That was how the summer ended. The summer of hushed ICUs and sombre doctors trying to be hopeful as they delivered hopeless news about my friend Brian. A summer of sitting at his beside inspecting curious tubes coming out of various…
Monthly Archives: August 2011
The Brockville Boys
The Brockville Boys, from left: Gord Johnston, Dave Cody, Ron Base, Calvin Prescott. The old home town is just not the same. The apartment where my brother and I lived above the Bank of Commerce at 98 King St.,…
Tagged with: Brockville, Brockville Collegiate Institute, friendship, Recorder and Times, Ron Base
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Norman
My favorite Norman Jewison movie is Gaily, Gaily. I was only twenty and just starting out in the newspaper business when I saw it in 1969. I, of course, identified with the movie’s innocent reporter-protagonist, played by a very young…
Tagged with: Bell Lightbox, Doris Day, Hollywood, In The Heat of the Night, Moonstruck, Norman Jewison, Steve McQueen, The Cincinnati Kid, TIFF
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The Private Detective Inside Me
In the late 1970s, working as a journalist for a New York syndicate I went down to Murrell’s Inlet, South Carolina, to interview the legendary mystery writer, Mickey Spillane. Beginning in 1947, Spillane wrote a series of hard-boiled novels starring…
Tagged with: Captiva, Florida, I, Mickey Spillane, Mike Shane, mystery, Sanibel Island, The Jury, The Sanibel Sunset Detective
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Ron Base Writes 