Every year about this time I think of Cannes, El Sid, and six green beans. El Sid was my nick-name for Sid Adilman, the legendary Toronto Star entertainment reporter. For years in May, El Sid and I would head for the…
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Cannes, El Sid, and Six Green Beans
Tagged with: Afred Hitchcock, Cannes, Cary Grant, Chet Baker, Cote d'Azur, France, Gore Vidal, Grace Kelly, Hotel Carlton, Hotel du Cap, Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, Moulin des Mougins, Norman Mailer, Paul Newman, Riviera, Sid Adilman, Terry Jones, To Catch A Thief, Toronto Star, Toronto Telegram
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I Tripped Lauren Bacall
This is how I came to trip a Hollywood legend. First of all, let’s set the scene: It is opening night at Detroit’s grand old Fisher Theatre. A new musical based on the classic 1950 Bette Davis movie, All About…
Tagged with: Adolph Green, All About Eve, Applause, Bette Davis, Betty Comden, Broadway, Charles Strouse, Detroit, Fisher Theatre, Humphrey Bogart, Key Largo, Lauren Bacall, Lee Adams, Len Cariou, Margo Channing, Ray Bennett, The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, Toronto Telegram
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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 