Sad to hear of the untimely death of the Toronto’s Sun’s iron man of editorial art, Andy Donato. The man spent a lifetime drawing cartoons. I met Andy many years before I worked as the Sun’s television columnist from 1999 to 2007. Back when I was a student at the University of Toronto I used
The biggest shock now about the September 11 attacks is that they happened 25 years ago. When I was barely a teen in 1970, it seemed unfathonable that World War II had ended just 25 years earlier. The world seems to be spinning at such an excellerated pace now, 25 years seem to have flown
Bloody hell! Wasn’t Ozzy Osbourne supposed to live forever? The Black Sabbath frontman and self-proclaimed “Prince of Darkness” died Tuesday at 76. Besides a half century of substance abuse, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famer battled Parkinsons and emphysema. Not being much of a Heavy Metal fan, my first exposure to the Warwickshire, England,
Yes, that’s me in the shadows on tonight’s episode of Son of a Critch. I was in St. John’s interviewing the cast last August during production of Season 4 of the CBC sitcom. When I was asked if I’d like to also sneak into a scene as an extra or “background performer,” it didn’t take
Early last month, when I wrote about the death of Canadian talk show host Mike Bullard, it reminded me of a turning point for one of the biggest late night stars in America: Conan O’Brien. Now 61, O’Brien was 40 early in 2004 and after a decade at 12:35 a.m. secure enough in his job
I don’t think I ever met anyone who had a bad word to say about David Onley. The Citytv television journalist and former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario died January 15 in Toronto. He was 72. Onley was stricken with Polio at the age of three, resulting in partial paralysis. Starting his on-camera career in 1984
Twenty years ago today, the world changed with the 9/11 attacks on America. It was a privilege to help mark the occasion today in The Toronto Star with a report on how Canada’s national news anchors calmly and under trying circumstances delivered the story to a shaken nation. The Star report is a comprehensive, ad-free
Apparently I wasn’t the only one who loves the salute to the classic ’70s amd ’80s era of wrestling depicted on the new NBC series Young Rock. I happened to post a link to a review of the series Tuesday on Facebook and a few former Toronto Sun colleagues came down on me like the