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May 20, 2026
Howard Keel was 85. He romanced his way through a series of glittery MGM musicals such as "Kiss Me Kate" and "Annie Get Your Gun" and later revived his career with television's "Dallas".
Stealing Harvard: 5.5 out of 10. This is not a very good movie, but in the right mood at the right time it became mildly enjoyable. Perhaps it's because I like Tom Green and Jason Lee, or maybe it's because I knew it was directed by Kid in the
I just finished watching the Raptors game. I watched the whole thing, in fact, I've seen all three games this season except for a bit of Friday's game when I was watching the Argos. I'm extremely impressed thus far. All three games have been extremely entertaining victories for the Raps.
The ampersand drives me crazy. The ampersand is the punctuation mark "&" we use to represent the word and. It's not so much the character itself that irks me but how it effects the validation of my XHTML code. In a valid XHTML document, you have to escape the ampersand,
The Maple Leafs have won three games in a row to pull back to .500 on the season. Clarke Wilm scored his first two goals of the season, including the game-winner, as the St. John's Maple Leafs edged the Edmonton Road Runners 4-3 in American Hockey League play Saturday night.
"What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I
There's only about six weeks to go before we in the SLS commitee finalize the tracklist for SLS12. For those of you who need an SLS refresher, visit the guide. Here are the tunes that will get serious consideration. I'm listing them in order of their likeliness to make the
HBO has confirmed that the upcoming fifth season of "Six Feet Under" will be the last. Alan Ball recently informed HBO executives that he felt the show will have run its creative course by the end of the upcoming 12-episode season. "Six Feet Under" is probably my favourite drama on
David Ling's power-play goal 51 seconds into overtime gave the St. John's Maple Leafs an improbable 4-3 AHL victory over the Edmonton Road Runners in front of a Mile One Stadium crowd of 4,714 Friday night. Harold Druken, Jason MacDonald and Nathan Perrott also scored for the Maple Leafs.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?"
Who needs the Leafs on a night like tonight in the big smoke? It's been a great night for sports fans in this city. Some random sports notes at this hour... The Argos are crushing the Tiger-Cats in the East semifinal. It's now 24 to zip in our favour and
Anyone who isn't arriving at this site for the first time has seen references to SLS sprinkled throughout these pages. I occasionally receive emails asking me what it is and why I nominate songs for SLS consideration. Why is one song SLS-worthy and another not? What does SLS stand for?
I'm a big fan of the CFL's second season. Come playoff time, I jump on the Argonaut bandwagon and begin to dream in grey. The Argos finished second in the East this season and host the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the East semifinal tonight at Skydome. We've owned the Ti-Cats this
It will be nice to have my reliable friends from Springfield back. Sunday is the annual "Treehouse of Horror" episode as The Simpsons begin their sixteenth season. I've been a devoted fan for all sixteen, more than half of my time on God's green Earth. Entertainment Weekly has a good
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Teaser Trailer - It's a complete coincidence that I was just writing about Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. This link is for the latest teaser trailer for the final Star Wars movie. The last couple of releases
Jet's latest single is "Look What You've Done", a tender little Beatle-esque ballad that's liable to become a pretty big hit for this Australian band. The opening bars, however, sound identical to the beginning of Motley Crue's "Home Sweet Home". I dare you to compare the two. Now that I
I was doing a little Googling tonight when I learned a Mike Boone worked as a draftsman on the set of "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back". I loved that movie as a kid. It was a worthy follow-up to a flick every kid on the planet
Slapshot 2K4 - It just hit me that players have now been locked out for 50 days and the NHL All-Star game was just cancelled. This really, really sucks. As exciting as the Raptor game was last night, I miss my hockey. All I have is this addictive little game
Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following submission earlier today. To the Canadian people at large. I consider today the thoughts of the recent election of our Americans neighbours and only now can I come to grips and make comment on
At one point this afternoon, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was reported dead. Then, moments later, it was reported that he was still alive, but gravely ill. From all accounts, it appears as if he has slipped into a coma from which he will never emerge. I'm a big fan of
Back in the mid-90s, I picked up Everything I Long For, the first official LP from a Toronto artist named Hayden. Revisiting this disc recently has reminded me of how awesome it is. Every track is great, particularly the lead tune "Bad As They Seem". I've always felt as if
Anyone is welcome to submit a Guest Blog Entry to torontomike.com. I received the following submission earlier today. I happened to hear Sum 41's new single "We're All to Blame" this morning on the way to work. It's not the first time I've heard it, but for some reason
Sergei Zholtok was 31. He played 588 NHL games with Boston, Ottawa, Montreal, Edmonton, Minnesota and Nashville scoring 111 goals and adding 147 assists.
I am so sick of chocolate. We bought more treats than we shelled out for Halloween and James went around and added to the stockpile, so everywhere I turn there's another piece of chocolate. I've been munching away on these sweet treats every evening since. I don't want to see
