Forget the Italian election: Mr. Nutterbutter was back, with another (well, the same) message for Robert Murray!

I miss the days when The First Lady was a classy American rather than a foreign whore.

I was very shy as a kid, but in Grade 10 had an opportunity to be involved in theatre at my junior high, and absolutely loved it. At senior high I was in drama class and the theatre club, and was able to play Miss Spinney (the role Ethel Barrymore played in the film version) in ‘Portrait of Jennie’. That production…

Alex: Your accident reminds me of the scene in the brilliant black comedy ‘Smile’ about the ‘Young American Miss’ beauty pageant. The mostly talentless teen competitors are being taught a dance routine by the cynical, just there for a buck choreographer (played by Michael Kidd), who at almost the last minute is told…

We allow people to own guns in Canada, but there’s a stringent, highly regulated process that you have to go through which is mandated by the federal government, administered by the RCMP, and consistent through all 10 provinces and three territories.

Whenever I despair of humankind - which is often - I watch this to remind myself there is decency and goodness in this world.

This isn’t an excuse, just a possible explanation: that the reporter had someone higher up the food chain telling her to do this.

I thought Sliney (and the others who played themselves) did a fantastic job in United 93, as evidenced by the fact that apart from sliney, I don’t know who was playing themselves as opposed to a character, which means they did a good job. Sliney was particularly good; I doubt that many people who didn’t know who he…

If you haven’t already seen it, you need to watch the 1977 Canadian film ‘Rituals’ starring Hal Holbrook, about five doctor friends whose camping/fishing trip in the Canadian wilderness turns nightmare. It was called ‘Deliverance’-lite when it was released, but over the last 40 years its reputation has grown steadily,…

I bet all of them would tell you earnestly that they would have voted for Obama again if they could.

Hope you’re having fun! We had a blast doing ‘Arsenic’, and the actor playing Teddy seemed to be having the most fun of all. Hearing him say of Mr. Witherspoon ‘Is he trying to move into the White House before I’ve moved out?’ ‘Who, Teddy?’ ‘Taft!’ was always my cue to be in place for my final entrance, and the lines…

I loved history even when I was in school, and teachers seemed to try to make it as boring as possible. I’ve kept up that love of history, and for the last five years have been writing a bi-weekly history piece for our local newspaper, about the history of the Interior of British Columbia, where I live. So many…

I love those first two pictures of Alice, especially the second, sidebar, one. I’ve seen lots of pictures of society misses from a century or more ago, and most of them seem to be striving for ‘wouldn’t dream of going against social mores’ in their facial expressions. Alice is more ‘I have no f**ks to give.’

I love Atkinson as Blackadder (Goes Forth is my favourite series), but in close second is his performance in the movie The Tall Guy.

As the mom of a millennial, I agree wholeheartedly that people should stop grouping them all together. My son was born in 1997; when he was 18 he got a highly demanding job with the RCMP (the application process was six months and most people don’t make it). Three weeks after his 19th birthday he moved 460km north of…

I know that The Ritual is based on a novel by Adam Nevill; but the premise seems awfully close to the 1977 Canadian film Rituals (original screenplay by Ian Sutherland), starring Hal Holbrook, about a group of big-city doctors who go off into the Canadian woods on their annual hiking/fishing trip and are terrorised by…

Gosford Park was brilliant (and if ever there was an argument for a ‘Best Cast’ Oscar Award, that movie is it). I watched Downton, more because it was a nice Sunday evening antidote to the gore of The Walking Dead (apart from that one episode where Lord Grantham went all John Hurt in Alien), and I’d grown to like the…

At least I’ve never had anyone ask why I’m not covering Justin Trudeau. I have dipped my toe into the water of provincial politics, but only when it’s something that directly affects the region the paper covers.

He was great in ‘Runaway Train’; more than held his own with Jon Voight.

You’d be surprised what people expect ANYONE connected to the news media should be doing. Google ‘Elephant Hill wildfire 2017' and read about the devastating wildfire in the Southern Interior of British Columbia that spread from 2.1 hectares on July 6 to 192,000 hectares by the time it was 100 per cent contained 83…