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This week on The Richard Crouse Show, Richard welcomes four very special guests, “Midsommar” director Ari Aster and star Jack Reynor, “The Lion King” co-star Billy Eichner and travel guru Rick Steves.

This week on the Richard Crouse Show: With three GRAMMY® nominations and 11 albums to his name, Donny McCaslin is one of music’s most respected saxophonist and band leaders on the scene today. As the bandleader on David Bowie's final album Blackstar he pushed his boundaries even further. McCaslin brings his daring fusion of vibrant electronica and illuminating art-rock across Canada this June.

This week on The Richard Crouse Show, Richard has an in-depth look at “Toy Story 4.” To talk about the creation of Pixar’s first ever Canadian character, the patriotic daredevil Duke Caboom, Richard chats with Greg Mason, Vice-President of Marketing for Walt Disney Canada and Ben Su, one of the Canadian animators who helped create the character. Keanu Reeves also chimes in on why he wanted to play Caboom. Then Tony Hale, who plays the new character Forky in the film, swings by to talk about his character’s existential crisis.

This week on The Richard Crouse Show: A new documentary called “There Are No Fakes” explores what the filmmaker says could be the largest art fraud scam in Canadian history. What begins as a document of a court case and its countersuits turns into something more important, more vital, as it underlines how Indigenous artists, even world-famous ones, have been exploited. Joining me in studio are director Jamie Kastner and one of the film’s subjects, Barenaked Ladies member Kevin Hearn.

This week on “The Richard Crouse Show”: You know Randall Park as Eddie Huang’s father, American restaurateur Louis Huang, in “Fresh Off the Boat,” for which he was nominated for the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. He was Danny Chung on “Veep,” Kim Jong-un in the 2014 film “The Interview” and you’ve seen him on “The Office,” in “Trainwreck” plus the superhero movies “Ant-Man and the Wasp” and “Aquaman” among many others. He co-wrote and co-stars with Ali Wong in his latest Netflix movie “Always Be My Maybe.” In the romantic comedy they play childhood friends who have a falling out and don’t speak for 15 years. They reconnect as adults when Sasha runs into Marcus in San Francisco. Although the old sparks are still there, the couple live in different worlds.

I love this so much. I interviewed director Jamie Kastner and Barenaked Ladies member Kevin Hearn this morning about a fantastic film they have coming out on June 14 called "There Are No Fakes." The whole interview will air in a week or so but I wanted to share this great clip of Kevin talking about working with Lou Reed. Reed was his friend and musical hero. He was also Reed's musical director and keyboardist from 2007 until his passing in 2013.

This week on The Richard Crouse Show author Anthony De Sa. He grew up in Toronto’s Portuguese community and attended The Humber School for Writers and now heads the English department and directs the creative writing program at a high school for the arts. His latest novel is "Children of the Moon," an historical drama set in Tanzania and Portuguese-controlled Mozambique. He lives in Toronto with his wife and three sons.

Richard Crouse interviews Mena Massoud, the Canadian star of the Disney live action remake of "Aladdin." They talk about working with Will Smith, why he switched from neuroscience to theatre school and supporting ethnically diverse Canadian artists.

This week on The Richard Crouse Show: Woman Enough: How a Boy Became a Woman and Changed the World of Sport is the account of a human rights battle with global repercussions for the world of sport; it's a challenge to rethink fixed ideas about gender; and it's the extraordinary story of a boy who was rejected for who he wasn't, and who fought back until she found out who she is. It’s written by my guest today Kristen Worley.

In 1976, Ian McEwan’s first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham award; his first novel, The Cement Garden, was published two years later. He won the Booker prize in 1998 with Amsterdam. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of British Empire) in the 2000 Queen's Millennium Honors List for his services to Literature. His novels Atonement, On Chesil Beach, Enduring Love and The Children Act have been made into films. His new book Machines Like Me is in bookstores now.

This week on The Richard Crouse Show: "In This Dark Chest of Wonders: 40 Years of Stephen King's The Stand," Andy Burns ("Wrapped In Plastic: Twin Peaks," BiffBamPop.com) tells the story behind the story of King's enduring opus and delves deep into its various incarnations — the unfilmed George A. Romero adaptation; the 1994 ABC mini-series; the audiobook; and Marvel Comics' adaptation. Included are exclusive interviews with Stephen King experts Bev Vincent, Robin Furth, Mick Garris, Jamey Sheridan, WG Snuffy Walden, Grover Gardner, Ralph Macchio, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Mike Perkins.

This week on The Richard Crouse Show we welcome one of Canada's favourite performers, Mary Walsh. She became famous on the sketch comedy show CODCO, created CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and is a versatile actress appearing in the Gemini Award-winning Hatching, Matching and Dispatching, which she wrote and starred in. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and has received a Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

NewsTalk 1010 morning host John Moore and Richard discuss the passing of Chewbacca portrayer Peter Mayhew. “Peter Mayhew was a kind and gentle man, possessed of great dignity and noble character. These aspects of his own personality, plus his wit and grace, he brought to Chewbacca. We were partners in film and friends in life for over 30 years and I loved him. He invested his soul in the character and brought great pleasure to the Star Wars audience," Harrison Ford said in a statement.

This week on the Richard Crouse Show director Larry Weinstein stops by to discuss his latest documentary "Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies." A timely look at what activist Astra Taylor calls, “political brainwashing,” the film details the reasons why we are so often sucker punched by the use and abuse of the media.

This week on The Richard Crouse Show: "Black Leopard, Red Wolf" author Marlon James, recently named one of Time's 100 most influential people. From Time magazine: James lives part-time in St. Paul and teaches at Macalester College, where he is writer-in-residence. He was born in Jamaica and is the author of "The Book of Night Women," winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; "A Brief History of Seven Killings," winner of the Man Booker Prize, and "Black Leopard, Red Wolf," already being made into a movie. About that book, Rushdie writes, it is "highly original, its language surging with power, its imagination all-encompassing. Marlon is a writer who must be read."

This week on The Richard Crouse Show: Funny, thought-provoking, and incredibly disturbing, Slow Death by Rubber Duck reveals that just the living of daily life creates a chemical soup inside each of us. The book by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie empowers readers with some simple ideas for protecting themselves and their families, and changing things for the better.

On this week's show lifestyle celebrity and TV pioneer Debbie Travis stops by to chat. She discusses her new book "Design Your Next Chapter: How to realize your dreams and reinvent your life," her legendary television shows "Debbie Travis' Painted House," "Debbie Travis' Facelift," "From The Ground Up" and "All For One" plus how she designed her own success.

On this week’s show: "Through Black Spruce" stars Tanaya Beatty and Brandon Oakes and director Don McKellar.In “Through Black Spruce,” an adaptation of Joseph Boyden’s Giller Prize-winning novel, Beatty stars as Annie Bird, a Cree woman from James Bay who travels to Toronto in search of her twin sister Suzanne, a model who disappeared without a trace.As Annie explores the dark underbelly of the city’s fashion scene at home in Moosonee her Uncle Will (Mohawk actor Oakes) runs afoul of local drug dealers. They think Suzanne’s boyfriend ripped them off and want to talk to her about where he is. When Will won’t tell them he is beaten within an inch of his life.

On this week's show: Director, writer and producer John Lee Hancock. His films include THE FOUNDER, starring Michael Keaton, which tells the story of McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc; and SAVING MR. BANKS, starring Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, about the relationship between Walt Disney and P.L. Travers. He also wrote and directed Warner Bros. and Alcon Entertainment’s celebrated feature THE BLIND SIDE. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won Sandra Bullock the Best Actress award. His new film, THE HIGHWAYMEN follows the untold true story of the legendary detectives who brought down Bonnie and Clyde.

On this week’s show Richard welcomes the stars of “An Audience of Chairs.” Based on a 2005 novel of the same name by Newfoundland & Labrador author Joan Clark, “An Audience of Chairs” stars one of our guests, Carolina Bartczak, as a woman who risks everything in order to reconnect with the daughters she thought she’d lost forever. Also with us is Gord Rand who plays Ben, a lonely trucker who passes through town.

Just days after his 50th birthday in 2013, CTV's film critic Richard Crouse was booked for a routine colonoscopy. He thought it would be little more than a nuisance, but it wound up being a life-saver. Now, six years later, in honour of Colon Cancer Awareness Month, Crouse shares his account of the moment he was diagnosed with cancer and the life-changing effects of that news. Read his story at ctvnews.ca

Just days after his 50th birthday in 2013, CTV's film critic Richard Crouse was booked for a routine colonoscopy. He thought it would be little more than a nuisance, but it wound up being a life-saver. Now, six years later, in honour of Colon Cancer Awareness Month, Crouse shares for the first time his account of the moment he was diagnosed with cancer and the life-changing effects of that news.

On this week's show performers Rebecca Liddiard, Gerry Dee and Lisa Berry discuss MADE | NOUS a movement to encourage all Canadians to recognize and celebrate the creative talent from our country at home and abroad.

Richard joins Moore in the Morning host John Moore on NewsTalk 1010 to discuss the impact of the documentary “Leaving Neverland” and the legacy of the late Luke Perry.

This week on The Richard Crouse Show we welcome Ruth Goodwin, Liz Johnston and Nigel Downer to talk about their new show Entrances and Exits at Sketchfest. Also appearing in the live show are Colin Mochrie (Whose Line), Linda Kash (Best in Show) and Andrew Phung (Kims Convenience).

This week Richard welcomes Ali and Larry Weinstein, co-directors of "The Impossible Swim." In July 2018, Maya Farrell attempted her second crossing of Lake Ontario, following in the footsteps of great Canadian female marathon swimmers Marilyn Bell and Vicki Keith. Featuring interviews with Bell and Keith, ‘The Impossible Swim’ explores the legacy, what it takes physically and mentally to be a marathon athlete, and the new rising regime.

This week on The Richard Crouse Show, Ian Williams. He is the author of Personals, Not Anyone's Anything, You Know Who You Are, a finalist for the ReLit Prize for poetry. He was named one of ten Canadian writers to watch by CBC. His new book is a novel called “Reproduction,” a love story about the way families are formed.

On the Richard Crouse Show this week: While attending college for musical theatre Harris Anderson began to perform stand-up. After moving to Vancouver in 2013 he began to perform regularly at clubs and shows around the city. He has appeared at JFL Northwest multiple times and has been called one of the most exciting up-and-coming comics on the scene. His debut comedy album Above and Beyond is available from Vancouver independent record label 604 Records.

Check out the Richard Crouse Show on NewsTalk 1010 for January 26, 2018! This week Richard speaks with Jennifer Dale. Dale stars in the romantic drama “Into Invisible Light.” It’s a film that asks ‘What would you do if you had a second chance in your life?’”

I'm on a purge, ridding myself of stuff I've carried around for years. Right now I'm digitizing cassettes of old interviews (What was I doing 36 years ago today? According to the label on one of the tapes I was interviewing David Wilcox!), airchecks and whatnot when I came across this little gem from my first ever radio gig at CKBW Radio in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. Click and enjoy the first promo from my first radio show!

Check out the Richard Crouse Show on NewsTalk 1010 for January 26, 2018! This week Richard speaks with Stefan Grambart and Richard Rotter, part of the creative team behind the immerse web series "Damaged." Synopsis: "Damaged" is a digital psychological thriller and interactive experience, about a young man who tries to unravel the mystery of a local gang and their connection to a serial killer called The Wolf.

Check out the Richard Crouse Show on NewsTalk 1010 for January 19, 2018! This week: We all want to be happy. And money can play an important role in helping us get more joy out of life. Money expert Melissa Leong has written a new book called Happy Go Money and she’s here to tell us how to get happier and wealthier in 2019.

NewsTalk 1010 host Jerry Agar really liked "The Upside" starring Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston. Film critic Richard Crouse rated it 2.5 out of 5. Jerry asks, "Are film critics out of touch with the general public?"

Check out the Richard Crouse Show on NewsTalk 1010 for January 12, 2018! This week on the Richard Crouse Show we chat with Dr. Don Weaver, physician, researcher, 'Origami Master' of drug design, multiple patent holder, "micropharma" founder, Tier 1 Neuroscience Canada Research Chair and Director of the Krembil Research Institute. We talk concussions, brain health and the James Cagney movie "Captains of the Clouds."

Do we boycott what looks to be a good movie because originally it was produced by Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Hart is in it? Richard and NewsTalk 1010 host Jerry Agar discuss.

Check out the Richard Crouse Show on NewsTalk 1010 for January 04, 2018! This week on the Richard Crouse Show we chat with Jason Sniderman. He invented his glam-rock musical persona when he was 12 years old. Now at 59, the Toronto musician is ready to share it with the world.

This week on the Richard Crouse Show we chat with Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall author of "Hungover: The Morning After And One Man’s Quest For The Cure." From www.penguinrandomhouse.com: Bishop-Stall spent the better part of a decade studying the complex state of post-drunk hell for “Hungover: The Morning After and One Man’s Quest for the Cure.” He doesn’t just delve into the chemical science of hangovers; he also mixes personal memoir with some of history’s most storied mornings after. Bishop-Stall insists that hangovers should stop being viewed as some sort of cosmic punishment , and instead as a common condition worthy of a cure.

This week on the Richard Crouse Show we chat with Emily Mortimer, star of "Mary Poppins Returns," Patrick Wilson and Yahya Abdul Mateen II of "Aquaman," Travis Knight director of "Bumblebee," comedian Greg Proops, "Eighth Grade" director Bo Burnham and "A Quiet Place" director John Krasinski. It's a jam packed show so grab and egg nog and join us!

This week on the Richard Crouse Show the team behind Montreal’s Joe Beef and Liverpool House restaurants, Frédéric Morin, David McMillan And Meredith Erickson, have a new cookbook, Joe Beef: Surviving the Apocalypse; Another Cookbook of Sorts. They provide survivalist recipes for both outdoorsmen and bunker-dwellers, as well as a dollop of French cuisine and a 16-page gatefold full of photos of preserved edibles to stock in the cellar.

Check out the Richard Crouse Show on NewsTalk 1010 for November 10, 2018! This week Richard welcomes Paul Myers, author of “Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy,” the definitive, authorized story of the legendary sketch comedy troupe.

Check out the Richard Crouse Show on NewsTalk 1010 for December 1, 2018! This week Richard welcomes singer/songwriter Jon Brooks, photographer Rick McGinnis and actor and Humanity and Inclusion spokesperson Anthony Lemke.

Check out the Richard Crouse Show on NewsTalk 1010 for November 10, 2018! This week Richard welcomes Sam Maggs, a best-selling writer of books, comics, and video games. She’s a Senior Writer for Insomniac Games; the author of “The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy,” “Wonder Women,” and “Girl Squads.”

This week Richard welcomes chef and author of "The Last Schmaltz," Anthony Rose. "Whether you know him as Toronto's King of Comfort Food, the Don of Dupont, or the Sultan of Smoked Meat, a conversation about the food and restaurant scene in Toronto isn't complete without mention of Anthony Rose. From his famous Fat Pasha Cauliflower (which may or may not have caused the Great Cauliflower Shortage of 2016) and Rose and Sons Patty Melt to his Pork Belly Fried Rice and Nutella Babka Bread Pudding, Anthony's dishes have consistently made waves in the culinary community. Now, in his first cookbook, Anthony has teamed up with internationally-renowned food and travel writer Chris Johns to share his most famous recipes and stories."

This week Richard welcomes Ryan Boyko, director of "That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations." INFO: Between 1940 and 1920 over 8500 people were wrongfully imprisoned in Canada. A new documentary That Never Happened: Canada's First National Internment Operations reveals the story of Canada's first national internment operations between 1914 - 1920, when over 88,000 people were forced to register and more than 8,500 were wrongfully imprisoned in concentration camps across Canada, not for anything they had done but because of where they came from. In 1954 the public records were destroyed, and in the 1980s a few brave men and women began working to reclaim this chapter in history and ensure future generations would know about it.

In 2011 Barry Avrich made a documentary about indie film mogul Harvey Weinstein, Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project. He has followed that one up with The Reckoning: Hollywood’s Worst Kept Secret, available on VOD this week.

Check out the Richard Crouse Show on NewsTalk 1010! Richard and Phil Savenick talk about the MZTV Museum of Television presentation of “FORGOTTEN GENIUS: The Boy Who Invented Electronic Television”, the new exhibit, curated by Savenick. It is devoted to the story of Philo T. Farnsworth (1906 – 1971), the man who revolutionized television and changed the future of communications on earth.

This week Teddy Wilson stops by The Richard Crouse Show. MIGHTY TRAINS takes viewers into the world of rail travel to witness the inner workings of what it takes to launch and execute a mighty journey on some of the world’s most incredible railway equipment. The six-part series is hosted by Teddy Wilson, an engaging and inquisitive train enthusiast. He goes along for the ride from beginning to end, keeping our viewers riveted to every exciting detail of the train and its journey.

Check out the Richard Crouse Show on NewsTalk 1010 for September 29, 2018! This week Richard welcomes Brock Cahill: Founder of SeaChange, Cinematic Activist; Preservation Tactician, Regina Domingo: Executive Director and Founder of Nakawe Project Conservationist, Filmmaker and Julie Anderesen: Founder, Shark Angels. the panel discusses their friend and colleague the late documentary filmmaker Rob Stewart and his new film “Sharkwater Extinction.”

Check out the Richard Crouse Show on NewsTalk 1010 for September 29, 2018! This week Richard welcomes Dave Bidini. The Toronto-based musician and author is the co-founder and songwriter with the Rheostatics, has written a number of books on music, hockey and life on the road and is the founder of the West End Phoenix, a monthly newspaper for his own West End neighbourhood in Toronto. His new book is Midnight Light, a Personal Journey to the North.

Check out the Richard Crouse Show on NewsTalk 1010 for September 29, 2018! This week Richard welcomes singer/songwriter Catherine MacLellan. Her father Gene MacLellan made history as the first Canadian songwriter to have a song broadcast over one million times in the United States. A new documentary, The Song And The Sorrow, about Gene, his suicide in 1995 and how Catherine became ready to confront the hurtful mystery of her absent parent and embrace his musical legacy.