You can draw a straight line from Mort Sahl to Dave Chappelle. Fearless, contentious, uncompromising and sometimes his own worst enemy. The Montreal native died Oct 26 at his home near San Francisco. He was 94. His rise in the mid- to late- ’50s was so pronounced it seems as if he should be older.
I was recently asked to write a Valentine’s Day feature listing ten recommendations for romantic movies viewers can rent or purchase through Rogers Ignite. (You can read that feature here.) I included a film I cherished at first sight when it opened in cinemas in 1977: “Annie Hall.” At the time, it was breathtakingly original,
A day after the announcement of shomi’s demise, the service put out a release saying it recently topped 900,000 subscribers. SVP David Asch was quoted as saying that this “would likely make shomi a Top 10 service in North America.” Hey, I was one of them and if you were into Transparent, Mozart in the