AL4 ARTS & LIFE NATIONAL POST, MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2008 Episodes may involve kitchen sink calamities and washbasin wreckage Family Guy’s henpecked husband Cleveland Brown FAMILY GUY SPINOFF wife. Once cancelled by Fox, might be getting his own show. The Fox network and the Family Guy returned to the show’s producer, 20th Century Fox TV, are developing Mike Henry — a writer/producer who voices Cleveland network in 2005 and is now a spinoff from their hit animated series centred on lead — and Rich Appel, an executive producer on MacFarlane’s Fox’s top-rated comedy. character Peter Griffin’s bathtub accident-prone neigh- other Fox cartoon, American Dad . Cleveland, pictured, The show has grown into a bour, sources say. The project, tentatively titled Cleveland, who plays up black stereotypes, is the most level-headed US$1-billion franchise. The is being written by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, of Griffin’s trio of friends. He’s also pushed around by his Hollywood Reporter Ankagives them What a burdenhe My Way his way must have years after its release, the pol- Songwriters Hall itically charged song remains an emotional evocation of the beenonAvril of Fame inductee darkness and hardships of working-class Quebecers be- gets Chrétien intro fore the Quiet Revolution. SUM 41 Other inductees on the Continued from Page AL1 B Y A DAM M C D OWELL night include: ❚ In the radio-era category, He says the time from his TORONTO • Paul Anka was late big band hitmaker Alex injury until now has been “a inducted into the Canadian Kramer and Boîte à chansons period of uncertainty.” Songwriters Hall of Fame on star André Lejeune. Jazz sing- “I didn’t know when I was Saturday night, and no one er Emilie-Claire Barlow per- going to be OK, [or if we were] could accuse him of not doing formed Kramer’s Ain’t Nobody going to be able to go back on it his way. Here but Us Chickens (which tour. Is this record going to be Not only did the Ottawa- he co-wrote with Joan Whit- over by that point? Is the rec- raised singer and songwriter ney). ord company going to pick up close out the show in grand ❚ Among the individual songs this record again and go for style by singing My Way , he inducted were Raoul Duguay’s another single?” also had a former prime minis- La bittt à Tibi and Anna Mc- By January, Whibley says, ter on hand to introduce him. Garrigle’s Heart Like a Wheel. life was becoming, if not “I wasn’t going to perform McGarrigle took the stage with normal, at least slightly less at all,” Anka said the day be- children Lily and Sylvan Lank- painful. Finally able to move fore the gala at the Toronto en, sister Kate McGarrigle and around like a healthy 27-year- Centre for the Arts. “But after Kate’s children, Rufus and old again, Whibley got band- some discussion, and realizing Martha Wainwright, for a fam- mates Steve Jocz (drums) and the impact of My Way , I chose ily rendition of the song. Cone McCaslin (bass) back to do it myself.” The CSHF also paid tribute to together for rehearsals so the It was Frank Sinatra who late jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, band could make up for the made My Way famous, but it who had been named this year’s lost time in Canada and over- was another Ol’ Blue Eyes who recipient of the Frank Davies seas. As for radio, their third introduced Anka on Saturday. Legacy Award prior to his death single With Me is just surfa- “He asked me to come,” said from kidney failure last Decem- cing in Canada, with a release Anka’s azure-eyed old friend, ber. “He was very, very proud” elsewhere expected in April. Jean Chrétien, adding that of the award, said Oliver Jones, Four days into their make- while Anka has never had as a fellow pianist and Montreal up tour in the U.K., Whibley much recognition in this coun- neighbour of Peterson’s. is already jokily grouching try as he has in the United Jones played Peterson’s about the pace. “Of course, States, “that’s Canada.” inducted song Hymn to Free- since we’ve been off for so Like his fellow inductee dom (co-written with Har- long and because I’m injured Claude Dubois, Anka took five riette Hamilton) with Dione CANWEST NEWS SERVICE they throw us into a four-day- songs into the Hall of Fame Taylor on vocals. “Oscar wrote Bartender Michael Mete of George Lounge in Vancouver mixes a drink with cachaca. in-a-row schedule,” he says. with him. it, but I’ve played it probably The band returns to Canada Diana , Put Your Head On more than he has, because I on March 7 with a stop in My Shoulder and It Doesn’t used to play it at the end of Moncton, N.B. From there, Matter Anymore were all hits every one of my concerts,” they’ll work their way west- from his 1950s teen idol days. Jones said. ward until they hit Toronto on As Anka grew up and tastes Father and son Ellis and MOVE OVER,TEQUILA March 27. evolved, he shifted his focus Branford Marsalis also hon- Though Whibley says the from performing to com- oured Peterson by perform- band was dedicated to “go- posing. In 1969, he took a ing Wheatland from the late Fred Tibbitts, a global bev- observes Tibbitts. “I don’t ing back and playing all the French song called Comme musician’s Canadiana Suite. erage consultant with Fred think anybody’s making a lot things that we missed” al- d’Habitude, gave it new, val- Peterson’s music “helped set Hey millennials: Tibbitts & Associates. “Their of money off it yet.” edictory lyrics and it became a standard for elegance and There’s a new mother’s or father’s beverage Technically part of the rum My Way . It would become Sin- beauty,” Ellis Marsalis said. is not going to be theirs.” family, cachaca is instead be- atra’s signature tune. The CSHF was founded 10 drink in town! According to Adams Bever- ing pushed as “the next te- She’s A Lady , from 1971, was years ago to honour Canadian age Group, sales of cachaca quila” because of the wider The time since a hit for Tom Jones. songwriters. Performers on in 2006 were up 63% over the consumption possibilities. B Y M ISTY H ARRIS Whibley’s injury Dubois, Anka’s francophone Saturday said the gala, in its previous year, with more than Tequila saw its sales climb counterpart in the modern-era fifth year, has raised the pro- Cachaca, a Brazilian drink 65,000 nine-litre cases of the 1,500% between 1975 and 1995 has been a ‘period category, also opted to sing file and respect of songwriting most Canadians have never spirit sold in the United States. — a trajectory any company one of his own songs, Comme in this country. heard of — let alone tried to Although Canada tends to would hope to replicate. of uncertainty’ un million de gens . Forty-two Canwest News Service pronounce — is being pos- trail two to four years behind “People who appreciate fine itioned as the next tequila by U.S. alcohol trends, signposts cognacs, bourbons and tequilas ready, Sum 41’s time in Can- industry insiders who hope to of the new vogue for cachaca will appreciate the cachacas. ada has been edited. The imbue the sugarcane liquor are already appearing here. They have a very unique, spe- band is up for a best rock with top-shelf appeal. Vancouver’s beautiful people cific flavour,” says Julieanne album Juno, but won’t be Once derided in Esquire have been sipping on premium Younghans, whose award-win- able to make the April 6 cere- Drinks as tasting “like it ning Agua Luca is one of the mony; they catch a flight to was aged in old truck tires,” few cachaca brands backed by Australia the same day. As cachaca (ka-sha-sa) is now hit- a heavyweight U.S. distillery, well, a stop in Hamilton has ting its stride among North namely Heaven Hill. already been ditched; an offi- America’s chattering classes Once unpopular, Although Brazil boasts more cial announcement appeared thanks to custom imports the newly hip than 5,000 brands of its nation- on Sum 41’s Web site the day crafted to be smoother, sweet- al drink, just a handful are avail- before this interview. er and less likely to induce drink is now able in North America, most Whibley says nobody in- fire-breathing than its South of them distributed by smaller formed him of the cancella- American predecessors. causing lineups companies hoping to grab a tion, and as of press time, the GLENN LOWSON FOR NATIONAL POST “The millennials are really share of the growing trend. band’s management had not Serena Ryder belts out Paul Anka’s It Doesn’t Matter going to jump on this because cachaca since it was introduced The premium spirit is most responded to a query as to Anymore at the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame gala. it’s so new and different,” says at the plushy George Lounge in often imbibed in caipirinhas why the show was chucked. the upscale neighbourhood of (ky-pee-reen-yas), a mixed drink In any case, it has nothing to Yaletown last October. In Mont- described by Beverage Dynam- do with another rock-related COLLEGE ROAD TRIP real and Toronto, upscale bars ics magazine as “the driving injury. and South American-themed force behind the mini cachaca Not that Whibley’s now- CONTESTWINNERS watering holes have been offer- boom.” At last week’s Nightclub aching back has changed the These50fanswill receiveadouble pass ing the drink for years. & Bar trade show in Las Vegas, way he approaches a world And at the recent Fashion a booth offering a taste of the tour. Though he says he’s still tothe specialscreening of COLLEGE ROAD TRIP Week in New York, visiting newly hip cocktail caused some in constant pain, it all changes on Wednesday,March5,7:00pm atScotiabank Theatre. Canuck tastemakers enjoyed of the longest lineups of the come showtime. “It’s so much the sought-after cocktail Brazil- event attended by industry in- adrenaline that you don’t RuthAdams––Toronto LacyGromoll –Barrie ThelmaAnderson –Toronto JenniferHoffman–Toronto ian Wax — equal parts cachaca siders from 27 countries. really feel [anything],” he says, AlexAngelus –Scarborough Debbie Jewczyk–Thornhill and pineapple juice, served in “Awareness has to come “but there’s been so many Gordon Anker–Toronto Mary Kapalka–Oakville a lowball tumbler with a splash from somewhere, and the cai- times on this tour so far I felt PaulaBateman–Toronto RositaLau–NorthYork Carol Belisle –Toronto David Lin –Toronto of Triple Sec and club soda. pirinha could be the catalyst,” like I was going to jump into Phil Bellamy–Toronto Reg McDonald –Toronto “Cachaca is a hot category, says Toronto’s Kevin Brauch, the crowd again, but I stopped JeffreyBerman–Thornhill Lauren Miyazaki –Agincourt although it’s still emerging,” host of the TV series The myself.” Frank Blum–Toronto KathyPodwin –Pickering Thirsty Traveler . Whibley adds: “We’re the SethBlustein –Richmond Hill RandyRochwerg–Toronto Cheryll Boayes–Toronto Jeff Rothman–Thornhill “But they might need a same idiots we’ve always Ron Bowmile –Thornhill SharmilaSamuel –Toronto North American twist on the been.” RayButryn–Toronto RandySandler–Unionville word — call it a caipi. Like Dose.ca BrianByrne –Toronto AlanShawn–NorthYork with wine, nobody wants to LawrenceCheng –Toronto LawrenceShum–Willowdale Scott Cuthbert –Toronto Sheldon Silver–Thornhill pronounce a name wrong and Elli Davis–Toronto Danielle Stockley––Scarborough embarrass themselves.” Nicole Delesalle –Toronto Kitty Sudworth–Stouffville Until there are more pre- RichardDicintio –Toronto LauraThompson –Toronto mium brands available, how- Robert Edwards–Scarborough TeresaTomasi–Woodbridge Michele Eilander–Toronto AndyTsang –NorthYork ever, Brauch doesn’t think the DanGaller–Thornhill Mary Virginillo –Toronto Brazilian firewater will be- Ron Glover–Etobicoke AnnWilkins–Toronto come a hit with Canadians. BegonaGoegginger–Toronto KatherineYeung –Scarborough WinnersmustpickuptheirpassesMarch3,4&5between8:45am-4:30pm. JayGoodis–Toronto Rosanne Zarnett –Toronto “Right now, we mostly have NationalPost,1450Don MillsRoad, Don MillsOntario,M3B3R5. the Canadian or Labatt of These5fanswill receivethe WAVE RIPPLE WINNER'SPHOTO I.D.REQUIREDINORDERTO PICKUPPASSES.NOEXCEPTIONS. cachaca: the ubiquitous, high- and adouble pass tothe specialscreening of COLLEGE ROADTRIP volume stuff that’s just run through the factory and is sort of bland,” he says. “It took a trip Michael Brameld –Pickering GiannaParise–Bolton ADAM M C DOWELL / NATIONAL POST to Brazil for me to really under- David Eng –Toronto Shaynie Schwartz–Toronto Pass doesnotguarantee admission toscreening.Winners must arriveearly.Seating islimited From left: Sum 41’s Whibley, and on afirst come,first servebasis.Noone will beadmitted oncethe screening begins. A caipirinha prepared at stand and appreciate cachaca.” RyanMohammed –Etobicoke Organizershavetherighttorefuseadmittance.Ticketsarenotavailableforpurchaseandhave Caju in Toronto. Canwest News Service Jocz and McCaslin no retail value.