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Marlon Will Love It: My (Hollywood) Life. Part One.

Posted on February 12, 2013 by ronbase — Leave a comment

The arrival of the annual Vanity Fair magazine Hollywood edition and the constant drumbeat of Academy Awards season always takes me back to that galaxy so far far away from where I live now–Los Angeles and my so-called Hollywood years. This…

The Legendary Watering Holes Have All Dried Up

Posted on February 23, 2012 by ronbase — 6 Comments

Back in another mist-shrouded time when I was single, I always took dates to Bistro 990 in downtown Toronto. With its arched ceilings and pale gold walls, you could believe for a few hours (aided by a glass of wine)…

Me and the Duke

Posted on November 15, 2011 by ronbase — 2 Comments

In 1975, I went down to Newport Beach, California to interview John Wayne at the rambling seaside bungalow where he had lived for ten years. Wayne promptly pumped me full of tequila, a drink I had never had before, and…