dream brought to life
Callumlangham@gmail.com Born on this day (Jan. 27) in 1931, Mordecai Richler was a great Canadian contrarian. The...
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Hoser humour takes off
Created to both satisfy and mock CBC-TV’s Canadian content requirements, SCTV‘s Great White North chat show added the...
Less horror than humour
I like to think that celebrity aquanaut James Cameron is wearing green today (March 17)...
Standing by her man
In the movie business, love often blossoms in the workplace. So it was for tall,...
National treasure chest
In 1991, the NFB’s internationally renowned cartoon studio turned 50. The American animation aggregator Terry...
Wall-to-wall cop comedy
Between careers as an NFL running back and an accused murderer, O.J. Simpson spent some...
Pitching a home-run hit
An example of a star who peaked early, the 10-year-old Tatum O’Neal was the youngest...
Questing for consistency
Excoriated for his politically incorrect 1975 cartoon feature Coonskin, adult animation pioneer Ralph Bakshi refocused his...
Being Alice no easy role
On this day in 1864 (Nov. 26), Charles Dodgson, a 32-year-old Oxford mathematician, delivered an...
Fossil fuel farce fails
For nearly 40 years, he held to the old-fashioned idea that movies were more than...