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It would be a late afternoon on a lazy November Sunday in ’92 when the phone rang. Working at home, I had come to expect regular calls from the office. Answering them was part of the job. This time the decidedly excited voice on the other end of the line was my old boss, now … Read more
Matthew Perry describes battle he fought with addiction during ‘Friends’ l GMAGood Morning America Matthew Perry recalls horrors of dealing with colostomy bag after colon exploded in 2018: ‘I woke up covered in my own s*** … 50 to 60 times’Yahoo Entertainment Matthew Perry opens up during first television interview since memoir releaseHELLO! Matthew Perry … Read more
Ralph Macchio – “Waxing On” and “Cobra Kai” | The Daily Show The Daily Show with Trevor Noah ‘Cobra Kai’ Star Ralph Macchio Didn’t Hold Back About Real-Life Feud With William Zabka Yahoo Life Cobra Kai’s Ralph Macchio Talks New Karate Kid ‘Waxing On’ Book & More w Rich Eisen | Full Interview The Rich Eisen Show Yes, … Read more
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In the early ’90s when I was 14, I stayed up late at a pool party in Toronto, chased a bottle of Schnapps with a tab of acid and ended up in a three-way with my close friend and a guy I’ll call Scott. I promise you it was a lot less fun than it … Read more
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iStock, unsplash/The Globe and Mail Spring has sprung – or is about to – and reliably with it, forsythia, narcissi and a shiny new crop of books, a small sampling of which are described below. In fiction, there are novels by big-name Canadians (Emily St John Mandel, Shyam Selvadurai, Guy Gavriel Kay) and international writers … Read more
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Illustration by HEIDI BERTON The dead of winter tends to be dead, or at least slow, for publishing as well. But as the following list of fiction and non-fiction titles – all of which come out in January and February – show, there are always a handful of gems to brighten these short, frigid days. … Read more
There is no immortality for newspaper reporters. One of them, Ben Hecht, addressed this matter in a short poem written long ago: “We know each other’s daydreams / And the hopes that come to grief / For we write each other’s obits / And they’re Godalmighty brief.” There is no immortality for newspaper reporters, but … Read more