John Hughes passed away yes­ter­day and the news made me sad and a lit­tle melancholic. You see, I was in my teens in the 80s and watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles in the movie the­atres when they were re­leased (when ad­mis­sion was only $4!). Hughes’ char­ac­ters be­came very per­sonal to me; some­how, this 30-something adult male […]

The re­cent spate of celebrity deaths have taken some amaz­ing and tal­ented peo­ple away from us.
Ed McMahon, side­kick and Publisher’s Clearing House spokesman, was part of my parent’s Tonight Show, which I shunned be­cause my 14-year-old, punk-ass self, completely con­sumed with the sar­donic hu­mour of SCTV and Saturday Night Live, thought it was passé. (It was only when I bought a DVD […]

…be­cause I am em­bar­rassed. I have the worst case of sun­burn in re­cent mem­ory.
When I was young, before there was talk of de­plet­ing ozone lay­ers and melanoma, my 14-year-old self would slather on baby oil and bake in the sun. When I was 30 years old, I would visit a tan­ning sa­lon to ac­quire a ‘base tan’ be­fore spend­ing days bak­ing un­der the Mediterranean sun. Born with a more […]

I’ve al­ways been more of a movie buff so this should be a list of the best movies I’ve seen in 2008. However, with the ex­or­bi­tant prices of the­atre tick­ets and my mis­an­thropic dis­like of the com­mon theatre-going pub­lic, I ei­ther wait for my movies to come on The Movie Network or I see them at the reper­a­tory cinemas. […]

Bettie Page, fifties pinup queen and sex­ual pi­o­neer, passed away yes­ter­day at the age of 85. She wasn’t as hugely pop­u­lar as Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield or other sex sym­bols of her gen­er­a­tion, but still man­aged to de­velop a huge cult-like fol­low­ing, de­spite giv­ing up the busi­ness in 1959 to de­vote her­self to God. 
I’ve been a fan of Bettie […]