In 1966, Bruce Lee threw himself (literally) into the role of Kato, the Green Hornet's sidekick, when he costarred in a TV series based on the Silver Age comic book. Alas, the show was canceled after one season. A prodigal Lee skulked back to Hong Kong to shoot a low-budget film, certain that his ...
If the Democrats lose in November, the party's supporters will likely initiate another one of their semi-regular rebranding exercises. "Liberal" became a curse word during the Reagan years, so they started calling themselves "progressive" and insisted the rest of us use that word, ...
Last week, Canadian cops arrested more than 30 people operating a massive "international crime ring." A police spokesman carefully described those charged as “Roma,” but the Toronto Sun tabloid wasn"t shy about employing what will no doubt soon come to be known as "the ...
I was certain I still had my copy of the book on the same shelf as my long-untouched copies of The Second Sex, The Female Eunuch, and The Feminine Mystique. After learning of the death last week of Shulamith Firestone, author of 1970's The Dialectic of Sex, I roused myself to search for the book, ...
Canadian history is crushingly dull. Imagine anybody screaming, “Peace, order and good government!” while storming the barricades"or, for that matter, there being any barricades to storm. Canada’s leaders are so boring, no one’s ever tried to shoot one. Our flag is a ...
American media coverage of the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting often included primers on Sikhism, sidebars that would be considered superfluous up here in Canada. Though estimates vary wildly, both countries appear to have similar numbers of Sikhs (Canada’s half-million v. 750,000 in the US), ...
Ever since Timothy McVeigh's 2001 execution, the American left has waited in joyful hope for his second coming. More than a decade on, they desperately need another great white "Christian" dope whose name they can chirp defensively whenever anyone brings up the troubling tendency of ...
Who needs a Narnia-style wardrobe when you can drop into an alternate universe just by visiting the drugstore? I simply stand in the hair-care aisle, facing an escarpment of shampoos, conditioners, gels, and sprays with brand names I"ve known since girlhood: Pantene, Garnier, Head & ...
Voula Papachristou isn"t all Greek to me. What I mean is, the triple-jumper's blonde locks look downright Swedish. My experience with Hellenic femininity begins and ends with Toronto's Danforth Avenue, where the wide-bodied waitresses toiling beneath Greektown's blue-and-white café ...
Every time we endure another comedian-related "controversy""two weeks ago it was The Daniel Tosh Rape Joke Experience"other comedians quickly rise to express their outrage: "Isn"t a comedy club supposed to be the last place that's still safe for free speech?" Then yet ...
