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The Ghostbuster: Ivan Reitman Remembered

Posted on February 16, 2022 by ronbase — Leave a comment

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…

The Wallflower at the Orgy Meets Jimmy Stewart

Posted on October 6, 2016 by ronbase — 2 Comments

Toronto writer Marni Jackson has written a novel about celebrity. Rose, the protagonist in Don’t I Know You? keeps having encounters with real-life famous people, the novelist John Updike, actors Bill Murray and Gwyneth Paltrow, singers Joni Mitchell, Leonard…

How I Drove Bill Murray From The Movies

Posted on October 21, 2014 by ronbase — 2 Comments

These days, Bill Murray is everywhere. In Toronto, they had a Bill Murray Day in his honor. Words like “beloved,” and phrases like “national treasure” are used to describe him. There is “Oscar buzz,” as everyone says, around his performance…