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Fred Langan

Reporter · CA

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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Fred Langan

    Montreal jewellery designer Roger Lucas was known as Lord of the Rings (opens the original)

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    Roger Lucas was a Montreal jeweller who made dazzling golden rings that ended up on famous fingers and in exhibits at museums in Europe and the United States. The singer Aretha Franklin was often photographed wearing a ring Mr. Lucas made. “It was a huge rectangle of gold with a series of diamonds and she used to say it was her favourite piece of jewellery,” said Philippe Lucas, the jeweller’s nephew, who is an academic living in Victoria, and a keen family historian. At the peak of his career,

  2. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Fred Langan

    Canadian actor Tedde Moore was part of a family of outstanding creative artists (opens the original)

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    Tedde Moore, who died at age 79 on Aug. 5 in Huntsville, Ont., was a classically trained actor who performed for years at the Stratford Festival and later appeared in movies such as A Christmas Story. The 1983 film was a modest success on its release but later became a holiday rerun classic. She played Miss Shields, a schoolteacher who gives a student named Ralphie, played by Peter Billingsley, a failing grade for a paper saying he wanted a BB gun for Christmas. She attends to another student, F

  3. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · Fred Langan

    Morley Torgov was a Renaissance man who wrote about the Jewish experience with wit (opens the original)

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    Morley Torgov was proof that you are never too old to become a published writer. The Toronto lawyer wrote from an early age but only published his first book, a memoir titled A Good Place to Come From, in 1974 when he was 47 and had been practising law for more than 20 years. He went on to publish seven novels, all of them marked by his sense of humour; his later work, particularly his detective novels, were historical fiction. Mr. Torgov was born on Dec. 3, 1927, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., wher

  4. Article · Jul 8, 2026 · Fred Langan

    Artist Heather Cooper designed the Roots logo, poster for inaugural TIFF (opens the original)

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    Heather Cooper might not have been a household name, but the graphic artist’s designs are iconic. She created the original logo for Roots, featuring a beaver overtop tree branches, as well as the poster for the inaugural Toronto International Film Festival in 1976. Around the same time, she drew a pair of mating lions as part of advertising campaign for a resort in Jamaica called Couples – a design considered quite risqué back then. The image was part of a successful rebrand of the nation as a v

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