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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The Ghostbuster: Ivan Reitman Remembered
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Send In the Rolls-Royce Corniche: Remembering Jerry Weintraub
One of the perks of working for Hollywood producer Jerry Weintraub, who died yesterday at the age of 77, was that he sent his convertible Rolls-Royce Corniche to pick you up at the airport, complete with immaculately uniformed chauffeur.…
With Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels, Making a Disaster
By the time I arrived at Studio 8H on the eighth floor of New York’s Rockefeller Centre to profile the young Toronto-born producer Lorne Michaels, what was then called NBC’s Saturday Night (later changed to Saturday Night Live) was…
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Ron Base Writes 