When I encountered him, Mort Sahl was opening at The Top Hat, a Windsor, Ontario nightclub better known for take-my-wife-please comedians than it was for Sahl’s cutting-edge brand of satire. At that point, in the early 1970s, the Montreal-born Sahl…
Monthly Archives: October 2021
The Forgotten Comedian: Remembering Mort Sahl
Tagged with: comedians, Dave Shappelle, Joe Rogan, Mort Sahl, Ontario, Time magazine, Top Hat, Windsor
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The Legend Was a Lady: Remembering Martha Henry
To be honest, I didn’t know quite what to make of Martha Henry when I first met her on the set of White Light, a movie that I had written and was co-producing. After all, this was…Martha Henry! Even back…
Final Curtains
This past week Silverview, the last novel by the great John Le Carré arrived on my doorstep. Earlier, I saw No Time To Die, which—spoiler alert!—may very well be the final James Bond movie. And now word has come from…
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Ron Base Writes 