Are we all watching the Olympics? Certainly in the U.S. that is all anyone is watching. There have been several reports on this, but Bill Carter, as usual, nailed it early with this piece in the New York Times, A Surprise Winner at the Olympic Games in Beijing: NBC: The Games have drawn an average
Jerry Krupnick may not be a name most readers here will recognize. If it sounds like a name straight out of a sitcom, well, not exactly. Jerry Krupnick was a TV critic, and he died last Thursday at 82. Alan Sepinwall, who took over Krupnick’s beat about a decade ago, has all the details in
Attention Sherri Woodstock watchers. Check out this wonderful article in Saturday’s Toronto Sun by Jason MacNeil. The feature captures the essence of why we all loved Sherri (who passed away in April at 28), gives some insight into her mom Debbie’s plans to honor her daughter with this concert and reminds every one to get
Here is an excerpt from a story I wrote this week for The Canadian Press: TV critics rarely get gooey or sentimental. Something to do with having to review too many stupid summer shows involving Japanese obstacle courses, has-been celebrities in “Big Brother”-style homes or, say, another season of “Gossip Girl.”But when the Smothers Brothers
Deadline Hollywood Daily’s Nikke Finke broke the new yesterday that Tori Spelling does not have a deal to join the new 90210. As Nikki herself would say, “Toldya!” Back on July 13, I reported here that I had spotted Spelling and her Canadian-born hubby Dean McDermott at the Hollywood Collectors and Celebrities Show in Burbank,
Tickets are now available online for Sherri Woodstock, the concert in memory of former Toronto Sun scribe Sherri Wood. For twenty measly bucks, you can be rocking to headliners Classic Albums Live, who are going to make you believe Led Zeppelin are back touring after that gig in London late last year. Also on the
Sat at a picnic table talking to Pamela Anderson this week. Honest!Mind you, the blond bombshell was 4,000 or so kilometres away.Anderson was in a Vancouver hotel room doing interviews to promote her new TV series Pam: Girl on the Loose (airing Sunday evenings on E). I was sitting in the shade at a picnic
In case you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m back on cottage time. The August long weekend approaches, and I’m sorry, but, the call of the lake is greater than the call of the blog.If you are looking for something serious to watch this weekend, PBS is rerunning The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer’s