Seeing 80-year-old Larry Hagman still acting evil on the rebooted version of Dallas reminds me that just because Death’s door is open, doesn’t mean one need enter just yet. Hagman is battling cancer these days, 17 years after the hard-drinking, colorful character underwent a liver transplant to stave off another bout of certain death. His continued existence also reminds me of one of the single weirdest celebrity experiences of my life.
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Guest Columnist Jim Slotek: Avengers Assembled!
Posted in Opinion with tags DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Jim Slotek, Movies, Robert Downey Jr., The Avengers on May 4, 2012 by segarini
Geoff Pevere is on assignment for CBC Radio and will be posting again next Friday. This week, after a fine appearance here last week, Jim Slotek gives us the inside info about why we want what we want….
It is a given this weekend that everyone wants to see The Avengers. It is, as they say, “trending” like a Geiger counter outside the Fukushima nuclear plant.
But it is more relevant to ask WHY everyone wants to see it.
Guest Columnist Jim Slotek: Canuckleheads 2
Posted in Opinion with tags Comedy, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, geoff pevere, Jim Slotek on April 27, 2012 by segarini
Geoff Pevere is on assignment for CBC Radio and will be posting every other week for the next little while. This week, one of Geoff’s peers, Jim Slotek, shares his own views on Canada’s Current Comedy Standings and Comedy in general.
To paraphrase an old axiom about actors, my erstwhile film reviewing colleague Geoff Pevere could rewrite the phone book, and it would make for interesting reading. But I’m sorry to say I’m not down with his last column.
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