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HEAVENLY BODIES AND THE DANE: Remembering Actor Lawrence Dane

Posted on March 25, 2022 by ronbase — 2 Comments

Larry Dane, or Lawrence of the Dane, as I dubbed him, was always a bit of a renegade in the Canadian film industry. Over the years I knew him, I often thought Larry (actually, Lawrence Zahab) never got the credit…

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“I’m Getting A Pulse”: My Brilliant (Acting) Career

Posted on November 6, 2013 by ronbase — Leave a comment

Now that awards season is upon us–an Oscar to Robert Redford for his incredible performance in All Is Lost; take the statuette Cate Blanchett for what you accomplished in Blue Jasmine–it is time to reveal the unsung details of my…

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I Should Have Known Better: The Wildly Improbable Story of Heavenly Bodies

Posted on September 12, 2012 by ronbase — 13 Comments

Last weekend, at the Canadian Film Centre’s annual barbecue in Toronto, I ran into a couple of old friends who, although they didn’t realize it, were unique among the more than two thousand industry types flowing through the old E.P.…

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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…

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