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Will Smith tries to be a hero and Eddie Murphy gets spaced out. Gloria Martin looks at what's new in video.

Thanks to the U.S. holiday, it's a big week for movies with everything from epics to action and comedy. Gloria Martin looks at what you have to choose from.

Canadian actor Jason Priestly became a Hollywood star with his role as Brandon Walsh on the hit TV series Beverly Hills 90210 in the 1990s. He went on to produce and direct 18 episodes. In January, he will direct an episode of the new 90210 series. Priestly is married now with a 17-month-old daughter. Gloria Martin caught up with him at the Windsor Arms Hotel.

The new sports comedy DVD release Slapshot: The Junior League features the Hanson Borthers, comedy legend Leslie Nielsen and hockey greats Mark Messier and Doug Gilmour.

Gloria Martin talked to Ryan McDonell and Hunter Elliot, two young Canadian actors who caught a break and got cast in the movie.

Patrick McKenna became a familiar TV face starring as Marty Stephens, the frenetic head trader on the CBC television series Traders, and later as the loveable and naive nephew Harold on The Red Green Show (for 15 seasons). In 1998, Mr. McKenna won a Gemini for each of these roles, becoming the first person ever to win the award for dramatic and comedic performances in the same year. Gloria Martin talks to Patrick about his stage debut in the Canadian Stage Production of the Christmas classic It's A Wonderful Life at the Bluma Appel Theatre in which he plays Clarence the guardian angel hoping to win his wings by helping a distraught man realize the true value of his life.

Actor Jeff Madden is an eight-year veteran of the Shaw Festival who is taking over the lead role in the Tony and Grammy award winning musical Jersey Boys at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, playing legendary performer Frankie Valli. Gloria Martin talked to him after his debut performance for the Toronto media at a rehearsal studio on Eastern Avenue.

Producer Aubrey Dan of Dancap Productions brought the Tony and Grammy award-winning musical Jersey Boys based on the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, to the Toronto Centre for the Arts where it has been a roaring success. So successful in fact that a new Canadian cast has been hired to continue the run. Gloria Martin talked to him about why the show has such appeal.

Gloria Martin talked to Canada's home design queen, Debbie Travis, about her new book Not guilty: My Guide to Working Hard, Raising Kids and Laughing through the Chaos.

Hilary Duff is launching her new charity, "Blessings in a Backpack," in New York and Toronto to provide food for the weekend for needy students.

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World reknowned Canadian architect Grank Gehry grew up visiting the AGO - and now he's re-modeled it. Gloria Martin got a sneak peak at the $276-million redesign that opens to the public Friday.