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Down and Out in Beverly Hills: Jogging With Eartha Kitt, Lunch With Zsa Zsa Gabor, Escaping Fire With A (Half) Naked Blonde…

Posted on April 2, 2014 by ronbase — 2 Comments

Memories of my years spent down and out in Beverly Hills flooded back the other day when I read that the town is celebrating its hundredth anniversary. The Westside Los Angeles enclave, formerly a bean field transformed in the 1920s…

Chasing Plummer

Posted on August 15, 2012 by ronbase — Leave a comment

I’m not certain exactly when I became so fascinated with Christopher Plummer. It may have been as a teenager when I got up at six one morning and drove to Stratford to line up at the Festival Theatre for rush…

Old Geezers Save The World (For Now)

Posted on January 4, 2012 by ronbase — Leave a comment

Over the holiday I found myself back in Theatre Eight at the Varsity Cinema in downtown Toronto for the film version of John Le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. That theatre was the larger of the two auditoriums that constituted…