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When Mackenzie Phillips was fired from ‘One Day at a Time’

Posted on September 26, 2009 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – Mackenzie Phillips has written a memoir titled “High On Arrival” in which she says that she had an incestuous relationship with her father, John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas. Family members have fallen … Continue reading →

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Recalling Renee on her birthday

Posted on November 21, 2008 by admin

‘Your sweet and shiny eyes are like the stars above Laredo, like meat and potatoes to me. In my sweet dreams we are in a bar and it’s your birthday, drinking salty margaritas … ‘  

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Recalling … lunch with Richard Jaeckel in Detroit

Posted on September 19, 2007 by admin

By Ray Bennett The London Chop House in Detroit, Michigan, was a favorite spot for celebrity interviews on the publicity circuit, which was how I came to share a table one day in 1973 with Jo Don Baker and Richard … Continue reading →

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Like Gregory Peck, on my birthday, ‘Above all, life!’

Posted on April 5, 2007 by admin

By Ray Bennett Gregory Peck sent me this postcard from Paris in 1996. We shared the same birthday, April 5, and once we exchanged cards. He wrote: “This French graffiti describes perfectly how it feels to be 80 all of a … Continue reading →

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