiences which are presented as rote in the series 'Twice in a Lifetime': where the subject of death meets a stranger soul who accompanies and advises the subject and where the subject is judged by a life form dressed in jurist garb seated behind a bench and given a chance to go back in time in their life. However, at the same time, it must also be noted that such experiences, where a soul is given a chance to go back in time to correct an important matter, are the extreme exceptions in the matter of the 'death-experience' and only occur when the life form involved is of such importance to a particular quantum timeline that it requires such an exception to be made.
The way that the Universe normally responds to the matters featured in 'Twice in a Lifetime,' is by simply performing the standard life after death self-judgment (using Universal absolutes), and either sending the life form back in life to essentially the same point in time, or allowing the life form to progress out of the previous life and into the next life which awaits them, such station in entry into that life which depends on the accumulated karma of the particular life form.
In the past, Trevor has said that his favorite movie was 'Beetlejuice,' which is another inaccurate depiction of the experience of death, and interpretations of the 'death-experience' in productions such as 'Twice in a Lifetime' and 'Beetlejuice' are most often appropriate manifestations of the perception of the 'death-experience' by life forms whose own karma is of such weight that they do not have the ability to discern the real truth in the matter, and thus the partial or inaccurate 'truth' that they allow themselves to see is one which is consistent with their own ability to understand Universal truth (this does not refer to Trevor).
If you are interested in Life After Death, you can read an article
by a person who has had such experiences, and who has studied the
matter extensively, prompted by the despair of the death of his own
mother to cancer when he was 17 years old:
Is There
Life After Death?
International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS)
Insights Into the Afterlife: 30 Questions and Answers on What to Expect
Near Death Experiences - Dr. George Ritchie
Spirit Online: Near-Death Experiences
Eternal
Spirit: Practical Spiritualism, For Those Who Want To Know
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'But often what is not said, is far more important than what is said.'
The Unsaid (2001): Produced in 2001 and released on VHS in 2003, 'The Unsaid' is a psychological thriller starring Andy Garcia and Trevor Blumas, which features two parallel mysteries that touch on many serious subjects and raise many serious questions, and which leaves many of the answers to its own questions themselves unsaid. It's a movie about two children at risk, put at risk by the questionable actions of parents, and in the end, the story of the life of one of those children ends up helping to save the other, but only after the lives of several other children are put at even greater risk, by a victim child now turned perpetrator adult, and predator too.
SPOILERS UPCOMING:
The plot revolves around a family theme: a family theme revolving around stories relating to two families. Andy Garcia plays Michael Hunter, a psychologist who has problems in his own home. Michael's son, Kyle (played by Trevor), is upset about something, so upset that he commits suicide about 10 minutes into the film, setting the foundation for an understanding of Michael's own psychology as the film continues.
Subsequently, after a few years, an old colleague of Michael comes to him with another case, a boy named Tommy (played by Vincent Kartheiser) and asks Michael to take the case. Eventually, Michael takes on the case, and soon realizes that the boy in question often reminds him of his own son, and this is not only because of a psychological resemblance, but because Tommy is seeing Michael's daughter, and obtaining clues about how to manipulate Michael. Tommy's original troubles stem from an incident where he was witness to his father beating his mother to death, ostensibly because the father caught the mother cheating with another man, however, there is more to this story. Eventually, Tommy shows a violent side, although he initially seems to have his act together and continually flashes a smile all throughout the film, a smile that must inevitably be described as eerie.
And eventually the truth comes out about both sons: Michael, in confronting Tommy's father in jail (for the killing of Tommy's mother), confesses that he found Kyle's suicide note and discovered that Kyle committed suicide because of a homosexual relationship with his own psychologist (a trusted, married friend of Michael's), and Michael describes the subsequent suicide of the trusted psychologist friend when confronted by Michael with the molestation. Upon this admission, Tommy's father (played by Sam Bottoms, never forgotten for 'Apocalypse Now'), tells Michael that the man with whom he caught his wife cheating, was the little boy Tommy himself.
That mutual confession opens everything up, and soon Michael is on to Tommy's game, and chases him down before Tommy gets so desperate so as to kill Michael's daughter. The movie ends with Michael saving Tommy from an attempted suicide (after Tommy had committed a series of murders), and Tommy and Michael meeting (in jail) to discuss his future with Michael fully willing and now able to help Tommy, all of which seems to blur the lines between victim and perpetrator, since Tommy has now killed several people in the process of uncovering and exposing his true feelings about what happened in his childhood.
'But often what is not said, is far more important than what is said.'
With the two mysteries finally cleared up at the end, what has not been said or what has been veiled, challenges the audience to look beyond the first glance and seek the true meaning, often hinted at by the film, but left unsaid.
One example is stark: those alert enough to catch a camera shot of a photograph of Kyle's molester with his wife and child right after the man commits suicide, realize that Kyle's molestation was carried out by a heterosexual man who was married with a child. This is unsaid, and hinted at by the camera shot itself, so subtly inserted, and with blood on the photograph. And this is a challenging clarity, and something important, because a disproportionate number of the child molestations that occur, even when of a homosexual nature, are by people who know the children and who are married and/or allegedly heterosexual people living family lives. And this is also one of the unsaid things about such matters.
There is more left to be unsaid, and some of it surrounds Kyle's story, particularly when Michael confesses to Tommy's father that ever since Kyle reached puberty he had been experiencing a depression, which prompted sending Kyle to Michael's trusted psychologist friend in the first place. When the truth is learned behind Kyle's suicide motivations, that it was because of a 'special' friendship with his psychologist, which he could not deal with any longer as a secret, what is unsaid is that Kyle was a teenager experiencing depression due to the homosexual thoughts that most teenagers have when they reach puberty. What resulted between Kyle and the psychologist must have been due to Kyle's admission of his depression due to his homosexual thoughts, and the psychologist taking advantage of Kyle's vulnerability in the matter of an already interested party is the definition of a true predator.
And Michael's confession also adds perspective to the unsaid in another scene (but only after the fact), about halfway through the movie, where Michael is playing handball with Tommy in a gym, and juxtaposes Tommy with Kyle, and before you know it, it is Kyle instead who is playing handball with Michael. When Michael confronts Kyle, sitting in the stands in the gym, with the plea 'Talk to me, why can't you talk to me? . . . Please?,' Kyle answers, 'Okay . . . but just not now.' Played sensitively and spectacularly by Trevor, spoken with perfection emanating from his lips, what Kyle is avoiding is apparently not a confession about his shame about his experiences with his psychologist, but a confession to his father that he is gay. And it is in this unsaid truth that we understand that Michael is really avoiding the fact that it was HIS attitude towards his son and homosexuality that was really responsible for Kyle's suicide, and the 'molestations' by his psychologist friend.
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Inevitably, unsaid in the movie 'The Unsaid' is that it is a movie portraying parents in a very negative light, even apparently good parents, along with parent's and society's reaction to a teen's discovery of the homosexual side of his nature and his acting out of that discovery with a predator. And also unsaid is that, because of this, Kyle's suicide is a statistic of gay teen suicide caused by the condition of gay youth in western civilization more accurately than any other statistic under which it could be categorized. And often, what is unsaid in the film 'The Unsaid,' is far more important than what is said in the film.
And actually, that is part of what makes 'The Unsaid' a good movie: the fact that it forces people to look for the unsaid in matters so important as these, because so very often, it is the unsaid that is the real truth in the matter.
'But often what is not said, is far more important than what is said.'
Andy Garcia plays the starring role with strong and believable emotions, and he was obviously a driving force behind the said and unsaid messages in this movie. Vincent Kartheiser, looking a little worn and drawn, seems to just miss a little with Tommy, though he looks the part and smiles well enough to eventually provide chills.
Trevor Blumas plays Michael's 16 year old disturbed budding homosexual son, exhibiting a wide range of facial expressions that give strong indications of his character's emotions, and Trevor deserves much credit for taking on such a sensitive and challenging role. In fact, the extreme range of facial expressions displayed by Trevor in this role is spectacular, to the point where sometimes you can barely tell it is Trevor at all: the calling card of an extraordinarily talented actor is the ability to clearly express particular emotions on his face.
Essentially, the film 'The Unsaid' exemplifies how forms of sexual behavior that are socially-unacceptable can be so damaging to children and families, and it exemplifies that sometimes the damage that occurs is as much because of the reaction of parents and society to the forms of behavior, as the psychological/painful impact of the behavior itself.
And here are a few questions that highlight one of the important unsaid messages in the film 'The Unsaid': If Kyle was involved in a relationship with a female psychologist instead, would it be looked upon the same way as Kyle's relationship with the male psychologist, and would he have been driven to commit suicide because of his knowledge of his parent's and society's reaction to the matter (see Taran Noah Smith and Edward Furlong)? If Kyle would have been involved in a relationship with a woman of a much greater age, would his father have reacted the same way to its discovery, or would he have been proud at his son's conquest and his proving that he was a 'man'? And is it more dangerous for Kyle, and other young men and women, to pursue physical intimacy with the opposite gender outside of marriage, or is there another solution to the problems surrounding the undeniable human need for physical intimacy?
The Degrees of Acceptance - 'What do you say after someone you love says, 'I'm gay'? That's the question our family faced a decade ago when the oldest of our six sons told his mother and me that he is homosexual.'
A Child Is Listening . . . - 'It was not God's will that Bobby jump over the side of a freeway overpass into the path of an eighteen-wheel truck, killing him instantly. Bobby's death was the direct result of his parent's ignorance and fear of the word gay.'
A Child's Insight - Out of the mouths of babes: 'Why would loving someone make anybody else mad?'
Sexuality, Marriage, and Moral Values
Heterosexual Atrocity is not a Gay Right - 'Closer to home, go to any abortion clinic, and when you see a sixteen year old girl sashay out, go up and ask her what she thinks of homosexuals and homosexuality. 'O gross!' she'll probably bellow, the blood still warm on the insides of her thighs from her abortion. 'That's disgusting.''
Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and
Lesbians - Supporting abortion and opposing homosexuality is
preposterous: abortion is baby murder used as birth control and
homosexuality is an expression of free will within consentual
sexuality. A true Pro-Life AND Pro-Choice position opposes abortion
as baby killing used as birth control by immoral heterosexuals, and
supports equal rights and acceptance for homosexuals even to the
point of proposing that, instead of heterosexual abortion,
homosexuality be recommended for casual sex and as a natural method
of birth control.
Abortion and
Liberty, Gays
Must Affirm All Life
Jane Doe (2001): This movie has been described as 'Lois Lane gets to be Superman' by some media outlets, because in this made for television movie, Teri Hatcher ('Lois Lane' in the Superman television series co-starring with Dean Cain) plays a mother who must go to all ends and use all of her powers in order to save her son (played by Trevor Blumas), and then herself, from certain death.
SPOILERS UPCOMING:
Trevor plays Michael Doe, the son of Teri Hatcher and Rob Lowe, and the movie starts with Jane Doe (Hatcher) getting a telephone call informing her that her son, Michael, has been kidnapped, and then Jane goes running around town meeting her son's kidnapper's demands until she frames herself for the murder of her former boss. That's when Trevor appears, and he's got a good sneer going on in this movie, just another series of facial expressions among the numerous he has exhibited in his works.
Now, Jane and Michael Doe make their escape from the frameup, and eventually meet up with Jane's former husband and Michael's father, David Doe (Rob Lowe). Turns out that he is a spy for the DIA (U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency), and has recruited Michael to be an operative for his operation, which is to pass bad military information through Jane's company to a foreign government, which was why Jane was framed in the first place. Well, now it turns out the the operation is dirty, and the lives of all the Does are in danger.
In the end, Michael's father is killed, but Jane and Michael get their revenge by foiling the entire operation, and making away with 2 million dollars of the budget of Michael's father's operation. And the moral of the movie 'Jane Doe' is that the U.S. government is out of control and fraught with corruption, and this is a valid and true message to this very day.
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Trevor has a major part in this movie, that was mostly panned in the media, and he is excellent, of course, working well together with Teri Hatcher, as they run around trying to solve the mystery behind the crime. And working well with Hatcher is a difficult feat in movie-making these days, as it has been reported that Hatcher is some sort of 'hell on wheels' on the set of her productions and has thus gained an unpopularity with many of her former co-workers. And Hatcher has also gained a reputation for being linked with numerous co-stars and other Hollywood celebrities, and this reputation belies her present role of mother to her child, Emerson Rose, born in 1997.
As a addendum to this review, it must be noted that Teri Hatcher has filed for and obtained a divorce from her husband since 1994, Jon Tenney: this information coming via several Internet reports based on the divorce papers filed in court. Irreconcilable differences were cited, and the former couple have agreed to joint custody of their daughter, but she will live with Hatcher.
You just have to hope that the time that Teri Hatcher spent with the talented and incredibly good-looking Trevor Blumas during the filming of 'Jane Doe' did not contribute to the breakup of her marriage (what normal woman could resist his charms, much less Hatcher?), because that's really bad for both Hatcher's child and Trevor too, being involved in something that threatened the love that a child requires and deserves from both of its parents: it would be a very big hypocrisy by Trevor (see 'Monet: Shadow and Light'), and would be pretty much the same thing that happened to Trevor's character Kyle in 'The Unsaid.'
Now, some people may say that all of the above is simply the private business of the people involved, and while that is true, people who move into the public limelight and who are ripe to be made into 'role models' by young people, are subject to a more intense form of scrutiny for their actions than the everyday private person. This is because, in moving into the public sector, where a person derives benefit from services performed for public consumption (politics, entertainment, etc.), the public person moves into an area where he/she becomes an example for young people within their sphere of influence, and takes on the responsibility of such an important role.
Here's an example: an actor who has gained a certain popularity among his fans for being conscientious in his role choices, eventually chooses a role in a movie where he falls in love with a woman who turns out to be married with children, and in the movie the actor eventually overcomes the problems and wins the woman, breaking up the woman's original marriage with children (or perhaps even, this even happens in real life to the actor).
A fan of this actor has been following him throughout his career, and has decided to himself, consciously or subconsciously: 'I like this actor and I wanna be just like him,' or 'I am going to use this actor as a role model.' The fan sees the actor in action and decides that it must be okay to fall in love with married women if his role model would do such a thing, and then the fan goes out and changes his perspective on sexual relations and eventually falls in love with a married woman with children, resulting in the breakup of that marriage with children. And only the fan and God know what was going on in the fan's mind which caused him to do the dirty deed in the first place.
Thus, because of the actor's actions, certain children will be forced to live their lives with their family broken up, denying them a certain quantifiable amount of love then, and throughout life, and thus, the people responsible for that lost love will experience the rebound negative karma from the loss of love by the children, including the fan who perpetrated the act, and the actor role model who inspired the fan to do the same thing, IF the fan was actually inspired by the actor to perpetrate the act, and only the fan and God know the truth about that.
Multiply this situation by the number of times it has actually happened, and the negative karma generated by such actions is incalculable, and incomprehensible. And this is why it is so important for young actors who present such positive and constructive messages to stick to their guns the rest of their career and the rest of their life, lest they turn everything that they have done in the past into one heaping bowl of hypocrisy for their fans and the public to swallow, and eschew the solemn responsibility which they have voluntarily taken upon themselves.
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The film 'Ice Princess' starts with the three top female stars being billed, Michelle Trachtenberg, Kim Cattrall, and Joan Cusack, and then another one, Hayden Panettiere, and then finally Trevor Blumas. The movie starts out slow and seems to be a comedy. Character development is spotty, and Trevor shows up about 10 minutes into the film, to my delight, since I expected he would show up later than that.
Trevor's appearances are spotty and he never really gets a lot of consecutive face time, and I sense some uncomfortability to some of his lines and facial expressions. But he is, of course, still very handsome, and in most scenes, looks surprisingly rugged. And Trevor lisps less than I thought he would, and came off a little better in the role than I thought he would too.
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The film sparsely develops the idea that the Ice Princess is a scholastic genius, who then becomes sidetracked by her dream to skate. The scene that got the most laughs was when her mother comes into the rink and finds out for the first time that the Ice Princess is learning to skate, and at that point, Michelle introduces her mother to Trevor in a stuttering manner, and that is what got the most laughs in the entire movie.
Then, from starting out seeming like a comedy, the movie takes a turn and seems to morph into a drama, including a conspiratorial element that seemed to captivate the audience when the disgraced skating coach, played by Kim Cattrall, deviously buys the Ice Princess some new skates right in the middle of a competition, when everyone knows that it takes about 10 days to break in new skates. The Ice Princess struggles with the new skates, and the skating coach's daughter benefits from her struggles.
From there, the Ice Princess is determined to make her bones in skating rather than at Harvard, and decides to take on the conspiratorial skating coach as her own coach. Then, in a flash, the film jumps ahead two months, we later find out, right to the sectional skating competition, where the Ice Princess has some initial failures, but ends up doing well and garners a silver medal for the competition.
The film ends with Trevor coming onto the ice at the coliseum where the sectionals were held with a bouquet of roses, gives it to the Ice Princess, and he kisses her a little, and then, the skating coach Cattrall, the Ice Princess Michelle, and the mother Joan Cusask, are seen exiting the coliseum and talking about future plans for the Ice Princess.
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As the credits roll, I wait to see the cast, and Trevor is the 7th billed cast member, another disappointment, especially since when the film was first announced, and it was announced that Trevor had obtained the role, he was the second billed star at several web pages about the film, until the other stars were added, such as Joan Cusack and Kim Cattrall. However, by the time the film made it out into the theaters, even Hayden Panettiere had obtained a higher billing that Trevor.
What I didn't get about the film was a lot. First of all, the still photos and the trailer used in the promotion of the film had Trevor's kissing scene outside at the Ice Princess' skating pond near her house, and that never happened. In that scene, we see Trevor place his long and elegant fingers on the chin of the Ice Princess like we see in the stills and the trailer, but he never kisses her at that point in the film. And then, the kissing scene that was seemingly promoted to have been outside at the pond, happens inside at the coliseum after the sectionals. But it was a nice kiss by Trevor, and that figured, because he is an excellent kisser.
And I also didn't get the point in the movie where the Ice Princess decides to dedicate herself to the sectionals, which jumped ahead two months into the future, and left me with sort of an empty feeling and wanting to have seen some of the difficulties she went through to get to that point, but not even a montage of those difficulties was used.
And I also didn't get that, in the trailer for the movie, besides using scenes that suggested the kissing scene was outside at the skating pond, there was a bit where the Ice Princess is at a party dancing with Trevor and she causes the lights in the house to be blown out some how, and that scene was missing from the movie also.
All in all, 'Ice Princess' is not an outstanding movie, and Trevor's performance also was not outstanding.
Here are some other reviews of the film:
'Ice Princess' was done better when it was 'Princess Diaries'
And here are some related links:
Trevor Blumas Stars in 'Ice Princess'
