Flashback: Halloween and Céline

CBC

23-10-2024

Dollars for dressing up
Customers find Halloween costumes in 1996
7 days ago
Duration 1:37
CBC Kids News has you covered if you want to know what's trendy in Halloween costumes this year. (Most adults are probably familiar with Donald Trump and Beetlejuice; Skibidi Toilet, not so much. Apparently, it's a TikTok thing.)
When CBC reporter John Northcott was visiting a Toronto costume store the day before Halloween in 1996, an employee said that he'd seen customers spending $600 or $700 on a costume. Some even spent thousands, he added.
"If they know that there's money to be made out there in costume contests, a lot of people will, like, spend a year getting their costume designed [so] that they can win a lot of money," he said.
Understanding Céline
Celine Dion determined to break through in English
7 days ago
Duration 2:53
"While Céline [Dion]'s international stardom seems obvious now, it was all so unlikely," reads the synopsis of Céline: Understood, CBC's new podcast about the Quebec-born singer by creator Thomas Leblanc. Episode 2 drops this Tuesday.
Part of Episode 1 covers Dion's breakthrough beyond the French language. For CBC's The National, reporter Paul Workman interviewed the 21-year-old Dion as she worked with producer David Foster on her debut English album Unison.
"I want to be very, very popular. I want to be a star," the singer said in Workman's 1989 profile. "But I don't want to be a star here," she added, indicating her head. "I just want to be me."
This is Robert Fulford
Newspaper columnist, longtime editor of Saturday Night magazine and CBC broadcaster Robert Fulford died last week at 92, reported CBC News.
Fulford, a frequent contributor and guest on various programs on CBC-TV in the 1960s, interviewed Marshall McLuhan on This Hour Has Seven Days in 1966 and was host of the eponymous radio program This Is Robert Fulford starting in 1967.
In 1969, Fulford's guest was musician Neil Young, who, he said, had moved to Los Angeles and "achieved a certain fame" with the band Buffalo Springfield. In the interview, Young – whose solo debut had just been released – told Fulford in detail about the "involved personality problems" that led to the band's breakup.
Bogus Norval Morrisseau paintings pop up in 2005
12 days ago
Duration 2:57
Painter Norval Morrisseau designates a Toronto gallery as the only legitimate source of his work. Aired April 16, 2005 on CBC's The National.
Unproven provenance
Broadcast Dialogue has reported that CBC and ABC in Australia will be co-producing a podcast about artist Norval Morrisseau. In 2005, CBC News reported on an auction of works that looked like Morrisseau's, but probably weren't painted by him.
Tips for the Halloween routine in 1984
6 days ago
Duration 2:07
Shock warning
Cautionary advice for trick-or-treaters and their parents, as seen on CBC News in Toronto in 1984, was aimed at keeping Halloween safe. Last year, warnings from CBC News involved a scary escalation in the price of candy.
Nudists bare all for journalist June Callwood in 1961
63 years ago
Duration 13:53
The owners of Ontario's Sun Valley Gardens nudist camp chat with Callwood on CBC-TV's Close-Up. Aired Nov. 5, 1961.
Skin in the game
A recent episode of the CBC podcast The Secret Life of Canada explored the history of nudism in this country. In 1961, CBC journalist June Callwood learned about the practice by visiting the owners of an Ontario resort.
This thing he started