Goodpods Top 100 Television Podcasts Listen now to brioux.tv: the podcast Ali Weinstein is the writer/producer/director behind “Your Tomorrow,” a look at Ontario Place the summer before it was shut down after 52 years. For over five decades a 155-acre Toronto waterfront sanctuary, it is being radically redeveloped. Gone are 850 West Island trees. Instead
In June of 1996 I flew to Winnipeg to interview Dan Aykroyd. At the time, the former Not Ready for Prime Time Player was on location and starring as aviation executive Gordon Crawford in the CBC miniseries The Arrow. Gordon was the maverick behind the Avro Arrow, a twin-engine fighter-interceptor built by Toronto’s A.V. Roe
“TORONTO GOAL SCORED BY NUMBER 27, DARRYL SITTLER…TIME, FIVE-O-FOUR. UNASSISTED… TOMORROW AFTERNOON THE MARLIES PLAY HOST TO THE PETERBOROUGH PETES…” Paul Morris’s straight forward goal announcing still rings in my ears to this day even though he ceased to be the Toronto Maple Leafs’ public address announcer at the end of the last century. He
This photo was taken 50 years ago, on September 28, 1972. That’s me, second from left, in the Australian bush hat with the buttons on it. I’m flashing a victory sign over Chestnut Hills neighbour Brian Schofield’s head. To the right of me stands Dan “Dunc” Currie, Pat Bullock, Mike Forcier and Glen Rippon. Mike
Got 30 seconds? A friend posted this recently on Facebook so I thought I’d share. Many years ago, when I was a young lad working at TV Guide, I did a little work on the side making TV commercials with my buddy Andy Tough. Andy, who I met doing videos at Maclean-Hunter Cable TV, went
PASADENA, Calif. —I’ve been working the press tour for 25 friggin’ years, dating back to when PBS and CBS used to host critics way out in the desert in Phoenix, Az. I’ll never forget my first TCA (Angela Lansbury, Redd Foxx, Flip Wilson and Larry, Daryl and Daryl from Newhart were among the stars). I