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),…
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Evolution of a Novel: How Death at the Savoy Came to Be
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DEATH AT THE SAVOY COMES TO THE MOVIES
Prudence Emery and I are delighted that Los Angeles-based The Ponti Company has acquired movie and TV rights to Death at the Savoy, even before its publication May 28. Here’s what producers Sasha Alexander-Ponti and Edoardo Ponti had to say…
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FINALLY, A BOOK!
Death at the Savoy arrived on my doorstep early this morning. It’s been a long but mostly delightful journey getting here, in close company with my old friend and collaborator, Prudence Emery. For an author there is nothing quite like…
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HEAVENLY BODIES AND THE DANE: Remembering Actor Lawrence Dane
Larry Dane, or Lawrence of the Dane, as I dubbed him, was always a bit of a renegade in the Canadian film industry. Over the years I knew him, I often thought Larry (actually, Lawrence Zahab) never got the credit…
PETERTHE GREAT: REMEMBERING PETER GODDARD
Not only was Peter Goddard for many years Canada’s pre-eminent music critic, he was also a dear friend who I admired tremendously. Peter had been fighting cancer for the past year or so. True to his contrary nature, he refused…
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COMES THE BOOGEYMAN: Russia and a Lifetime of Nightmares
I’ve spent a lifetime worrying about Russia. When I was a kid, it was Communism (out to take over the world!), Sputnik (they were in space first!), the constant threat of nuclear war (in case of nuclear attack huddle under…
Tagged with: Berlin, Berlin Wall, Cuba Missile Crisis, East Germany, Eric Hansen, From Russia With Love, James Bond, John lew Carre, Khrushchev, Nazis, nuclear war, Russia, Sputnik, Stasi, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, Ukraine, USSR, Vladimir Putin
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The Ghostbuster: Ivan Reitman Remembered
When I first met Ivan Reitman, the most successful commercial filmmaker Canada ever produced who has died at the age of 75, it was back in the dark days when he was producing low-budget exploitation movies. I have this memory…
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CALL ME MEAT
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,…
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Ron Base Writes 