Mar 7th, 2010
Ben Mulroney traumatizes a nation of Oscar night tweeters
Ben Mulroney and his wife are expecting twins! Just what the country needs seven days after the Winter Olympics — a third generation to continue the legacy of Canada’s least popular prime minister, and CTV’s least popular host of etalk. Perhaps paternity leave is what it’s going to take to keep Ben away from the [...]
Mar 5th, 2010
Tim Hortons investor conference sells more hope than federal budget
Roll Up the Rim To Win, that uniquely Canadian season between winter and spring, was given added poignancy this year with the tearjerking Winter Olympics commercial affirming that Tim Hortons is now an integral part of the immigrant experience — even if The Globe and Mail assigned a crack reporter to reveal that the spot [...]
Mar 5th, 2010
March 5: Citizens on patrol
New Line reviving Police Academy [The Hollywood Reporter]: “It’ll be anything but another movie with a numeral next to it,” promises producer Paul Maslansky. “And we’ll most probably retain the wonderful musical theme.” While the first four of seven installments were filmed in mid-1980s Toronto, more interesting were a few of the landmark names used [...]
Mar 4th, 2010
March 4: The word business
A lament for the bookshelf [Russell Smith, Globe and Mail]: “People come to see my minuscule new living room and say, hmm, you could have another foot and a half without that wall of bookshelves. True, but then you would never be able to distract yourself, while waiting for me to dress, by pulling down, [...]
Mar 3rd, 2010
Mindy Cohn wants the wrong George to be her boyfriend
The biggest star to appear at the Stage West Dinner Theatre since “Doc” from The Love Boat starred in Viagra Falls last fall is the actress who played the first of The Facts of Life girls to lose her virginity. Per the review of Glorious! in The Mississauga News: “I have no idea if Mindy [...]
Mar 3rd, 2010
Juno nominees for Video of the Year haven’t seen you either
Considering that it was nominated for a Grammy last month — if ultimately losing to “Boom Boom Pow” by the Black Eyed Peas — it’s no surprise that “Mr. Hurricane” by Montreal group Beast (see above) is nominated for Video of the Year in the 2010 Juno Awards . But a category that might [...]
Mar 3rd, 2010
March 3: Movies or margarine
The Pocket Change Film At Home By Myself… With You starring Kristin Booth opens in Toronto for an exclusive engagement [press release]: A romantic comedy about a meta-phobic single woman who hasn’t left her apartment in six years, financed with $42,000 in donations procured by asking online for pocket change. The cast has some overlap [...]
Mar 2nd, 2010
The Art of Marketing: free hugs, hate school, drink Jäger
The Art of Marketing, a one-day $399 six-speaker conference at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre — promoted in the above video — had at least a few of its 1,200 attendees tweeting like it’s 2009, despite no Wi-Fi on the premises. But this bunch just wants to be inspired — a decade ago, companies had [...]
Mar 2nd, 2010
Juno Awards forced to cope with the end of ‘Canadian Idol’
Following a Winter Olympics closing ceremony whose surprise medley of musical talent assured Canadians that there might be more insufferable things than Nickelback — whether unfortunately aging emo boy bands Hedley and Simple Plan or unfortunately aging angsty female shriekers Avril Lavigne and Alanis Morissette — the nation will turn its lonely eyes to the [...]
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