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…
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Ron Base Writes 