A couple of weeks ago while visiting Key West, I went around to 907 Whitehead Street, the home for nine years in the 1930s of America’s most famous novelist, Ernest Hemingway. In Paris, in June, as I always do, I had dinner at La Closerie des…
Yearly Archives: 2011
BESTSELLER: The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns Tops the Bestseller List!
According to the Sanibel Island Reporter, The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns was the number one local bestseller after only one week of release. Top Ten Books On The Island 1. Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns by Ron Base 2. Mama Sees Stars…
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Sanibel, My Sanibel
Coming across the causeway that links Sanibel Island to the Florida mainland, you can see the wakes thrown off by distant pleasure craft in San Carlos Bay like great white rooster tails in the bright morning sunlight. The sunlight turns the causeway into…
Tagged with: Big Arts Center, Captiva, Gulf of Mexico, islands, Jose Gaspar, Livingston Taylor, Over The Rainbow, Sanibel, seashells, She Sells Seashells, The Sanibel Sunset Detective
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Me and the Duke
In 1975, I went down to Newport Beach, California to interview John Wayne at the rambling seaside bungalow where he had lived for ten years. Wayne promptly pumped me full of tequila, a drink I had never had before, and…
Tagged with: Brannigan, Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, Howard Hawks, John Ford, John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Newport Beach, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, The Searchers, The Shootist, The Toronto Sun
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The Florida Book Tour
Next week I’m back in Florida promoting my new novel, The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns. This is the second in a series of action-packed mystery thrillers set against the backdrop of one of North America’s last, unspoiled paradises. It features…
Shooting The Wounded
Critics, it is said, come down from the hills after the battle is over and shoot the wounded. For the better part of the 1980s, I shot the wounded as the movie critic for The Toronto Star, Canada’s largest circulation newspaper. Even…
Tagged with: Bonnie and Clyde, Clyde Gilmour, Jaws, Jay Scott, Kenneth Tynan, Marin Scorsese, Pauline Kael, Raging Bull, Steven Spielberg, Toronto Star, Toronto Telegram
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Close On David As The Screen Fades To Black
David Haslam, the founder of Marquee magazine who died Oct. 8 at the age of 67, always said he didn’t want any kind of memorial. But David played too big a part in too many lives on the Toronto movie…
Tagged with: David Haslam, Lawrence of Arabia, Markland Wood Country Club, Marquee magazine, Martin Rackin, Nicholas and Alexandra
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David Haslam
You may not have known David Haslam, but if you went to the movies in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s, you certainly knew Marquee, the movie magazine he created and published for twenty-eight years. He didn’t quite pioneer the…
Tagged with: Clint Eastwood, David Haslam, Garth Drabinsky, London Book Fair, Marquee, Martin Rackin, McMaster University, Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros
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Good-bye Blockbuster, Hello…What?
My local Blockbuster is closing down for good early next month. The other day I went around to the store to pick over the remains. The young staff members, surprisingly upbeat considering they are about to lose their jobs, said…
Tagged with: Apple TV, Blockbuster, Blu-ray, Carl Icahn, Cue Entertainment, DVDs, LCD screen, Ray Bennett, Rogers, Thor, X Men:First Class
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Ron Base Writes 