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- The July 1st long weekend - the unofficial start of party season. Mickey and Justin Rappaport - father and son nightclub owners, DJs, and perpetual teenagers - are getting ready to celebrate the club's 25th anniversary. But key staff have quit, disaster looms behind the bar, and once again they have to improvise.
- The end of the season is near, and Mick throws a party to thank the staff for their hard work. Everyone's excited - especially because Mick has sprung for lobster. But someone has to cook the meal, and as always, the job nobody wants falls to Justin, who's finally had enough.
- Episode 2: Born to the Mob On a warm spring day in 1997, a 73 year old man lay facedown, motionless in the middle of the Hamilton neighbourhood where he was born and raised. John Papalia, the last bloody remnant of a once powerful Mafia empire has just been hit. Papalia, who gained international notoriety with his involvement in the 'French Connection' drug ring, was known as "Johnny Pops", a nickname bestowed on him in honour of his bootlegging father, Antonio "Popa" Papalia. Over the span of his career he would pummel the underworld and become known as 'The Enforcer'. Later, out of spite, he was known as the 'The Old Bastard'. Papalia led a colourful life, yet it was restricted and controlled. Johnny's turf was Hamilton and the base of operations, indeed the place of his birth, was Railway Street. Johnny was a sickly child, his lungs ravaged by life-threatening TB. He grew up a brash young man who ran head-long into trouble with the law. Johnny's obsession was with becoming an upper-echelon Mafioso. It's what drove him to seek control of the gambling racket in the 1950's and what pushed him into the most famous drug smuggling operation ever, The French Connection. His rewards were plenty -- shiny new Cadillac's, a criminal franchise under Buffalo's Stephano 'The Undertaker' Magaddino and extraordinary wealth. But, loyalty to La Cosa Nostra came at a price as well. Long prison sentences aggravated his TB. Constant police surveillance created a suspicious and paranoid mob boss. Johnny remained unfailingly loyal to the Mafia, but a younger more sophisticated Mafiosi resented his control over their operations. They saw Johnny as an obstacle in their way. In the underworld, everyone's time, even Johnny 'Pops', 'The Old Bastard' comes to an untimely end.
- Cocos opens full time on Canada Day 4TH of July long weekend. The forecast is sunshine, and beach goers are ready to party after a long winter and full school year. Gearing up for the crowds, Cocos is short-staffed: manager Natalie works the phone to scramble last minute servers.
- A look at the nightclub culture in Canada's notorious Toronto Entertainment District. Like oil and water, homes and nightclubs try to live together.
- Beach volleyball weekend in Grand Bend. Hundreds of ready-to-party tourists, but the other bar in town has them sewn up. Mickey decides to fight back with an old school trick: a bikini contest. But this is the 21st century. Can he find enough contestants to make it interesting?
- It's the middle of summer, and everyone at Cocos needs a vacation. Natalie deals with her stress by partying on the beach and bringing everyone back to Shady Lanes. Justin's in the doghouse with Amelia, and tries to make it up to her by arranging a romantic camping trip.
- Italian folklore brands him the devil's child--the seventh child of a seventh child. This true volpe-meaning fox in Italian-will live up to his name. Police will soon know him as one of Canada's most wily and cagey mobsters.
- Drag racing weekend at the local Motorplex: Mickey dons his 70s shag wig and baseball cap in anticipation of the arriving race crowds. Justin's girlfriend Amelia finally has the day off, and heads to the beach with some girlfriends. Before they leave, manager Natalie pours them tequila shots - but, as usual, she holds down the fort.
- Features rare home movies and interviews with Steve Allen, Lombardo's surviving siblings, and former members of the Royal Canadians. To observe that Lombardo was "the only Canadian ever to create an American tradition."
- May 2-4 Weekend, Victoria Day. Time to slam the door on winter and launch another party season. Mickey and Justin Rapaport - father and son nightclub owners, DJs, and perpetual teenagers - are back at it. But Mother Nature tosses them a lemon, and once again they have to improvise.
- After a miserable season, Mick, Justin and Nancy are licking their wounds in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. Justin is unhappy after splitting with Amelia, who also turns up in Playa and doesn't seem to miss her ex-boyfriend. A chance meeting between Justin and Amelia is inevitable.
- The mercury rockets past 100 degrees, and Cocos is a pressure cooker. The kitchen is critically short-staffed, and Justin has to pitch in at the stove. Meanwhile, Mick's niece Natalie, who quit Cocos after last summer, comes back to help out, and starts to boss the new managers around.
- Hurt (2015) is a documentary portrait of Steve Fonyo, a one-legged cancer survivor who successfully completed a cross-Canada run in the '80s, only to spend three decades mired in crime and addiction.
- Another season comes to a close. As Justin tries to stretch the remaining food supplies to last one more dinner service, Mick takes off to DJ on the beach. In an instant, the father-son relationship is reversed. Then, one last event: a Labour Day blowout that's also Justin's 26th birthday party.
- Justin and Mick are still moping around Playa Del Carmen, while Amelia settles in as a beer-shack bartender. Determined to help her son, Nancy sets up an "accidental" meeting for Justin with a top nightclub owner, which leads to an opportunity to get his life back on track.
- Cocos is a family business, in the traditional sense. Niece Natalie has worked there eight years so has Mick's "adopted son", frontman and hustler Patrick. Suddenly halfway through the summer, the family structure unravels. Without warning or explanation, Natalie hangs her keys on the door, and disappears, leaving Cocos to scramble for the upcoming long weekend.
- As this terrible summer season comes to an end, everyone in the Cocos family is looking for something to change their luck. In preparation for her adventures in Greece, Amelia and Justin part ways, Justin sees no other option but to join his parents in Mexico.
- Over the years, Shirley is privy to countless whispered confidences within the Mafia, a murderous clan that punishes those who betrays its trust.
- Documents the real Mafia, a criminal network that spanned the Canadian and U.S. border for close to a century.
- Good help is hard to find in a party town. Cocos is desperate for a great bartender and a greeter to pull in the crowds. Enter a super-confident dreadlocked blonde known as 'The Shark', and High Kick, who is eager to become the first male bartender at Cocos in 10 years.
- Noelle's Journey is a film about Noelle Elia. A multimedia artist, she writes and films the human condition and shares her discoveries through her work. Her major documentary film project has revolved around Franco Grosso, a working class popcorn vendor. When he unexpectedly passes away, Noelle is prompted to look at her film and its meaning in a new way. This quest for understanding brings her grandfather, Mariano, a successful industrialist, into the spotlight and begins to reveal the underpinnings of an Italian-Canadian community of over 1 million people who travelled to Canada for a new life. Follow Noelle as she goes back to the beginning to discover who we are today.
- Vic 'The Egg' Cotroni, Montreal's undisputed mob boss. His life of crime is lived behind the scenes--a shadow, a cunning nocturnal manipulator of the underworld and mainstream society.
- Bad weather is keeping the crowds away from Grand Bend, and the summer at Cocos is in danger of going up in smoke. Not even the notorious High Kick can get the party started, so Mick pulls out the surest weapon of all. Can a burlesque-themed night turn things around?
- 1996–200743mTV EpisodeOver her 25-year dance career, Veronica Tennant's reputation grew to international stature along with that of the National Ballet of Canada. She earned accolades in every major classical role as well as having several ballets choreographed for her. And although she retired from the ballet 11 years ago, she has never stopped working. She is a wife, mother, broadcaster, children's author, television producer and director - a true Renaissance woman. With film footage documenting her entire career and interviews with National Ballet of Canada icon Celia Franca, ballet superstars Rex Harrington and Evelyn Hart, writer Timothy Findley, and her friends and family, Veronica Tennant: Renaissance Woman explores the many sides of one of Canada's greatest artists, Veronica Tennant. In 1955, the Tennants came to Canada from London, England to make a new life for themselves and their two girls. Dancing from the age of four, nine classes a week, then homework until 11 p.m, every night. At age 18, she became the youngest person ever to enter the National Ballet Company, and made her debut in the principal role in Romeo and Juliet. By 1976, she was living every ballet student's dream - a star at the National Ballet and touring across North America, Europe and Japan with the greatest male dancers of our time, including Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Rudolf Nureyev. Like any other dancer, Tennant has had to find a second life beyond the stage. Since her retirement at the age of 43, she has written and produced a series of successful dance television specials, winning an International Emmy Award in 1999 for Karen Kain: Dancing in the Moment. She is also Toronto's cultural ambassador for the 2008 Olympic Bid, the latest in an impressive line of roles she's played to promote the arts. Now 54, the physical effort of her lifelong passion in dance is taking its toll. This month she will undergo hip replacement surgery, a not-uncommon side effect for professional dancers.
- The bad weather is ruining the summer season, and Mick is so on edge, his family sends him away for some enforced R'n'R at the Digital Dreams Music Festival. He comes back inspired, and puts on the best party of the season. The crowds come back, and Cocos is hopping once again.
- For the first time in twenty-five years, Mick and Nancy are taking a day off, leaving Justin to manage Cocos by himself. Justin is desperate to show Mick that he's ready for more responsibility. Now, he finally gets to show if he deserves to be 'The Man'.
- Competition is fierce at the hottest beach town around. Mick enrols Justin and Patrick to take out Cocos leaky boat, to fly their newly printed flag and do some publicity at the beach. Watching over beach goers is handsome Mexican lifeguard Juan, also the resident DJ at Gables, the rival bar up the strip. Gables is Coco's main nemesis and hated by Mick.
- As the family heads into the final stretch of summer, Patrick comes to Grand Bend to work his last weekend at Cocos. Determined to make it worthwhile, he's lining up dates for every night - sometimes with more than one girl. His departure party will be bittersweet. Patrick predicts Mick won't show emotion, but everyone admits Cocos won't be the same when their frontman is gone.
- The Life and Times of Robert Lantos chronicles the rise from poverty of Canada's foremost film and television producer.
- The Real Jack the Ripper looks at the 'Autumn of Terror' in London's East end in 1888 through the eyes of the victims of Jack the Ripper.
- From myths to monsters to Twilight. Where did 'Vampire' come from? Where is it today? And where is it going next?
- The sunshine is back, but for Cocos there are more clouds on the horizon. Justin's girlfriend, Amelia, is questioning their future together, and planning a trip to Greece without him. Mick's niece Natalie is also wondering if it's time to move on from her job managing the cottages next door.
- When Mike Racco passes on, his son Domenic must rise alone, earning honor and respect from rivals ready to strike at any show of weakness.
- Episode: (1997)1996–200745mTV EpisodeVilleneuve - a legend, a champion. The powerful saga of the greatest Father-Son drivers in racing history.
- When Michael Wiseman finds himself thrown out of his wealthy Toronto family home for abusing drugs, he proceeds to fall into a lonely, drug-laden personal nightmare accompanied by a sleazy drug dealer and a hooker from Parry Sound.
- You Are Here - A Come From Away Story is an intimate feature documentary that goes deep into the community of Gander, Newfoundland where 38 airliners carrying over 6,500 passengers were forced to land after the terrorist attacks on 9/11. The film pulls back the emotional layers surrounding the five days during which the community housed, fed and cared for the dislocated passengers (or the "come from aways" in Newfoundland parlance). While their stories were the inspiration for the extraordinary Broadway hit musical, Come From Away, the documentary, You Are Here, reveals first-hand accounts of the great kindnesses and energetic resourcefulness the community showed their unexpected guests. Their emotional and sometimes humorous story of compassion and generosity, born of a long history of rescuing and welcoming shipwrecked sailors, resonates with a legacy of healing and reconciliation for the world - especially for the survivors of those murdered on 9/11, and for the first responders who lost their own lives saving others on that fateful day.
- The life and times of Paul Gross. Meet the man behind the "Mountie".