Seated on a banquette in a corner of the Savoy Hotel’s iconic American Bar, sipping one of Priscilla’s Buck Fizzes, the celebrated ghosts of the hotel’s legendary past swirl around. The 2022 Savoy is a sleek modern, beautifully run hotel…
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Gone London
The London of Dickens, the London of countless Masterpiece Theatre portrayals, the black and white London of the British movies of my youth—in other words the traditional London that tourists flock here to experience, that London is fast disappearing. At…
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I Can’t Stop Watching: Sex and the TV Drama Revolution
We’ll get to the sex stuff in a moment, but before we do, a brief look back… The first time I visited Los Angeles, I spent a lot of time at Universal Studios. In those days, Universal was a television…
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Ron Base Writes 