For many young Canadians growing up in southern Ontario and western New York in the early days of television he was simply known as “Uncle Bill.” Bill Lawrence, the original host of CHCH’s Tiny Talent Time, suffered a heart attack and passed away Friday, July 14. He was 91. For decades, Lawrence was a very
Los Angeles is not a place where age is celebrated. The Hollywood sign remains, and the quaint, small-town-y Farmer’s Market and, sure, the Chinese Theatre and Musso and Franks. But this is a city of face lifts, and LA just got its Eye fixed. CBS Television City Studios, aka the cube behind the tube, is
When Alan Arkin did not return for Season Three of The Kominski Method, you felt his absence. Today’s news is much harder to take. Arkin, who had a history of heart problems, passed away June 29 at his home in Carlsbad, Calif. He was 89. The Oscar, Tony and Golden Globe award winner was born
Back in the ’80s, you rarely saw anybody waving around sex toys on TV. The one shining exception was Sue Johanson, who passed away Wednesday, surrounded by family, in a long-term care home in Thornhill, Ont. She was 93. Johanson was a registered nurse and sex therapist who gave advice to several generations of Canadians
Together with my son Dan, I finally had a chance to visit “Mr. Dressup to Degrassi: 42 Years of Legendary Toronto Kids TV.” The colourful, multi-media exhibit is scheduled to run through mid-August at Myseum of Toronto at 401 Richmond Street West (eastern entrance). This is a great place for kids of all ages to
Treat Williams brought a lot of likeability to his role as Dr. Andy Brown on The CW series Everwood. He had already won accolades for his early roles in the film production of “Hair” (1979) and in the Sidney Lumet crime drama “Prince of the City” (1981) before resurfacing on TV in his forties as
As a child of television growing up in the west end of Toronto in the early 1960s, I was always confused about the opening of a local children’s show called Commander Tom. A narrator boomed off the top that the commander’s top secret headquarters was, “somewhere on the Niagara peninsula.” “Somewhere”? It looked like a 50-storey
George Maharis has taken his final exit from Route 66. I interviewed the actor on the phone in 2012 when he was promoting Route 66: The Complete Series, a 24 disc boxed set from Shout! Factory. Maharis, 94, died May 24 at his home in Beverly Hills. A decade earlier, he spoke candidly about his