A one-day rock festival was held at Toronto’s Varsity Stadium Sep. 13, 1969, less than a month after the Woodstock Music Festival took place on a farm outside Bethel, New York. One festival quickly became iconic. The other was mostly…
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HOW I HELPED MAKE ROCK ‘N ROLL HISTORY
Tagged with: Bo diddley, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, D.A. Pennebaker, Gene Vincent, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jim Morrison, John Brower, John Lennon, Ken Walker, Light My Fire, Little Richard, Plastic Ono Band, Revival 69, Rolling Stone, Ron Chapman, The Doors, Toronto, Varsity Stadium, Woodstock, Yko Ono
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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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“I’m Getting A Pulse”: My Brilliant (Acting) Career
Now that awards season is upon us–an Oscar to Robert Redford for his incredible performance in All Is Lost; take the statuette Cate Blanchett for what you accomplished in Blue Jasmine–it is time to reveal the unsung details of my…
And Then Ann-Margret Kissed Me…
I have known many publicists over the years, but I have never known a publicist like Prudence Emery. Wild, wildly lovable, highly intelligent, no-nonsense, a combination gypsy, therapist, drinking buddy, and den mother, I covered more movies with Pru than…
Tagged with: Ann-Margret, Bobby Darin, Broadway, Brockville, Bruce Dern, Bye Bye Birdie, Carnal Knowleledge, Elvis Presley, Kitten With A Whip, Middle Age Crazy, musical, Pamela Tiffin, Pat Boone, Prudence Emery, Rogers and Hammerstein, State Fair, Tom Ewell, Toronto, Viva La Vegas
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Je Suis Québécois (Except I Am Being Held Prisoner In Milton, Ontario)
When my wife and I moved to Montreal, the Separatist government of Bernard Landry was in power. I never felt so Canadian. Living in Quebec, you are not exposed nearly so much to the incessant barrage of American culture most English…
Tagged with: Bernard Landry, Brian Mulroney, Charlevoix, Fleuve St-Laurent, Gaspé, Jean Charest, Leila Basen, Milton, Montreal, Mordecai Richler, Mount Royal, Nick Auf der Maur, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Old Town, Ontario, Parti Québécois, Pauline Marois, Place Jacques Cartier, Quebec City, Separtists, snow, sovereignty, St. Lawrence River, St. Urbain Street, Terence McKenna, the Plateau, Toronto, Winston Churchill Pub
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Old Geezers Save The World (For Now)
Over the holiday I found myself back in Theatre Eight at the Varsity Cinema in downtown Toronto for the film version of John Le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. That theatre was the larger of the two auditoriums that constituted…
Tagged with: baby boomers, Caesar and Cleopatra, Christopher Plummer, Four Seasons Hotel, George Christy, Heavenly Bodies, Paul McCartney, Shakespeare, Shaw, Soldier, Spy, Stratford, Tailor, The Rolling Stones, The Tempest, Tinker, Tony Bennett, Toronto, U2, Varsity Theatre
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Ron Base Writes 