Dave Foley's a Kid Again
By STEVE TILLEY
HOLLYWOOD -- Canadian comedy fans' dreams could come true next year, if Dave Foley has anything to say about it.
Foley, who cut his comic teeth on the ground-breaking, much-loved CBC sketch series Kids in the Hall, says a Kids reunion tour is in the planning stages, and could come to a city near you in a matter of months.
"We're talking about going on tour in January, doing a theatre tour," Foley said last weekend during an interview for his upcoming feature film Dick, a comedy starring Kirsten Dunst (Drop Dead Gorgeous) and Michelle Williams (TV's Dawson's Creek) which opens Wednesday in Calgary.
"I had the whole group over to my house a couple of months ago, which was the first time we'd all been together in four years."
Which is not surprising, given that each member of the troupe -- Foley, Scott Thompson, Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney and Kevin McDonald -- has risen to some level of showbiz prominence since Kids in the Hall, which lives on in syndication on Canada's own Comedy Network.
"It'll be old sketches," Foley said of the pending Kids tour.
"We're hoping we can clear some time to get together far enough in advance to maybe write some new stuff, to link stuff up together, try to change it around a little bit."
Foley's own life has changed a lot from his Kids in the Hall days.
He starred in the recently cancelled NBC sitcom NewsRadio, played opposite Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone in Blast From the Past and provided the voice of Flik in last year's computer-animated Disney hit, A Bug's Life.
Dick sees Foley join Dan Hedaya (Cheers' Nick Tortelli), Will Ferrell (Saturday Night Live) and former Kids colleague McCulloch in a comic bit of revisionist history about the infamous Watergate scandal.
Two ditzy girls (Dunst and Williams) stumble upon the shady dealings of Nixon (Hedaya) and take their findings to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (Ferrell and McCulloch), leading to the president's resignation and earning their place in history as the secret source known as Deep Throat.
Foley plays Nixon's beleaguered chief of staff Bob Haldeman.
Being nine years old -- and Canadian -- when the Watergate scandal broke in 1972, one would assume Foley knew very little about Nixon when growing up. But that isn't so.
"I was nine when the story started and 11 when Nixon resigned, but I was delighted by it," Foley said. "I had such a loathing of Nixon, and just from a very early age thought he was a corrupt and horrible man."
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