The Three Acting Amigos: Pinsent, Gross and Hawco The Republic of Doyle has been under siege all year. Moved to Sundays by budget battered CBC, they’ve had to dodge or battle the Oscars, the Grammys, the Screenies and the Super Bowl, not to mention the Walking Dead. This Sunday, their season finale goes up against
Critic’s Corus (l-r): Owen McCorquodale, Danielle Sefton, Film Boy, KateCalder & communications manager Netta Rondinelli. Photos: Barbara Kelly A flurry of print deadlines has kept me from thanking some folks who helped make Tuesday’s TV on Film Project screening such a success. First and foremost, thanks to Netta Rondinelli and her communications team at Corus
For a variety of reasons, last week’s radio chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson is just getting posted now. The buzz last week was the return of Mad Men, and there is much discussion of that here.The second episode of the season, directed by Jon Hamm, ran this past Sunday. Hamm has directed the past two
Regular readers of this site may be asking if this is now a daily obituary blog. No, but the death of Roger Ebert, Annette Funicello, Johnny Esaw, Jonathan Winters and now Frank Bank in the span of one week sure makes it seem that way.Sadly, Boomers are in for a steady parade of death notices
“If Jonathan Winters is ever accused of anything, he’s got the perfect alibi,” Jack Paar once told his audience. “He was someone else at the time.” Winters was a wonder on television, unlike any other comedian in that he never told jokes, he just inhabited characters. Not crazy, made up characters either, but astoundingly real,
Laurence Fishburne spent several months in Toronto this winter shooting Hannibal. Episode Two airs tonight at 10 p.m. on NBC and City. The Tony and Emmy Award winner fielded questions from behind the desk of his character, FBI Behaviour Sciences Head Jack Crawford, when I visited the set along with some international reporters a few
From Tuesday night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: A prop phaser gun from the “Star Trek” TV show recently sold for $231,000 at an auction — making it the most expensive thing you can point at someone right before they beat the crap out of you.
Gerry Dee and Mark Little trying not to get picked up at the Menz Bar I play hockey in a teacher’s league in Brampton and one of my teammates told me the other day he ran into a former student.“Hey–Mr. D!” the kid shouted.It was not a compliment.Several teachers and teammates have told me they