Avidly listening to the legendary director Otto Preminger in his Detroit hotel suite in 1971 as he recounted acerbic tales of an old Hollywood slipping into the sunset from the man who had made such classics as Laura and Anatomy…
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WUNDERKIND MEETS LEGEND: REMEMBERING PETER BOGDANOVICH
Tagged with: Book Soup, Laura, Orson Welles, Otto Preminger, Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show, The Sopranos
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At Lunch With Orson Welles
Unlike most of the people writing about him on the hundredth anniversary of his life, I actually met Orson Welles. As I stood to shake his hand, I do remember thinking, Wow, here I am shaking the hand of the…
Tagged with: Charlton Heston, Chimes at Midnight, Citizen Kane, John Houseman, John Huston, Ma Maison, Macbeth, Magnificent Ambersons, Michael Maslansky, New Yorker, Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Raymond Burr, Robert Wise, The Lady From Shanghai, The Other Side of the Wind, The Paper Chase, The Sound of Music, The Stranger, The Third Man, Touch of Evil
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Gore Vidal Meets The Dread Ron Base
Gore Vidal in print once called me “the Dread Ron Base, who is appropriately named.” I’m not sure but I think he dissed me because I quoted him as saying he would invade Alberta for its oil, if necessary (“If I were the federal…
Tagged with: Amalfi Coast, Ben-Hur, Cannes Film Festival, Creation, Edgar Box, Gore Vidal, Italy, Joanne Woodward, Johnny Carson, Norman Mailer, Orson Welles, Paul Newman, Ravello, Ryan O'Neal, The Best Man, Tough Guys Don't Dance, Truman Capote
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Ron Base Writes 