Arts & Entertainment

Admire their talents, not their lives

February 21, 2012 Arts & Entertainment

Whitney Houston joined the tragic group of talented people whose lives were destroyed by their stardom and drugs. When recent pictures of Houston kept popping up after her death, I had to look twice, because that wasn’t the Whitney Houston, not even close, I knew as a teenager when I listened to her music. Clearly, [...]

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Let’s be clear: many celebs are just airheads

January 5, 2012 Arts & Entertainment

On his TV show, Charles Adler once asked me why some public figures felt the need to appear “politically correct” when they didn’t really subscribe to that nonsense. To which I replied: Because many of those in the public limelight – politicians, actors, and even public servants like prosecutors – want to be liked, and [...]

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Alec Baldwin – a Limousine Liberal who needs to be restrained hard

December 9, 2011 Arts & Entertainment

Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin was recently removed from an American Airlines plane after he refused to stop making calls on his cellphone and punching doors and walls. A textbook cliché of a Limousine Liberal.

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Mary Walsh, the CBC’s obnoxious ogre

October 27, 2011 Arts & Entertainment

Canada’s state broadcaster has two kinds of political satire – the good kind, and the bad kind. The good kind is represented by such programs as Air Farce or anything that Rick Mercer has been associated with. This Hour Has 22 Minutes, however, is an example of the bad kind (that is, in its post-Mercer [...]

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Network TV is not worthy of the genius that is David E. Kelley

October 16, 2011 Arts & Entertainment

Steve Jobs was the genius of the computer world. He knew, unlike the clowns who run Microsoft or RIM, for example, how to design computers and other gadgets the right way. No one in the industry will ever be able to hold a candle to him. The equivalent genius of the television industry is David [...]

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Canadian TV – the good and the bad

September 25, 2011 Arts & Entertainment

Blame the cold, long winters in Canada, if you will, but Canadians have always been heavy consumers of TV and entertainment, as well as any of the technology needed to consume TV shows, music or movies. I remember seeing global statistics published by The Economist about twenty years ago that showed Canadians as the world [...]

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The Office – who will be the new boss?

May 22, 2011 Arts & Entertainment

Thursday was the season finale of The Office. Viewers were treated to a parade of guest stars who played characters interviewing for the open position of plant manager.

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Eurovision Song Contest 2011 and revisiting the past

May 17, 2011 Arts & Entertainment

Following last weekend’s Eurovision Song Contest, and people wondering just when exactly Azerbaijan became a European country, it may not be such a bad idea to revisit the past and take a trip down memory lane … to a time when the Song Contest still produced worthy contestants and songs.

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Editorial: First they bring out the axe, then the crocodile tears

May 16, 2011 Arts & Entertainment

The ordinary TV viewer must be asking himself or herself: Why do I still bother wasting my time with all the new shows networks put on? After all, a new show comes on, people watch it, they start getting into it, but then the show is taken away from them, often leaving them hanging with [...]

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Literature should never be messed with

January 8, 2011 Arts & Entertainment

Most commentators so far seem to agree: censoring Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn is a really bad idea. One editorial and a columnist in one newspaper alone today express their misgivings about this unfortunate attempt to edit works of literature.

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