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
I know this goes way back to Thursday night, and I should be more on top of things here, but, hell, I was in a bar in Deer Lake Newfoundland with the Rent-A Goalie cast. Whore-a Nora was there, rubbing up against everything but the pop machine, for Pete’s sake. Langers mom was on her
DEER LAKE, NEWFOUNDLAND–I’ve been too busy chasing pucks and puck heads to post up on TV Feeds My Family the last few days. Christopher Bolton, the star, writer and creator of the Showcase series Rent-A-Goalie, called me up and invited me to join the cast and crew in a charity hockey game this week in
Am I the only one who watches Peter Mansbridge and Wendy Mesley on election night and thinks there’s something else going on? Every time he throws to her and she peers at him over those sexy granny glasses, you gotta know those two are back 20 years ago, necking behind the Front Page Challenge flats.