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22 hours ago · Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin faced extensive editorial issues and multiple versions due to disagreements between Welles and producer Louis Dolivet. The film's complicated history includes three radio ...
3 days ago · If you read the last post I produced on the best 5 years of Orson Welles’ life, you would just be scratching the surface of his career if you thought he arrived in Hollywood like a man on fire. But after a smear campaign by William Randolph Hearst and some really underhanded dealings by him, (blackmailing all of the major studio heads in Hollywood to raise a million dollars to buy the negative print of ‘Citizen Kane’ and burn it, or he would release all the ‘private and dirty little ...
2 days ago · Orson Welles, St. Michael and Chartres Cathedral “Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.” By K.V. Turley. Often hailed as one of the greatest filmmakers that ever lived, Orson Welles is also one of the most frustrating.
22 hours ago · Orson Welles relished the role of Harry Lime. Here is a character who for more than an hour—and two-thirds of The Third Man ’s running time—has been talked up, eulogized, chided, and ...
4 days ago · The cast, a mix of NYCT veterans and first-timers, is solid up and down; six actors play two roles apiece, while three actors remain in one role: Salamone is a worthy King Henry IV, Antal makes a fine Prince Hal, but Michalski steals the show, as he should, as Falstaff, a meaty, mighty character made famous by Orson Welles in the 1965 film Chimes at Midnight.
22 hours ago · IT HAS been half a century since lanky thumper Mick Fleetwood snapped up California dreamers Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to join the band that bore his name and turned a blues outfit into full-steam superstars. Ethereal, cloak-clad Stevie – with her witchy twitch and Orson-Welles-on-helium contralto warble – was 27 at the time.
2 days ago · Nero Wolfe is a brilliant, obese and eccentric fictional armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky.
