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Why actor and director Kenneth Branagh was busy in 1991
After his success with William Shakespeare's Henry V, the Irish-born Branagh played two parts in Dead Again -- as did Emma Thompson, his co-star and wife at the time.

When John Candy tried making chocolates for Valentine's Day
It seemed as if John Candy would be a natural on the production line at the Laura Secord factory. Like comedy, though, it turned out to be harder than it looked.

7 retro pop culture references in the CBC comedy Son of a Critch
The touchstones of a 1980s adolescence are brought to life in a CBC series based on a memoir by Newfoundland comic Mark Critch.

When Christina Ricci was actually a teenager

What Jeff Goldblum found 'rewarding' aside from acting

When CDs made vinyl obsolete ... and how it came back

When CBC began inviting hopeful entrepreneurs into the Dragons' Den

When the 'unbashedly Albertan' TV drama Heartland debuted on CBC

When Tomson Highway found success with The Rez Sisters

The costume that Meryl Streep said was "evil, evil"

Why Sigourney Weaver gave herself a new name

Why the Paw Patrol story started with sawdust

How Woodstock '94 compared with the original 1969 music festival

Why director Mary Harron made a movie about the woman who shot Andy Warhol

How Canadians got to know author Miriam Toews in 1997

You know Jayne Eastwood's face, if not her name

How Trivial Pursuit launched the board game rush of the 1980s

When Calgary musicians Tegan & Sara were still in high school

Inside the SCTV writers' room with Eugene Levy

How Mike Myers created metalhead Wayne Campbell

Leonard Cohen's thoughts on his song Hallelujah

Christopher Plummer, Sound of Music star and oldest actor to win an Oscar, dead at 91

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The romantic hit song that became Dan Hill's 'albatross'
