The stars have aligned in Haiti, where Artists for Peace and Justice — the celebrity-studded non-profit founded by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis — helps make magic happen Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis sits comfortably in the corner of a bustling, star-studded party at the NKPR agency headquarters in Toronto’s west end. The shindig is welcoming …
For the past decade, George Stroumboulopoulos has been the poster boy of the CBC with his primetime talk show George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight. This fall he started a new journey, as he took over hosting duties of the preeminent stick-and-puck program in the country, Hockey Night in Canada (HNIC). We sat down with Stroumboulopoulos in his …
A luminary on both the Hollywood and humanitarian scenes, Angelina Jolie spent her Friday morning at Buckingham Palace where Queen Elizabeth II awarded her with an honorary Damehood, the female equivalent of an honorary Knighthood. While the actor was named an honorary Dame back in June in the Birthday Honours List, she travelled to the …
Like most great British success stories, Terry O’Neill’s was born from being at the right place at the right time. It was sometime in 1967, in the glitz of Saint-Tropez, and Audrey Hepburn, ever eminent since her Roman Holiday fame, is on the set of the marital dramedy Two for the Road, her penultimate film …
A sure way to make Tessanne Chin laugh is to “sing” one of her favourite karaoke songs: “Black Velvet.” “Yes! You know it!” she exclaims as I butcher the chorus of the Billboard No. 1 hit that netted Canadian Alannah Myles a Grammy back in 1990. She’s chuckling from her seat in a room at …
The word “charismatic” doesn’t even begin to describe the aura that surrounds George Clooney. He’s the epitome of the debonair playboy. The natural-born movie star. The no-strings celebrity millionaire, who divides his life between his work and his idyllic retreat in Italy. The Kentucky-born gentleman, from relatively modest beginnings, epitomizes la dolce vita as though …
It’s no wonder that the Hiltons fascinate the world. A historic heritage, astronomic wealth, celebrity status and a talent for empire building make it a life worth envying. And at the heart of it all is the family matriarch Kathy Hilton, whose grounded approach to life allows her to appreciate her family’s luxurious lifestyle while …
When Katherine LaNasa has to contemplate a difficult scene (yes, actors do and can experience moments of self-doubt), she simply imagines herself to be somebody else — a grand old lion of the silver screen, no less. “When I’ve had to do things where I’ve felt intimidated, I remember to tell myself that ‘this is …
At the 2009 Festival of the Arts in Laguna Beach, Calif., a portrait composed of painted screws hung on a wall. It had taken Andrew Myers six months and about 10,000 screws to finish this piece, and the artist stood by as observers paused to let their eyes take in the intricacy of the finished …
Al Pacino isn’t a movie star. He’s an actor. And when you put a Lee Strasberg student on a stage before a star-struck crowd, he’s always on. Bringing his intimate Pacino One Night Only show to Toronto’s Massey Hall, the legendary performer took to the stage with a raw, unscripted theatricality that — to most of …
