HoundsTV photos: Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr (and a few friends) share the Radio City stage for David Lynch Change Begins Within Benefit Concert
all photos: Richard Budman / HoundsTV
NEW YORK (HoundsTV) Apr 4. 2009 - When filmmaker David Lynch wanted to throw a benefit concert to support his foundation to encourage children to do transcendental meditation - he got a little help from some friends - including Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.
Starr and McCartney appeared on stage together for the first time in seven years before a delighted crowd of 6,000 at Radio City Music Hall.
Before McCartney took the stage - Ringo kicked off the second half of the show with Yellow Submarine, with backing vocal help from Sheryl Crow.
But the crowd was ...
Paul McCartney exits Radio City Music Hall after soundcheck for Lynch Meditation Beatles reunion and signs autographs for fans (but not professional hounds)
NEW YORK (HoundsTV) April 4, 2009 - It's been a Beatles fan frenzy in New York this weekend as the reunion of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr for the David Lynch Foundation benefit concert has brought hundreds of media, fans, and autograph collectors to Radio City Music Hall.
Hours before the Saturday night show, McCartney exited the stage door at Radio City after soundcheck and was greeted by hundreds of people who lined the streets to catch a glimpse of the Beatles legend.
While McCartney had been very good about signing most of the week in New York while preparing for ...
Hot IndyCar driver Danica Patrick in Toronto for the Autoshow - thinks Angelina Jolie could play her in the movie
TORONTO (HoundsTV) - IndyCar driver Danica Patrick was in Toronto at the International Autoshow to promote the Honda Indy race that returns to the streets of Toronto this July.
During 2008, Patrick became the first woman to win an Indy car race. Since Danica is hot and a history maker - we figure the movie of her life can't be far behind.
HoundsTV asked Danica when it comes time for Hollywood to make the movie of her life - Who could play her? Clearly indicating this particular question has been on Patrick’s mind before - Danica felt “Angelina Jolie ...
Hookers on Yorkville Ave. in Toronto? Its just Atom Egoyan filming his new movie Chloe with Amanda Seyfried
Filming continued on Canadian director Atom Egoyan's new feature, CHLOE, shooting this week on a very popular downtown Toronto street. The film stars Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and Amanda Seyfried (very hot since the big-screen success of Mamma Mia.)
While the exact storyline on writer/director Egoyan's script remains under wraps - it is known that Seyfield is playing the part of a hooker. Judging by the wardrobe that Amanda was showing off during filming - that character assignment seems to probably make sense.
photographer's note: Yes, the set guys and producers hate the paparazzi shooting this stuff and do try ...
Best and Worst music acts for autographs and meeting fans in Canada during 2008
TORONTO (HoundsTV) - Since it seems to be the time of the year when best and worst lists are everywhere. HoundsTV.com officially presents it's annual (ok, it's actually our first best and worst list, but annual has got to start somewhere.)
So who were the BEST and WORST music acts for greeting fans and signing autographs to come through Toronto, Canada during 2008.
George W. Bush is the greatest President ever! (at signing autographs, that is.) - Obama could end up being the worst for the hounds
Hounding The Presidents for autographs
With U.S. presidential fever in high gear HoundsTV.com decided to investigate the autograph signing practices of the last few U.S. Presidents - and the future one.
June 25th, 2009 / 2 Comments » / by Richard
The pop culture and entertainment worlds are reeling today from the news that two of the previous generations icons - Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson both died on the same day.
We had expected Fawcett to sadly pass soon with news of her grave cancer situation being public for months.
But the Michael Jackson news came as a shock. Lennon and Princess Di level shock. This will be one were talking about for days.
And where did the news first break of the Jackson cardiac arrest and immediate death?
Online at TMZ and Twitter. Not sure how TMZ manages to scoop every major news organization on a story this big. But they do. Partly balls. Partly very good sources.
When your calling news of an icons death that early - you have to be right. Much of a news organizations reputation depends on it. If TMZ would have gotten it wrong - the major media companies would have been the first to call them on it.
It would still be a couple hours later when AP, followed by CNN decided to announce that Jackson had passed.
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Posted in: Autographs, Media, Pretty Ladies, RIP
Tags: farrah, king, pop, poster, tmz, tweets, twitter
June 10th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Richard
TORONTO (HoundsTV) June 10, 2009 - This is the type of shot you”ll probably see run in most Canadian dailies tomorrow - Olympic champion Usain Bolt strikes his famous pose.
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Posted in: News, Sports, Toronto
Tags: 100, awards, bolt, canada, festival, pose, race, relay
June 10th, 2009 / 3 Comments » / by Richard
TORONTO (HoundsTV) June 9, 2009 - Olympic champion and World’s Fastest Man Usain Bolt arrived in Toronto for the Festival of Excellence track meet at Varsity Stadium on Thursday, where he’ll compete in the men’s 100 metres.
Bolt’s first stop in Toronto was the Festival kick-off party at the top of the city - Toronto’s CN Tower.
Bolt’s visit to the city is highly anticipated by fans, media and especially the autograph hounds who have been eyeing those beautiful Olympic gold medal winning shots knowing what a great and valuable addition an autograph would be.
And how was Bolt upon airport arrival and attending the CN Tower party?
Usain did sign a few autographs here and there. It seemed very tough for a collector to have gotten more then one signature from him.
Bolt’s still got a few days left in Toronto till the big race day on Thursday where you can see arguably one of the most famous athletes in the world today do his thing.
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Posted in: Autographs, News, Sports, The Bodyguard, Toronto
Tags: cn, festival, race, sprinter, tours, tower
May 26th, 2009 / 4 Comments » / by Richard
TORONTO (HoundsTV) May 26, 2009 - In Toronto for the first of two highly-anticipated concerts with Billy Joel - Elton John found time to stop by STARZ Animation studios and greet Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty.
The occasion was to announce to the large gathering of entertainment news media (each of which was announcing they had they own “exclusive” interview with Sir Elton) that Starz Animation had managed to squeeze a cool 23 million bucks out of McGuinty’s Ontario government and one of the first animation projects Starz will tackle is a toon from Elton John and David Furnish’s Rocket Pictures’ - Gnomeo & Juliet.
Good thing Premier McGuinty is an Elton fan and did mention to HoundsTV cameras on his way into the event his favorite Elton song is “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” (though, he politely declined to sing a few bars.)
While Elton and the Starz crew were certainly in the taking mood today - unfortunately, they didn’t seem much in the giving mood - with media accreditation for HoundsTV to the press conference or with Elton giving autographs to the few collectors that were waiting outside the event.
On arrival, Elton took one look at the small group of autograph collectors assembled and mumbled, “Nope! Your ebay guys.” - and quickly made his way into the Richmond St. Toronto studio.
UPDATE: It seems Sir Elton did have a little “give” in him today - and signed at least one autograph.
Posted in: Autographs, News, Rock Gods, Toronto
Tags: animation, furnish, gnomeo, handout, juliet, man, rocket, starz
May 23rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by Richard
TORONTO (HoundsTV) May 22, 2009 - CNN interviewing legend Larry King was in Toronto for the day making the rounds and pimpin’ his autobiographical book - My Remarkable Journey.
There was a surprisingly large group of autograph seekers out after King today - looking to get their books and photographs signed by the CNN legend - whose notable accomplishments include interviewing more then 40,000 media personalities and seven marriages. King is showing no signs of slowing down as he is signed to CNN through 2011 at an annual salary of almost 10 million dollars.
When HoundsTV asked one professional autograph collector, “What’s the big deal about Larry King’s autograph?” (after all, he isn’t an accomplished actor or musician - the usual targets for mass autograph collecting crowds - the collector simply replied, “He’s old and will probably die soon.”
Posted in: Autographs, Book Signings, Media, News, Toronto
Tags: book, cbc, cnn, indigo, interview, journey, live, signing, with
May 12th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Richard
Bruce Springsteen and his E Street band recently hit Toronto, Canada on their current tour and if anybody should wonder the lengths a fan would have to go to get Springsteen’s autograph please read on…
We all know how touchy Springsteen gets with the sale of his concert tickets - you can only imagine how much he hates the thought of his signature being sold. Because of that, Springsteen does not often sign autographs, rarely in large crowds, usually personalizes, and when he chooses to sign - he tries to make damn sure he is not signing for collectors that might go on to sell his autograph.
Since the BOSS was arriving just hours before the Toronto Air Canada Centre concert - and was heading straight back to the airfield immediately following the show - the opportunities for fan interaction on this trip was going to be next to nil. The only real shot would be at a remote private airfield just north of Toronto where Bruce and the band was set to land just a few hours before the ACC show.
So our dedicated autograph collector and a few friends, aware of the place where Springsteen was set to arrive, headed out to the airport in the hopes of getting a few albums signed.
The smallish plane arrives and Springsteen is first off and sits in the front passenger seat of a car as the rest of his seven vehicle entourage get ready to make the thirty minute drive to the Air Canada Centre. As Springsteen waits in the idling car, it is then our small group of collectors approach - people in the same car as Bruce are quick to shout, “no autographs. no signing.”
But Springsteen rolls the car window down and mutters a “oh, you found me” and motions to the small gaggle of people to come over to his window where he preceded to sign a strict one autograph per person.
One female fan, clutching tightly her just signed Darkness on the Edge of Town album, couldn’t also resist asking Springsteen if he had any extra tickets to tonight’s sold-out show - Springsteen, not missing a beat replied, “what do you think, I carry them in my back pocket?”
The window rolled back up and the Springsteen-led line of cars and vans headed to the Toronto venue for the show.
Posted in: Autographs, Bad Signer, Rock Gods, The Fans, Toronto
Tags: acc, airport, boss, darkness, edge, town
April 24th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Richard
TORONTO (HoundsTV) Apr 23, 2009 - While author and funnyman Lewis Black is in Toronto for a three night comedy set at Winter Garden Theatre as part of his Canada wide comedy tour - Black found some time to stop by Indigo Books, Eaton Center to talk up and sign his new religious satire - Me of Little Faith.
Black wondered if his signed book is worth anything on ebay - then looked around for something more valuable to sign - does it perhaps make this list?
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Posted in: Autographs, Book Signings, Funny Guys, Media, New York, Toronto
Tags: black, comedy, daily, garden, show, stand, theatre, up, winter
April 21st, 2009 / No Comments » / by Richard
TORONTO (HoundsTV) Apr 21, 2009 - Academy Award winning actress and environmentalist Diane Keaton arrived in Toronto from Montreal the green way - by scenic Via rail train. Keaton is speaking at Roy Thomson Hall as part of Unique Lives & Experiences.
Keaton is a noted design enthusiast and photographer and spent time touring the inside and out of Toronto’s historic Union train station taking note of the building architecture and snapping photos on her own camera.
Just before leaving Union Station, she was asked by autograph collectors (also aware that Keaton was set to arrive by train) to sign their Annie Hall posters - Keaton willingly obliged.
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Posted in: Autographs, Best Signers, Movies, New York, Toronto
Tags: allen, annie, green, hall, station, train, union, woody
April 18th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Richard
TORONTO (HoundsTV) Apr 17, 2009 - As is his usual routine, Jerry Seinfeld arrived in Toronto just a few hours before the first night of his two-night, four-show stint. Jerry likes to go straight from the airport to the venue - in this case Toronto’s legendary Massey Hall.
Seinfeld is known for making quick exits as soon as his set ends, and for fans that managed to get to the stage door of Massey - Jerry spent a few well-guarded minutes greeting people and signing autographs.
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Posted in: Autographs, Best Signers, Funny Guys, The Bodyguard, Toronto
Tags: bodyguard, door, fans, hall, massey, security, stage
April 17th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Richard
Leave it to The Globe and Mail to put the whole Billy Bob Thornton interview kerfuffle into a better perspective. Russell Smith gets down to what this whole thing was really about in Billy Bob’s tantrum raises new questions - and its not whether Billy Bob had any sort of meltdown. What celebrity isn’t a little crazy. This thing has always been about some of the publicists perceived grasp on the messaging machine. Writes Smith:
“Thornton was obviously under a misconception about the kind of broadcaster (CBC) he had agreed to work with. He’s a guy who is used to dictating terms to the media. His publicists no doubt don’t really think of the media as media at all, but as a branch of the marketing department. ” - RUSSELL SMITH
But we would maybe argue with Smith’s stance that Billy Bob is just best known for being a “celebrity.” Actually, Billy Bob has often been the furthest thing from a typical Hollywood celeb. You can’t deny the guy has done some quality movie parts. Mm-hmm.
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Posted in: Interviews, Media, News, The Gossip, Toronto
Tags: blade, boxmasters, globe, sling, smith
