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Tribute to ‘The Boys’ Wayne & Shuster

Tribute to ‘The Boys’ Wayne & Shuster

by alan gordon They called them The Boys in the halls of the CBC. Wayne and Shuster were in their 60’s but still they were called The Boys. And for years The Boys turned out four hours a year of highly produced, tightly written wonderfully funny comedy specials and they were popular. Their CBC Sunday […]

They Took Manhattan Musical Performance

They Took Manhattan Musical Performance

Music director Lily Ling & Robert Cushman will be hosting a concert Monday, November 23 at the Holy Blossom Temple @ 8pm. The performance will include Gabi Epstein, Michael Therriault, Alana Hibbert, and Michael Nadajewski who are four of the top musical comedy talents in Canada. They have played on stages from the Shaw and […]

The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story

<em>The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story</em>

By Alan Gordon for FILMbutton There was once a time when, if you were in show business, the clearest indicator that you’d “arrived” was a drawing of you by Al Hirschfeld in the Sunday New York Times. Hirschfeld’s drawings were as free, clever, inventive and as full of joy as any great performance, and his […]