It was not so much a red shirt as it was a cherry red shirt that I was wearing when Barbara Walters walked in for our interview. Looking back all these years later, I cringe at the thought of that…
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With Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels, Making a Disaster
By the time I arrived at Studio 8H on the eighth floor of New York’s Rockefeller Centre to profile the young Toronto-born producer Lorne Michaels, what was then called NBC’s Saturday Night (later changed to Saturday Night Live) was…
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Asking Bob Hope A (Dumb) Question
The first time I laid eyes on Bob Hope he was riding on the back of a convertible down the main street of Wapakoneta, Ohio in September 1969. An entertainment icon looking for a reporter with a dumb question. Luckily,…
Tagged with: Bob Hope, Dolores Hope, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, NBC, Neil Armstrong, O'Keefe Centre, Ohio, Toronto, vaudville, Vietnam, Wapakoneta
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Ron Base Writes 