Gala host Ron James and honoree George Anthony. Photo: copyright Jag Photography The Toronto International Film Festival is often one big hype-a-thon, a blur of red carpet sightings and celebrity hustle. Last Thursday, I had the privilege of attending one sane and civilized little corner of the star cluster, the 6th annual Playback Canadian Film
McCallum in the ’60s Quick: name an actor or actress who was a top star on a hit show in the mid-’60s and is starring on a hit show today.Okay, the photos kinda give it away. The answer is David McCallum, who starred opposite Robert Vaughn as Russian spy Illya Kuryakin in The Man from
“Dick Van Dyke rescued from burning car.” There’s a headline that will get your attention. The 87-year-old actor has survived marriage to a 40-year-old and even headaches from his giant titanium teeth. Now he’s getting pulled out of a flaming Jaguar on a Los Angeles freeway. I blame tripping over that auto-man all those years
Just over two years ago, I met Lee Thompson Young on the set of Rizzoli & Isles. It was reported Monday that the 29-year-old actor has taken his own life.Just as when Cory Monteith was found dead earlier this year, the news seems unbelievable. Why would this young man, working on a hit TV show,
Monteith with Lea Michelle Dammit. There are just no words. It just makes me want to hug my own kids. Cory Monteith, you never seemed to let any of that crazy Glee fame ride go to your head. “I remember thinking when we found Cory it’s a good thing he’s Canadian because otherwise he’d be
HBO Canada has been rerunning The Sopranos lately and I have found myself drawn right back in to episodes I have seen two, three, four times already. The main reason? James Gandolfini. His performance as Tony Soprano remains one of the great achievements in television. News of his sudden death–I learned in a car getting
It is a great regret that I never really got to know Peter Worthington. The founding Toronto Sun editor passed away earlier this week at 86. I remember introducing myself to Worthington when I was hired at The Sun in 1999. Told him how much I enjoyed his dust ups with Sun legend Paul Rimstead
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