Orson Welles

...magazine's legendary, fearsome film critic Pauline Kael set the cat among the pigeons when she claimed that Herman Mankiewicz, and not Orson Welles, deserved most of the credit for Citizen Kane. Kael was never afraid to take on cinema's...

In this article: Herman J Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, Citizen Kane, William Randolph Hearst, RKO, John Dillinger, Hollywood, and Macbeth

...equally notorious hoax biographer Clifford Irving (played by Richard Gere in "The Hoax" in 2007) for the book "Fake!" Additionally, Orson Welles made a documentary about him, "F For Fake." Temple hopes to shoot his movie -- also called...

In this article: Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, To Catch a Thief, Richard Gere, The Hoax, Sex Pistols, and F for Fake

...category has been a breeding ground for fresh new voices, launching careers and solidifying the legacy of writers as diverse as Orson Welles, Billy Wilder and Paddy Chayefsky. But this year the category looks as thin as a supermodel...

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Nov. 1, 1959: Orson Welles says he turned down an offer to pose as a genius on a TV quiz show, explaining that he knew nothing about baseball and would miss all such questions. A producer told him: "We're not going to ask you any questions...

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING NEW YORK-No posters or photographs of Orson Welles hang in the living room of his eldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder. His memory is preserved, imperfectly, through a shelf of books that...

In this article: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Falstaff, Manhattan, In My Father's Shadow Bogdanovich, The Third Man, and Citizen Kane

Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 30, 1938, the radio play "The War of the Worlds," starring Orson Welles, aired on CBS. (The live drama, which employed fake breaking news reports, panicked some listeners who thought the portrayal of a...

In this article: Martha Graham, Mitsubishi Estate Co., New York City, Department of Education, Appalachian Spring, New York Daily News, Sherman Silver Purchase Act, and The War of the Worlds

...plantation to escort her to the season's big societal balls, parties she must attend in order to gain her aunt's inheritance. Orson Welles, another great name from the ghosts of Oscars past, is also starting to turn up prominently this...

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...originally aired. The broadcast begins on Oct 30 at 8pm EST. By Jason Kottke • Oct 28, 2009 at 02:55 pm • Me and Orson Welles movies Orson Welles radio War of the Worlds The best way to get a sense of what kottke.org is all about is to...

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...of worry-lined titans. Maybe you shouldn't step in the Turd Man, Leo Twist of Lime … Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator and Orson Welles in The Third Man. Photograph: PR/Ronald Grant Archive Hold on to something firm and reliable, please...

In this article: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Third Man, Tobey Maguire, Vienna, Graham Greene, Carol Reed, and Trevor Howard

...the question: Could the mass hysteria of the 1938 "War of the Worlds" scandal, in which a Halloween radio drama orchestrated by actor Orson Welles was mistaken for a real announcement of Martians landing in New Jersey, still take place in the...

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