NEWS: BEST and WORST Celebrity Autograph signers to come through Canada during 2009

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(HoundsTV – December 31, 2009) Since our list last year was so popular – we had to rate the BEST and WORST autograph signers in Canada for 2009.

Who was good about signing? Who was bad? What were the memorable experiences?
Some quick notes about our surveying method – which we admit is based more [...]

RANTS: Why Toronto hates the TTC – Stupid shit like NOT having ALL collector booths open when busy (and good looking signs)

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Sure, it was nice of the TTC to provide free transit rides for Toronto peeps traveling on New Years Eve between 12 and 4 am. But my experience with Toronto’s better way twelve hours earlier is what will leave a bitter taste in my mouth and make me forget quickly about any good.

NEWS: Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) in Toronto to talk, not sing, at Islamic Conference – He was good to the autograph hounds who managed to find him

(HoundsTV) – The singer formally known as Cat Stevens – Yusuf Islam, made a low-key appearance at an Islamic education conference this weekend in Toronto. Yusuf’s speaking engagement at the conference was being kept under the radar and inquiring media was instructed that Dr. Islam would not be doing any photo ops or interviews.
A [...]

SALE: A IS FOR ALLAH hardcover BOOK signed and inscribed by YUSUF ISLAM $99 – autographed Tea For The Tillerman record $225

A IS FOR ALLAH is a beautifully illustrated and photographed book by Yusuf Islam, once formally known as Cat Stevens, who was a keynote speaker during the 2009 Reviving the Islamic Spirit convention at Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Canada during December, 2009.
Yusuf was very kind to personally sign and inscribe “peace & happiness” on [...]

NEWS: Bollywood star Akshay Kumar with the Olympic Torch on Yonge St in Toronto

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Bollywood star Akshay Kumar with the Olympic Torch on Yonge St. just north of Wellesley in downtown Toronto. Kumar’s Olympic torch run was delayed as protesters were blocking Yonge St.
The Bollywood star was personally invited to Canada to participate in the torch relay by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on his [...]

VIDEO: Ivan and Jason Reitman: A father passing his son the Olympic Torch on Yonge St. in Toronto

NEWS: IT’S ON BITCHES! – WIND mobile launches in Canada to take on incumbents BELL and ROGERS

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Some mobile relief must be needed when you get a big crowd of people and media to brave the frigid cold of Toronto for the official launch of a new mobile brand and store in Canada – WIND.
Even more impressive, the crowd was awaiting the unveiling of a big outdoor statue – which [...]

NEWS: The strange health saga of French entertainment icon Johnny Hallyday

We hear the health of France’s biggest rock star is finally improving as doctors brought Johnny Hallyday out of a medically induced coma he had been in since last week.
The coma was necessary due to complications the 66 year-old Hallyday was having after a botched surgery on his back this year. Even Johnny’s good friend, [...]

REVIEW: Harry Potter community screening with Daniel Radcliffe at Varsity cinemas, Toronto actually kinda sucked

I was recently invited to an interesting DVD launch event. I was intrigued that Warner Brothers was doing this “live community screening featuring star Daniel Radcliffe” (their words) to promote the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince on Blu-ray and DVD.
Now, the event was well put together and the couple hundred people [...]

NEWS: What Toronto Blue Jays VERNON WELLS was doing exactly when ROY HALLADAY was traded to Philadelphia – signing autographs at SEARS

(HoundsTV) Toronto Blue Jays slugger Vernon Wells makes an appearance at the Jays Shop in Sears during Monday afternoon of December 14th. Around this same time, news would be breaking that Well’s star teammate and ace pitcher Roy Halladay was being traded to the Philadelphia Phillies.
Just a couple days before this store signing, Wells [...]

SALE: A HISTORY OF GHOSTS first edition hardcover BOOK signed by Dan and Peter Aykroyd $95.00

Peter Aykroyd and son Dan Aykroyd recently appeared at Indigo Books, Toronto to chat about and sign, A History of Ghosts. Dan would talk about his fathers writings on the supernatural would eventually become his inspiration for writing Ghostbusters.
HoundsTV managed to get a very few of these 1st edition hardcovers autographed by both Dan [...]

SALE: BURTON Cummings autographed Above the ground CD $69

Canadian rock icon and former Guess Who frontman Burton Cummings released his first CD of new solo material in almost twenty years during 2008. Cummings came to Toronto to support the disc – Above The Ground by playing a rare mall show at Toronto’s First Canadian Place shopping centre surprising a lunch-time crowd.
After the concert, [...]

NEWS: Tiger Woods seems pretty screwed with sponsors – Just Don’t look to the autograph hounds for sympathy

Since we love autographs at HoundsTV -we couldn’t help be taken aback for a second when visiting Tiger Woods official website for a read of his latest cowardly statement (aren’t Tiger’s meant to roar, not hide?)
Interesting of Tiger to feature his own, big, bold autograph just before his “infidelity” statement.
It is well known and documented [...]

SALE: Late night band leader Paul Shaffer signed hardcover book $69 – A Swingin’ Showbiz Saga

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Paul Shaffer admitted he doesn’t get home to Toronto very often and does miss the city he called home as a child. New York has been his home for the past thirty years.
Shaffer did get back to Toronto recently to promote his just released memoir, We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our [...]

SALE: IL DIVO signed THE PROMISE CD $79 – autographed by Sebastien, Carlos, David, and Urs in Toronto 2008

IL DIVO stops by Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto this week for another sold-out show.
Last year, IL DIVO released another #1 hit record, THE PROMISE. The group was on a worldwide promotional tour for the CD and touched down in Toronto, Canada for a brief signing appearance.
“The Promise” CD is beautifully autographed in silver [...]

SOLD: Christopher Plummer signed IN SPITE OF MYSELF book $125

Canadian acting icon Christopher Plummer released his autobiography during 2008 and threw his many decades on the stage and screen the hard-living Plummer has many interesting stories to share.
HoundsTV was at one of Plummer’s first stops on his book tour – Theatre Books in Toronto and got a limited amount of these first-edition hardcovers signed [...]