was suggested to be the voice of Gizmo, but he instead put forward Howie Mandel, who is now one of the judges on America’s Got Talent. And while the gremlins were specially made - yet terrifying ...

It’s the 1970s in Toronto, and Toronto native Howie Mandel was making a “good living” while engaged to his now wife Terry Mandel, then Soil. He had no aspirations of being a comic – or going into show ...