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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.