I never met Alfred Hitchcock, but I did interview Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh about the making of Psycho, the seminal thriller for which both actors are best remembered, and which is currently the subject of a breathtakingly wrong-headed and…
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Hitchcock: The Gentleman Prefers Blondes
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The Puzzle Without A Solution
I remember the day clearly. Fifty years ago, in the time when news still arrived in newspapers, the afternoon edition of the Toronto Telegram fell onto our small town Ontario doorstep reporting that Marilyn Monroe, age thirty-six, had been found dead at…
Tagged with: Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Blonde Bombshell, Bobby Kennedy, Brentwood, Cary Grant, Chicago, Clark Gable, Diana Dors, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How To Marry A Millionaire, Jack Lemmon, Jane Mansfield, JFK, Joe DiMaggio, John Kennedy, Mamie Van Doren, Marilyn Monroe, Michigan Avenue, Monkey Business, River of No Return, Seward Johnson, Sex Symbol, Some Like It Hot, suicide, The Misfits, The Seven Year Itch, The Toronto Telegram, Tony Curtis, Twentieth Century Fox
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The Guy Who Fired Robert Redford (and Forever Changed Movies)
When I did that sort of thing for a living, one of my favorite people to interview was the producer Richard Zanuck, who died of a heart attack last week at the age of seventy-seven. Zanuck was stiff and formal, handsome…
Tagged with: A Few Good Men, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Compulsion, Dark Shadows, Darryl F. Zanuck, David Brown, Doctor Doolittle, Driving Miss Daisy, Hello Dolly, Jaws, Joel Grey, Johnny Depp, Lili Fini Zanuck, M*A*S*H, Paul Newman, Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Zanuck, Robert Redford, Star!, Steven Spielberg, The French Connection, The Sound of Music, The Sting, The Verdict, Twentieth Century Fox
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Ron Base Writes 