This is already everywhere, including Facebook, but what the hell–it deserves to be embedded throughout the Internet.Ron Howard is The Bomb. (What was he directing? Could…could it be that long-rumoured Arrested Development movie??) When Opie says America is headed down a “divisive and wrong-headed path,” you have to listen. I’d watch he and Andy Griffith
My buddy John Doyle calls the other day. Sounded dreadful. Just back from Ireland and sick as a dog. Needs a favor: can I fill in for him as an interviewer at the Playback Innovations Forum?Which brings us to this Tuesday at 1:20 at the Jane Mallett Theatre at the St. Lawrence Centre for the
How rude can we get? Valerie Pringle asks the direct question in her CBC documentary Rude: Where Are Our Manners? It airs next Thursday, Oct. 30 on CBC’s Doc Zone.It is a question you could well ask of today’s politicians but never of Pringle herself, although she’s the first to insist she’s not above the
More yakkity-yak about that crazy Rent-A-Goalie trip to Newfoundland can be heard on this week’s radio chat with CHML’s Scott Thompson. You can listen in here. Included are details from my interview with Phil Esposito at the RAG third season premiere party Monday. Espo was offered a role in The Godfather?! That should have been
Show a teen a documentary on the ’60s and you get the usual, “Peace out, man.” Show them Chicago 10 and get them hooked.Brett Morgen’s clever and compelling documentary kicks off another season of Independent Lens tonight at 9 p.m. on most PBS stations. (Note to Toronto area readers: Buffalo affiliate WNED–always the renegade–doesn’t have
Family Guy is often cited as the series that was rescued by DVD sales. The show was canceled–twice–by Fox after failing to grab a big audience during its first two seasons. Subsequent DVD sales went through the roof, and Fox ordered the series back into production a year and a half after it was halted.One
“Best…Road…Trip…Ever!”That was the phrase repeated over and over again as I tagged along with the Rent-A-Goalie gang on the Eastern portion of their cross-Canada hockey marathon. Deer Lake, Newfoundland, was memorable for it’s magestic scenery but even more for its people. As RAG boss Christopher Bolton (standing, right) said at the Deer Lake arena Thursday