Monthly Archives: November 2011

Sanibel, My Sanibel

Posted on November 30, 2011 by ronbase — 1 Comment

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

Posted on November 15, 2011 by ronbase — 2 Comments

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

Posted on November 14, 2011 by ronbase — 2 Comments

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…

Tagged with: Bailey's General Store, Captiva Island, Florida, Fort Myers, MacIntosh Books, mystery thriller, Sanibel Island, Sanibel Island Bookshop, The Sanibel Sunset Detective, Tree Callister
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Shooting The Wounded

Posted on November 1, 2011 by ronbase — Leave a comment

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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