We were on our way to a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball game, having a bite to eat in a Hollywood diner before heading out. “Now listen,” said Craig Modderno, a freelance journalist who, I had learned from sometimes head-shaking experience,…
Monthly Archives: January 2022
CALL ME MEAT
Tagged with: Bat Out of Hell, Craig Modderno, Dodger Stadium, Greg Henry, Los Angeles Dodgers, Marvin Lee Aday, Meat Loaf
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TO SIDNEY, WITH LOVE: REMEMBERING SIDNEY POITIER
My lasting memory of Sidney Poitier as the news came of his death t the age of 94, is of him making an entrance at a birthday party in Malibu for the producer Jerry Weintraub. This was a party overflowing…
WUNDERKIND MEETS LEGEND: REMEMBERING PETER BOGDANOVICH
Avidly listening to the legendary director Otto Preminger in his Detroit hotel suite in 1971 as he recounted acerbic tales of an old Hollywood slipping into the sunset from the man who had made such classics as Laura and Anatomy…
Tagged with: Book Soup, Laura, Orson Welles, Otto Preminger, Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show, The Sopranos
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Ron Base Writes 