A tale of tragic choices
Callumlangham@gmail.com On this day (April 17) in 1945, the 24-year-old Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft was...
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time for mellowing out
In Vancouver in 1974 as a supper-club headliner, singing star Carl Anderson talked about playing...
A man for rabbit season
During his 60-year career in radio and motion-picture sound studios, Mel Blanc was known as...
Can this be love?
At first blush, it’s a marriage made somewhere north-northwest of heaven. When James Spader entered...
Th-th-that’s all, folks!
Director Joe Dante understands the power that star performers bring to his live-action cartoon visions....
Managing the extra mile
On this day (April 12) in 1980, a one-legged youth from Port Coquitlam, B.C., began...
A multi-faceted diamond
An actor with a real love of the game, Kevin Costner seems to have enjoyed...
Winter warfare fantasy
Canada’s sesquicentennial celebration continues today (January 15) at Vancouver’s Pacific Cinémathèque with a free, Cinema...
Coming of age on screen
In Vancouver in 1974 for the world premiere of The Inbreaker, a B.C.-made film in which...
You, me and the camera
Pioneering Canadian director Allan King set out to make a new kind of documentary in...