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Cory Monteith: The boy next door

07/16/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Mark Leiren-Young The only time I saw Cory Monteith in person was at a Canucks Game. He and his on-screen and off-screen love interest Lea Michele were in their Canucks jerseys at GM Place cheering on the home team at game one of this year’s playoff debacle against the San Jose Sharks. Their smiling […]

Filed Under: Culture, Leiren-Young Tagged With: Canada, celebrity, entertainment, television, Vancouver

Man of Steel: 9/11 with a chaser

07/03/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By TJ Dawe In Man of Steel, Metropolis sure takes a pounding. Building after building after building gets a super-person thrown through it. Many collapse. Superman fought the same villain — General Zod (and cohort) — in Superman 2 (1981), including a battle in Times Square, but the worst property damage there was a smashed […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: 9/11, comic books, film

The Indiegogo fix

04/15/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten One of the biggest stories in the entertainment world in the last month has been the unstoppable support given to the long-ago cancelled television series “Veronica Mars.“ Fans have rallied behind show creator Rob Thomas, not just with enthusiasm, but with dollars to make a feature film version happen. Thomas’s Veronica Mars […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: film, finance, internet, money, television

Canadian Screen Awards: More Short -pipes, please

03/04/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten If it wasn’t for host Martin Short, the Canadian Screen Awards last night would have been a real dud. This first year of the awards, aired on CBC, was partly a grand experiment. The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television combined the bereft-of-an-audience Genies and Geminis — separate awards for film and […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Canada, Canadian film, Canadian Screen Awards, Canadian television, entertainment, film, Martin Short, television

Argo: We’ve written ourselves out of history

02/26/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Paul Mather Okay I never do this, but everybody else in the house is occupied and it’s too icy to jog (or at least that’s what I’m telling myself). So, I’ve poured a cup of coffee, and here’s a long post. I was reading today about Argo. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Academy Awards, Australia, Canada, film, history, Hollywood, Iran, Sweden, television, U.K., United States

Steven Tyler’s anti-nip slips bill

02/11/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Mark Leiren-Young Forget what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas — if Steven Tyler has his way, what happens in the Aloha State will stay safely under the grass skirt. Yes, Hawaii could become a safe haven for the species known as “tabloid fodder.” Liv Tyler’s dad, who used to sing with a rock […]

Filed Under: Culture, Leiren-Young Tagged With: celebrity, law, music, television, U.S.

The NHL is back, but I won’t be

01/21/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon A couple of my friends came over this evening to watch the Habs-Leafs game on my big screen TV. And they were surprised to find out that I hadn’t been planning to watch it, until they turned up. And that I wasn’t the least bit excited that the season had finally started. […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Canada, Don Cherry, hockey, NHL, Stephen Harper

Canadian humour: Deadpan, or just dead?

01/11/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Vanity Fair devotes its January issue to celebrating comedic geniuses, and more than a handful of the spotlighted actors and writers have Canadian roots. But before all that celebrating begins, an essay by Bruce McCall ponders the dearth of Canadian comedy, and wonders whether it even exists. McCall, an ex-pat Canadian author […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Britain, Canada, comedy, magazines, U.S.

Gary Bettman’s new NHL — the No Hockey League

12/17/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Mark Leiren-Young I’ve figured out Gary Bettman’s grand master plan for the NHL. He’s decided to run it without players. No players means no games. No games means no overhead, no pesky salaries, no arena rentals, no worrying whether superstars get concussed, no superstars, and, best of all, no hockey. Now Bettman can focus […]

Filed Under: Culture, Leiren-Young Tagged With: Canada, Don Cherry, Gary Bettman, hockey, NHL, Ron MacLean, sports, U.S.

Pavel Bure: Love at first shot

11/14/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Mark Leiren-Young When Pavel Bure sat down in the stands beside me, my brain vanished as if he’d snapped it away with his lightning fast wrist shot. This was training camp, 1992, just after he won the Calder Cup for Rookie of the Year, becoming the first Canuck ever to win an NHL Award. […]

Filed Under: Culture, Leiren-Young Tagged With: Canada, hockey, NHL, Russia, sports, Vancouver, Vancouver Canucks

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