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IMG_0013RICHARD CROUSE: long bio

Richard Crouse figures he’s the luckiest person he knows. “Ever since childhood I’ve had a great interest in pop culture — music and movies chief among my obsessions — and a desire to write and perform on television.” Richard is among those lucky few that can say that he is living out his childhood dream.

His first job, at 16, was a nighttime DJ at CKBW radio in his native Nova Scotia, the youngest DJ in the Maritimes. “My position was ‘jr. announcer’, a job that actor Donald Sutherland had held at the same radio station many years before.”

In 1980 Richard moved to Toronto looked for work as a writer. “I wrote for free for anybody who would publish me, but eventually I worked my way up to writing for magazines and newspapers.” Aside from his syndicated weekly column in the Metro newspaper, Richard’s work has been featured in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, as well as many literary and music magazines. He wrote his first book when he was in his teens; a history of his favorite band The Rolling Stones. “I still have a copy, written on an old typewriter, with pictures clipped from magazines pasted in as illustrations.”

Since then Richard has written ten more books, all reviewed positively by the critics, including Rock & Roll Toronto and Who Wrote the Book of Love (Doubleday). Richard has also written a Celine Dion biography (Ballantine, New York), followed by Big Bang, Baby (a rock trivia encyclopedia for Dundurn), the best-selling The 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, its sequel The Son of the 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, the bestselling Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of The Devils and Elvis is King: Costello’s My Aim is True (ECW Press).

Richard now finds himself in front of the camera. He is the host of the CTV talk show Pop Life, the regular film critic for the 24 hour news source CTV’s News Channel and CP24. His syndicated Saturday afternoon radio show, The Richard Crouse Show, originates on News Talk 1010 in Toronto. In 2011 he hosted In Short, a series of eight hour long show showcasing BravoFact’s best short films. He was the host of Reel to Real, Canada’s longest running television show about movies, from 1998 to 2008 and is a frequent guest on many national Canadian radio and television shows.

Although Richard has been living out his childhood dream, he’s not content to idly sit back and enjoy the ride. Always looking forward to the next challenge, Richard has the drive to accomplish whatever he sets out to do. When asked what he’d like to find at the end of the rainbow, Richard simply replies with a smile, “Another rainbow.” Based on his track record, he’ll have no trouble finding it.

RICHARD CROUSE: short bio 

Richard Crouse is the regular film critic for the 24 hour news source CTV’s News Channel and CP24. His syndicated Saturday afternoon radio show, The Richard Crouse Show, originates on News Talk 1010 in Toronto. He is also the author of ten books on pop culture history including Who Wrote the Book of Love, the best-selling The 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, its sequel The Son of the 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, the bestselling Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of The Devils and Elvis is King: Costello’s My Aim is True. In 2011 he hosted In Short, a series of eight hour long show showcasing BravoFact’s best short films. He was the host of Reel to Real, Canada’s longest running television show about movies, from 1998 to 2008 and is a frequent guest on many national Canadian radio and television shows.

RICHARD CROUSE: medium bio

Richard Crouse is the regular film critic for the 24 hour news source CTV’s News Channel and CP24. His syndicated Saturday afternoon radio show, The Richard Crouse Show, featuring film reviews, interviews and news, originates on News Talk 1010 in Toronto. He is also the author of ten books on pop culture history including Who Wrote the Book of Love, the best-selling The 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, its sequel The Son of the 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen and the bestselling Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of The Devils and Elvis is King: Costello’s My Aim is True. His work has also been featured in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, as well as many literary and music magazines. In 2011 he hosted In Short, a series of eight hour long show showcasing BravoFact’s best short films. He was the host of Reel to Real, Canada’s longest running television show about movies, from 1998 to 2008, the host of Richard Crouse’s Movie Show on the Independent Film Channel, a regular pundit for Star TV’s Best! Movies! Ever! and the host of The 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen on Rogers Television. He is also a frequent guest on many national Canadian radio and television shows.