Much has been written about soul-less Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff and his ravenous greed. Â However, a new book aims to give us an inside look at Bernie’s entire family and how disgusting, sad, mean and gluttonous they all were, as a unit. Â …
It’s corny (and corn-doggy) but I love the Western Fair. …
The Dilemma is packed with star-power: Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Oscar-winner Jennifer Connolly, Winona Ryder. It was directed by Ron Howard, so one’s expectations kind of rise, even though it didn’t make much of a box office buzz.    …
In Chapters last week I had planned only to buy SuperFreakonomics after it was recommended to me by someone who has also enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw and Outliers.  But they had a buy-3-get-1-free sale on throughout the store and books never go stale, so, I took advantage. …
The guys from the most successful R rated film ever, The Hangover, are back in The Hangover II. And this time they have a monkey! …
OK I’m a little late to the party on this best-seller by Malcom Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers. It’s already in soft-cover and still on the top sales lists. …
If you browse bookstores, check the best-seller lists or read about literary awards you already know that London-based novelist Emma Donoghue has won the Rogers’ Writers Trust Fiction Prize here in Canada and a major literary award in her native Ireland. She missed out on the Man Booker Prize but her latest novel, Room, is the third best-selling book in Canada right now. …
The Devil Wears Prada had a strong influence on me. Author Lauren Weisberger’s snappy, exciting writing inspired me to tackle fiction. The Devil Wears Prada, as you probably know, became a hit movie starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. It’s clever, sharp and its characters crackle with life. …
A lot of women don’t view food the way I do. It has often baffled me when people load several mayo-laden salads onto their plates and don’t even blink. They buy real ice cream and ignore the fat content printed on the side. They walk into a grocery store and believe that it’s possible to choose to eat every single item on every single shelf, except for what they don’t like. For me, food has always fallen into two categories: enemy or treat.  I will look at the ice cream that I really want and buy the low-fat, low-taste stuff instead. That’s how I’ve been for a long, long time. …
Comedian Sarah Silverman’s first book was a letdown. …
First let me say that it’s very cool that this film’s director, Katherine Bigelow, became the first woman ever to win a Best Director Oscar. …
This documentary came out about a year ago. We watched it just recently after a recommendation from a colleague. It’s a very good movie. …
I love the concept of traveling through time and some of the films and TV shows about it are among my favourites: Quantum Leap, Timeline, etc. …
Never get into the water with any type of swimming mammal that has “Killer” built right into its name. …
Avenue Q made a stop at the JLC in London for two shows on Saturday. It won Tony awards and went on to become the 20th longest-running show on Broadway. …
How amusing. Sharon Osbourne must have burned all pre-surgery pictures of herself. …
This debut novel by east coast writer Jessica Grant is delightful. …
Imagine making a feature film out of footage that was never meant to be shown publicly. That’s the monumental task that faced Kenny Ortega, MJ’s collaborator on the This Is It concerts that never were; 50 shows set to kick off in London, England in July, meant to be the final concerts for the almost 50 year old Jackson. …