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Kids in the Hall among the talent on CBC's slate of winter shows

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From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: CBC,  Gordon Pinsent,  Ken Follett,  Bruce McCulloch,  Dave Foley

WES ANDERSON

D irector Wes Anderson first fell in love with Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox as a boy, and approached the author's estate nearly 10 years ago about adapting the book for a stop-motion animated film. Due out in theatres on Wednesday, the movie took a ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bill Murray,  Roald Dahl,  Wes Anderson,  George Clooney,  Meryl Streep

‘It was drudgery, every day, I tell you'

It's rare to meet a male actor who, when asked, won't cough up his age. But Vancouver native Chris Heyerdahl will only offer his in vampire years. “I'm 3,112 years old,” chuckles Heyerdahl, who won the casting lottery last year when he got the part of ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dakota Fanning,  Michael Sheen,  Kristen Stewart,  Robert Pattinson,  Taylor Lautner

The Geminis: buddy, can you spare a tux?

At Saturday night's 24th annual Gemini Awards ceremony in Calgary, the cameras will capture Canada's top TV talent, gussied up, glam and giving the impression that an actor's life is impossibly charmed – even grand. But scratch beneath the high-gloss ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Paul Gross,  Chrysler,  Buffalo Bills,  eBay Inc.,  Stoney (musician)

The Geminis by the numbers

S aturday night's 24th annual Gemini Awards will be broadcast live for 90 minutes from Calgary on Global and Showcase, starting at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Some stats on the program – hosted by comedian Ron James – to fete the best in Canadian television: 99: The ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Amy Jo Johnson (musician),  Henry Czerny

Ewan McGregor: Staring down goats – and others

Ewan McGregor was seated beside his co-star George Clooney at the Venice Film Festival, where their film The Men Who Stare at Goats premiered, when a man at the back of a packed press conference dropped his drawers and asked Clooney for a kiss. “I am ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ewan McGregor,  Jeff Bridges,  George Clooney,  Grant Heslov,  Hilary Swank

Barney's Version gets a ‘stupid' Cronenberg cameo

It's not often directors David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan get a tongue-lashing from their producers. But last week – on set in Montreal to shoot cameos in the upcoming feature film Barney's Version – the multiaward-winning filmmakers were thoroughly ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David Cronenberg,  Paul Giamatti,  Paul Gross,  Atom Egoyan,  Mordecai Richler

Cronenberg and Egoyan: Did you catch them?

U sually they're behind the camera, but Atom Egoyan and David Cronenberg are no strangers to the cameo. Cronenberg on TV A doctor on ABC's upcoming series Happy Town A neuroscientist on the Jennifer Garner series Alias Cronenberg on film Don McKellar's ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Atom Egoyan,  David Cronenberg,  Jennifer Garner,  Don McKellar,  Gus Van Sant

Overnight success – in 4 1/2 years

Director Peter Stebbings was sure his quirky script for the superhero movie Defendor had all the necessary ingredients – humour, social injustice, drug dealers and a love story – to attract an audience in Canada, but, more importantly, abroad. The ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Sony Pictures,  Woody Harrelson,  Sandra Oh,  Universal Pictures,  Tom Ford

Eating Buccaneers: a film spoofing advertisers' worst qualities

In the upcoming comedy, Eating Buccaneers , a narcissistic group of type-A advertising executives subsist – after surviving a plane crash in Canada's north – on a box of chocolate bars. In the low-budget Canadian film, the actors (which include Peter ...

From GAYLE MACDONALD, Globe and Mail,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Gordon Pinsent,  Jeff White,  Rick Mercer,  George Costanza,  Lloyd Braun

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