Where do documentary filmmakers go to find that historic clip or interview nobody else has? Many turn to the CBC Archives in Toronto. The vast, climate controlled vaults at the CBC Broadcast Centre are home to approximately 1.5 million hours of digitized material. Those restored holdings are drawn from over 90,000 cans of film, 215,000
TIFF’s annual unofficial launch party, the Hollywood Suite breakfast, took place Friday in Toronto. This year, the venue was changed from the Omni King Edward to the Fairmount Royal York Hotel. The verdict: more elbow room, as well as better bacon and eggs, inside the Royal York’s one time Gino Empry emporium, the Imperial Room.
If you grew up watching SCTV, or John Hughes films such as “Uncle Buck” and “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” and especially if you grew up in Canada, John Candy is part of your family. Thirty-one years after his death in 1994 at 43, he’s still your Uncle Buck, the guy who makes you laugh the
Did you happen to see this Tuesday’s episode of The Amazing Race Canada? If you missed it, you can catch up with the series anytime by streaming it on Crave. Have to admit, I stepped off this bandwagon a few summers ago. I used to write about TARC all the time, especially when I won
I’ll never forget the time I went to interview Graham Greene and he was dressed as a tree. The Oscar nominated actor (for his role as Kicking Bird in Kevin Costner’s 1990 feature “Dances with Wolves”) could play anything. Besides a tree, as he once told George Stroumboulopoulos, he played “an old Jewish man in
If you are a fan of comedy, film, television, movies, music, or even Bazooka Joe bubble gum jokes, join me this week in conversation with Frank Santopadre. For over eight years and 600 episodes he brought comedian Gilbert Gottfied in like a tugboat to harbour in the truly amazing Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal podcast. Santopadre,
The 61st annual Cinecon is this weekend at the Writer’s Guild Theater in Los Angeles. This is the granddaddy of all the classic film festivals, programmed by the president of the organization, currator Stan Taffel. This is where archivists, authors, collectors, and film fans come together for four days of classic film & TV screenings,
I went into the vault this week to create a 3-Pack of favourite TV stars from the ’60s. Two are from interviews conducted in 1997 at a Hollywood Collectors autograph show. This one featured about 70 stars from the past including the co-owner of the hotel, Beverly Garland (My Three Sons). First up is Dawn