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MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2008 Best Of Holder Tonight |
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12:05am | Everything you wanted to know about Brian Wilde. The sportscaster from the local CTV channel is in to talk about his career on the air covering sports. | |
12:35am | Everything you wanted to know about Mike Le Couteur, the Global Quebec reporter and weekend news anchor, as he talks about his career and the news gathering business. | |
1:05am | What's it like to grow up Amish? We put that question to Anna Dee Olson, author of Growing Up Amish, who shares
her experiences of growing up in that world.
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1:35am | Actress Carolyn Hennesy, who stars as Diane Miller on ABC's hit daytime drama series, General Hospital,
has a hit book on her hands. It's called Pandora Gets Jealous.
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2:05am | What do you get the person who has everything? How about a portrait of them painted as a zombie. Artist Rob Sacchetto can turn even the prettiest prom queen into a creepy bloody zombie. | |
2:35am | Bob Mitchell is the author of The Class Project: How to Kill a Mother: The True Story of Canada's Infamous Bathtub Girls,
a book that investigates the incredible murder of a mother by her two teenaged daughters.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2008 Best Of Holder Tonight |
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12:05am | Actress Patricia McKenzie is a very busy lady. She is one of the stars of the series Charlie Jade, and she's also the star of a new short film called The Telephone Eulogies. | |
12:35am | We get a primer about Canada and the oil industry with Gary May, author of Hard Oiler!: The Story of Early Canadians' Quest for Oil at Home and Abroad.
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1:05am | Suzanne Whang is a very busy lady. She's a standup comic, she's an actress and she's the host of HGTV's House Hunters. As busy as she is, she has found the time to talk to us about her career. | |
1:35am | Leon Logothetis is the host and star of Amazing Adventures of A Nobody on OLN. It's a show that follows Logothetis' every step of the way chronicling his U.S. odyssey as he eats, sleeps and travels on the goodwill of the American people. | |
2:05am | Garry Berman is the author of We're Going to See the Beatles! An Oral History of Beatlemania as Told by the Fans Who Were There.
It's the story of Beatlemania as experienced by their most devoted fans.
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2:35am | Sandra Grabman and actor Wright King are the authors of No Retakes: Actors & Actresses Remember the Era of Live Television,
a look back at the glory days of acting in television when you had just one shot to get it right.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2008 Best Of Holder Tonight |
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12:05am | Dinu Bumbaru, the policy director of Heritage Montreal, is back with us to talk about some of the changes planned within the city such as the major project for Griffin Town and the site of the old Ben's Restaurant. | |
12:35am | Mitch Joel is president of Twist Image, a digital marketing agency based in Montreal. He's on to talk about blogs and their possible role in your company. | |
1:05am | Don Most, best known for his role as Ralph on Happy Days, is on to talk about his latest work, a film he directed called Moola. | |
1:35am | Watching all the procedural forensic shows on television does not prepare you for a career in forensics. We talk to Dr. Eric Hickey, a forensic psychologist at the Center for Forensic Studies at Alliant University in San Diego about the real world of forensic science. | |
2:05am | Piracy is alive and well on the high seas, according to expert and adventurer Michael Rawlins. In the newly released documentary film Porampo: Pirates of the Malacca Straits, Rawlins and his adventurer crew work their way deep inside Southeast Asian piracy. | |
2:35am | Veteran character actor and screenwriter Allan Rich shares his career and the acting profession with us.
He's also the author of A Leap from the Method: An Organic Approach to Acting.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2008 Best Of Holder Tonight |
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12:05am | Jamie Orchard from Global Quebec, talks about her career and the nightly newscast she anchors. | |
12:35am | Mason Williams, best known for the song Classical Gas and his work on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, is on to talk about his life and career. | |
1:05am | Vancouver emergency room physician, Dr. Dan Kalla, is back on to talk about his latest novel, Cold Plague.
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We talk bees with Steve Buchmann, an adjunct professor of Entomology at the University of Arizona and the author of The Bee Tree and also Letters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey and Humankind.
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2:05am | Hollywood screenwriter Dennis Palumbo (My Favorite Year) threw in the pen to become a licensed psychotherapist, working with the industry's top writers,
directors and producers. Now he's picked that pen up again, this time writing dark, yet humorous, short mysteries.
The book is called From Crime to Crime: Mind-boggling Tales of Mystery and Murder.
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2:35am | Packing a suitcase is an art. Doug Dyment knows when to hold 'em and how to fold 'em when it comes to packing for a trip, and he teaches his techniques on his website onebag.com. |
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 2008 Best Of Holder Tonight |
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12:05am | Misha Glenny is the author of McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld.
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12:35am | Neuroscientist Simon LeVay is the author of the current New York Times bestseller, When Science Goes Wrong: Twelve Tales from the Dark Side of Discovery.
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1:05am | Brian Dietzen is one of the stars of the hit CBS series, NCIS. He plays the role of Jimmy Palmer, an Assistant Medical Examiner. | |
1:35am | Jon Provost, best known as Timmy on Lassie, remembers the classic show and the role he played on it.
He is also the author of Timmy's In The Well: The Jon Provost Story.
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2:05am | We talk monster making with Todd Tucker, co-owner of Drac Studios, a special effects makeup and creature shop behind hundreds of high-profile Hollywood projects including Academy Award winning work for Mrs. Doubtfire and Bram Stoker's Dracula. | |
2:35am | Actor Zach Ward, best known for playing the bully Scut Farkus in A Christmas Story is starring in the controversial film Postal, about a down-and-out dude who uncovers a terrorist plot involving Osama bin Laden and his pal, George W. Bush. |
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