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Two generations of 90210 hit the Geminis

Weird as it seems, British Columbia native Jason Priestley credits the Persian Gulf war for helping to catapult the Aaron Spelling series Beverly Hills, 90210 into a 10-year hit on Fox. “It wasn't an overnight success,” says Priestley, on the horn ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  26 Nov 2008

OUTtv urges Shaw to comply with ruling

Two weeks ago, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ruled that Calgary-based Shaw Communications was discriminating against gay and lesbian channel OUTtv by refusing to pitch the digichannel to subscribers, and by bumping it ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2008

Izzy'd be devastated, 'but most of it is his fault'

It seemed logical to ask Izzy Asper's biographer Peter C. Newman if the late media mogul would be rolling in his grave as a steady stream of bad news engulfed CanWest Global this week, which laid off 560 people and saw its stock price slump to 80 cents. ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  15 Nov 2008

She almost blew it

Lisa Ray blames herself - and a cocky attitude - for the fact that she got off to a rocky start with the British-based company, Enlightenment Productions, that has made her two most recent films, The World Unseen and I Can't Think Straight. Three years ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  11 Nov 2008

Pas de deux: The couple that dances together ...

Dance fans will soon to be able to take in the first-time principal partnering of two of the National Ballet's premier performers: newlyweds Greta Hodgkinson, 34, and Etienne Lavigne, 31. The couple, who have dated for years and wed last summer at ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  5 Nov 2008

Dear Diary

For the past seven years, Toronto actress Mia Kirshner has been obsessed with self-financing and publishing her debut book, I Live Here, a harrowing tribute to the overlooked victims of war, corrupt governments and crippling "I worked on the book - ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  28 Oct 2008

Grace under pressure

When Debra Messing was in the emotional throes of wrapping the final season of NBC's hit comedy Will & Grace, she remembers craving some time to “be still and figure out what I was hungering for creatively.” After eight years of playing the lovable, ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  21 Oct 2008

A movie only a Canadian could make

Author David Bezmozgis is in his mother's tiny kitchen giving direction in English and Russian as he prepares the next shot for his debut feature film. A hand-held monitor sits propped up against a pot on the stove. Plastic covers the linoleum floor. ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  21 Oct 2008

The double life of Alicia Keys

Eleven-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys says acting in feature films is a walk in the park compared with the mental and physical rigours of making an album. “Let's put it this way, the hours are way better on film,” chuckles the 28-year-old, who co- ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  20 Oct 2008

Michael Cera, the little dweeb who could

Michael Cera walks into a room at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto, shrugs off his red knapsack, and shyly asks if anyone minds if he makes himself a cup of java. “Do you mind if I make a coffee real quick?” asks the actor. “I like it with sugar and ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  3 Oct 2008

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