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…
Monthly Archives: September 2012
James Bond Saved My (Sex) Life
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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Je Suis Québécois (Except I Am Being Held Prisoner In Milton, Ontario)
When my wife and I moved to Montreal, the Separatist government of Bernard Landry was in power. I never felt so Canadian. Living in Quebec, you are not exposed nearly so much to the incessant barrage of American culture most English…
Tagged with: Bernard Landry, Brian Mulroney, Charlevoix, Fleuve St-Laurent, Gaspé, Jean Charest, Leila Basen, Milton, Montreal, Mordecai Richler, Mount Royal, Nick Auf der Maur, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Old Town, Ontario, Parti Québécois, Pauline Marois, Place Jacques Cartier, Quebec City, Separtists, snow, sovereignty, St. Lawrence River, St. Urbain Street, Terence McKenna, the Plateau, Toronto, Winston Churchill Pub
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Ron Base Writes 