This is how I came to trip a Hollywood legend. First of all, let’s set the scene: It is opening night at Detroit’s grand old Fisher Theatre. A new musical based on the classic 1950 Bette Davis movie, All About…
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I Tripped Lauren Bacall
Tagged with: Adolph Green, All About Eve, Applause, Bette Davis, Betty Comden, Broadway, Charles Strouse, Detroit, Fisher Theatre, Humphrey Bogart, Key Largo, Lauren Bacall, Lee Adams, Len Cariou, Margo Channing, Ray Bennett, The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, Toronto Telegram
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That Afternoon With Henry Fonda
In a fit of nostalgia yesterday I pulled John Ford’s 1946 western, My Darling Clementine, off my DVD shelf and watched it on our new fifty-five-inch Sony television screen. Magical: it brings old movies to life again with a sharpness and clarity that…
Tagged with: 12 Angry Men, Abraham Lincoln, Ambassador East Hotel, Chicago, Clarence Darrow, Detroit, Fisher Theatre, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, John Ford, King Vidor, Mr. Roberts, My Darling Clementine, Once Upon A Time in the West, Shirlee Fonda, The Battle of the Bulge, The Grapes of Wrath, The Trial of A. Lincoln, War and Peace, Wyatt Earp
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Ron Base Writes 