This week a reader of The Sanibel Sunset Detective novels e-mailed me several questions, ending with this one: “Why does a man with ten published books to his credit spend his time hawking a handful of them in an airport?”…
Yearly Archives: 2012
Standing In Airports, Holding A Book, Listening To Stories
Tagged with: Another Sanibel Sunset Detective, Captiva Island, Chicago, Ford, Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, France, Galapagos Islands, Germany, Hitler, James Patterson, Nazis, Ontario, Pete's Time Out, Sanibel Island, Shanghai, The Sanibel Sunset Detective, Windsor, World War II
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Trapped In A Snow Drift With A Legendary Movie Star, Television’s Biggest Actor, A Sex Symbol–and A Canadian Icon Named Pinsent
Reading through Next, Gordon Pinsent’s delightful autobiography (written with his friend, and mine, George Anthony), reminds me of the first time I got to know Gordon while we were trapped in a snow drift in northern British Columbia with one legendary…
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With Brooke Shields’ Mother, Dancing On A Stove In Spanish Harlem
And then–I’m not quite sure how–Brooke Shields’ mother was in the kitchen of the restaurant in Spanish Harlem, dancing on the stove. The music was playing loudly, the cooks and kitchen help were staring in amazement, as was I. Brooke…
Tagged with: Brooke Shields, Endless Love, Eric Roberts, King of the Gypsies, Louis Malle, New York, Pretty Baby, Spanish Harlem, Susan Sarandon, Teri Shields
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That Afternoon With Henry Fonda
In a fit of nostalgia yesterday I pulled John Ford’s 1946 western, My Darling Clementine, off my DVD shelf and watched it on our new fifty-five-inch Sony television screen. Magical: it brings old movies to life again with a sharpness and clarity that…
Tagged with: 12 Angry Men, Abraham Lincoln, Ambassador East Hotel, Chicago, Clarence Darrow, Detroit, Fisher Theatre, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, John Ford, King Vidor, Mr. Roberts, My Darling Clementine, Once Upon A Time in the West, Shirlee Fonda, The Battle of the Bulge, The Grapes of Wrath, The Trial of A. Lincoln, War and Peace, Wyatt Earp
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Bad Night In Paris: An Excerpt From The New Tree Callister Novel
Intrepid private eye Tree Callister returns for Another Sanibel Sunset Detective. The novel will be published by West-End Books next month, but it’s available now as an e-book. Tree is in Paris with his wife Freddie celebrating her birthday. But Freddie has…
Tagged with: Another Sanibel Sunset Detective, Hemingway, Hotel Lutetia, kir royale, La Closerie des Lillas, Paris, Sanibel Island, St. Louis
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The Last Time I Saw Jimmy Hoffa…
The last time I saw Jimmy Hoffa he was okay. It was late in the morning, and I left him standing with William F. Buckley Jr. on the floor of a Detroit television studio. What happened after that, I can’t say. We…
Tagged with: 1972, Detroit, Firing Line, Frank Mankiewicz, George McGovern, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa, Public Television, Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy, unions, William F. Buckley Jr., WTVS
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James Bond Saved My (Sex) Life
I know exactly what made James Bond so popular when I was a kid fifty years ago. Sex. James Bond was not just the world’s most famous secret agent. He was also the first sexual superhero (the only one, come to think…
Tagged with: 007, Auric Goldfinger, Brockville, Casino Royale, Daniel Craig, Dr. Julius No, Dr. No, Goldeneye, Goldfinger, Honey Ryder, Ian Fleming, James Bond, John F. Kennedy, Lawrence of Arabia, Pierce Brosnan, Roger Moore, Sean Connery, The Longest Day, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, To Kill A Mockingbird, Ursula Andress, Vanity Fair, World War II
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I Should Have Known Better: The Wildly Improbable Story of Heavenly Bodies
Last weekend, at the Canadian Film Centre’s annual barbecue in Toronto, I ran into a couple of old friends who, although they didn’t realize it, were unique among the more than two thousand industry types flowing through the old E.P.…
Tagged with: Broadway, Clark Gable, Cynthia Dale, Don Simpson, Doug Taylor, Entertainment Tonight, Flashdance, Giorgio Moroder, Heavenly Bodies, Jerry Bruckheimer, Judy Garland, Lawrence Dane, Leonard Maltin, MGM, musical, Playboy, Robert Lantos, Species, Stephen Roth, The Canadian Film Centre, TIFF, Tom Hedley, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto Star
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