Long before he was notoriously tried and acquitted of murdering his wife, when he was at the top of his career, the actor Robert Blake was waiting in his trailer when I got to the set of Second-Hand Hearts, the…
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SCANDAL AT THE SAVOY: The Rogues Gallery Of Characters
Scandal at the Savoy will be published March 25, 2023. You can order the second installment in the Priscilla Tempest Mysteries HERE HERE
Tagged with: Diana Dors, Laurence Olivier, London. John Gielgud, Noel Coward, Reggie Kray, Ronnie Kray, Savoy Hotel
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THE SMARTEST GUY IN THE ROOM
Back in the days when I was writing about television, if I needed some cogent, insightful conversation about the CBC or broadcasting in general, I would drop into Peter Herrndorf’s Toronto office at the corner of Bay and College streets.…
Tagged with: CBC, Claire Speed, Eva Czigler, National Arts Centre, Toronto Life
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A Farewell to Sanibel
I lost it on Sanibel Island the other day visiting the yellow cottage that used to be Gene’s Books. For years, I did book signings in the garden behind the cottage or else in the bookshop itself, surrounded by—drowning in!—the…
HOW I HELPED MAKE ROCK ‘N ROLL HISTORY
A one-day rock festival was held at Toronto’s Varsity Stadium Sep. 13, 1969, less than a month after the Woodstock Music Festival took place on a farm outside Bethel, New York. One festival quickly became iconic. The other was mostly…
Tagged with: Bo diddley, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, D.A. Pennebaker, Gene Vincent, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jim Morrison, John Brower, John Lennon, Ken Walker, Light My Fire, Little Richard, Plastic Ono Band, Revival 69, Rolling Stone, Ron Chapman, The Doors, Toronto, Varsity Stadium, Woodstock, Yko Ono
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Lost in the Star
Last night I dreamed I went back to the Toronto Star newsroom again. I step into the lobby at One Yonge Street and then take the elevator to the fifth floor. In my dream, Conrad Black is on the elevator.…
Tagged with: Gina Mallet, Jim Bawden, Peter Goddard, Sid Adilman, The Toronto Star
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Evolution of a Novel: How Death at the Savoy Came to Be
Susan Walker, former editor of Quill and Quire, who also served as the Toronto Star’s book editor, and no slouch when it comes to all things literary, has written a wonderful piece about how my new novel (with Prudence Emery),…
Tagged with: Death at the Savoy, Douglas & McIntyre, Nanaimo Girl, Prudence Emery, Quill and Quire, Ron Base, Susan Walker, The Sanibel Sunset Detective, Toronto Star
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Ron Base Writes 