In the years I lived in Los Angeles, I occasionally hung out at a legendary West Hollywood eatery called Barney’s Beanery. Mostly, I sat with screenwriters in late middle age, all of us grumbling about the state of a movie…
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The Guy Who Fired Robert Redford (and Forever Changed Movies)
When I did that sort of thing for a living, one of my favorite people to interview was the producer Richard Zanuck, who died of a heart attack last week at the age of seventy-seven. Zanuck was stiff and formal, handsome…
Tagged with: A Few Good Men, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Compulsion, Dark Shadows, Darryl F. Zanuck, David Brown, Doctor Doolittle, Driving Miss Daisy, Hello Dolly, Jaws, Joel Grey, Johnny Depp, Lili Fini Zanuck, M*A*S*H, Paul Newman, Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Zanuck, Robert Redford, Star!, Steven Spielberg, The French Connection, The Sound of Music, The Sting, The Verdict, Twentieth Century Fox
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Shooting The Wounded
Critics, it is said, come down from the hills after the battle is over and shoot the wounded. For the better part of the 1980s, I shot the wounded as the movie critic for The Toronto Star, Canada’s largest circulation newspaper. Even…
Tagged with: Bonnie and Clyde, Clyde Gilmour, Jaws, Jay Scott, Kenneth Tynan, Marin Scorsese, Pauline Kael, Raging Bull, Steven Spielberg, Toronto Star, Toronto Telegram
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Ron Base Writes 