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WHAT ROSALIE LIKED, EVERYONE LIKED

Posted on November 29, 2021 by ronbase — Leave a comment

When I phoned Rosalie Trombley, at the time one of the most powerful figures in the music business, I did not expect her to agree to talk to me. Writing for the Windsor Star, I had been something of a…

Tagged with: "Bennie and the Jets", "What's Going On", Anne Murray, Bill Drake, Bob Seger, CKLW radio, Detroit, Elton John, Gordon Lightfoot, Marvin Gaye, Rosalie Trombley, the Big 8, The Guess Who, Weekend Magazine, Windsor
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The Forgotten Comedian: Remembering Mort Sahl

Posted on October 28, 2021 by ronbase — Leave a comment

When I encountered him, Mort Sahl was opening at The Top Hat, a Windsor, Ontario nightclub better known for take-my-wife-please comedians than it was for Sahl’s cutting-edge brand of satire. At that point, in the early 1970s, the Montreal-born Sahl…

Tagged with: comedians, Dave Shappelle, Joe Rogan, Mort Sahl, Ontario, Time magazine, Top Hat, Windsor
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Misfits and Inglorious Bastards

Posted on June 4, 2014 by ronbase — Leave a comment

I went back to my past a few weeks ago–and discovered they were tearing It down. The past had been safely housed for over forty years inside the old gray stone monolith that was the Windsor Star on the corner of…

Tagged with: Detroit, Ella Fitzgerald, George Wallace, Hubert Humphrey, Jimmy Hoffa, Lauren Bacall, Neil Armstrong, Ontario, Ray Charles, Teddy Kennedy, The Front Page, Windsor, Windsor Star
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Standing In Airports, Holding A Book, Listening To Stories

Posted on December 21, 2012 by ronbase — Leave a comment

This week a reader of The Sanibel Sunset Detective novels e-mailed me several questions, ending with this one: “Why does a man with ten published books to his credit spend his time hawking a handful of them in an airport?”…

Tagged with: Another Sanibel Sunset Detective, Captiva Island, Chicago, Ford, Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, France, Galapagos Islands, Germany, Hitler, James Patterson, Nazis, Ontario, Pete's Time Out, Sanibel Island, Shanghai, The Sanibel Sunset Detective, Windsor, World War II
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