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Tag Archives: Orson Welles
citizen candy kane: sums of discrepancies
After foisting one over on the low threshold of common sense that characterizes the American public with his radio adaptation of H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds, a kind of national exercise in mass hysteria and trauma that conveyed … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel Hopsicker, Dr. Maurice Bernstein, Edward Bernays, Edward R. Murrow, Frank Stanton, Franz Kafka, h.g. wells war of the worlds, Hadley Cantril, Hedda Hopper, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Ivy Lee, louella parsons, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orson Welles, Orson Welles Citizen Kane, Walter Lippmann, William Randolph Hearst
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illusions of fiction
Orson Welles. The prodigy. It is only rarely that the child prodigy converts into an adult prodigy, in fact statistically not very promising, but Welles pierced the prodigal ordeal of circumstances into an association with real achievement. The crowning of … Continue reading
prodigal radio: mercury in midtown
Orson Welles. The baggy trickster who scared the radio audience at 23, and in infuriated the Hearst empire at 25, with Citizen Kane. …In the mid 1930′s, America was still far down in the Depression; as a time for launching … Continue reading
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Tagged Archibald MacLeish, George Bernard Shaw, John Houseman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles, Orson Welles Mercury Theater, Orson Welles The March of Time, Orson Welles The Shadow, thomas dekker, Thornton Wilder
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instant prodigy mix: just add talent and stir
Orson Welles was a leading man at 18, scared the radio audience silly at 23, and infuriated the Hearst empire at 25, …. How is it that Orson Welles came to be such a figure of international fascination? Part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Woollcott, Dr. Maurice Bernstein, Gate Theatre Dublin, Hilton Edwards, Howard Koch, Katherine Cornell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orson Welles, Roger Hill Todd School, Thornton Wilder, Todd School
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keeping hansel and gretel on a short leash
They exist. And we know that this invisible architecture of the labyrinth can be very real and almost impossible to get out of. In the mythical Greek tale, Icarus was able to fly out on some crafted wings, but still … Continue reading
Utopia: stories of the days to come
Utopia is not exactly the same as the Messianic Kingdom where the wolf dwells with the lamb and the leopard lies down with the kid. Its peaceable, but only through divine intervention. The other Utopia, the secular one, is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Aldous Huxley Brave New World, alexander korda, George Orwell, H.G. Wells Men Like Gods, h.g. wells the time machine, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orson Welles, Orson Welles Mercury Theater, Orson Welles War of the Worlds
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kane: “auteur theory”
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes : … American cinema’s one-time enfante terrible, and one of Hollywood’s most enigmatic stars—making him one of my all-time favorites—we take a look at some graphic expressions of his most famous film, the European-inflected CITIZEN KANE, … Continue reading
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Tagged Francois Truffaut, Francois truffaut "auteur theory", french new wave cinema, Hedda Hopper, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Howard Hughes, Jean-Luc Godard, jesse marinoff reyes, John Houseman, Joseph Pulitzer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orson Welles, Orson Welles Citizen Kane, Robert McCormick, William Randolph Hearst
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shapes of things
Toward the middle of the 1890′s H.G. Wells began writing reviews, articles and stories. But he was not consciously starting a literary career. After all, he was a science instructor. But, an illness forced him out of teaching, and he … Continue reading
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Tagged Fabian Society, G.K. Chesterton, H.G. Wells, Julian Huxley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Orson Welles, Oscar Wilde, science fiction history, society for psychical research, Thorstein Veblen
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mid life crisis: faulty time machine
Shapes of things. Fabian socialism. Martians sucking blood from humans for nourishment. H.G. Wells emergence as a novelist proper belongs to the period between the turn of the century and the end of its first decade, when he was able … Continue reading
politically sophisticated thrillers
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) … Eric Ambler (1909-1998)! British writer Ambler is widely regarded—with Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene—as one of the pioneers of the politically sophisticated (especially espionage) thriller. Ambler published 19 … Continue reading
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Tagged Alec Guinness, alexander korda, anthony george, Arnold Bennett, charles rodda, david lean director, e. mcKnight kauffer, eliot reed novels, eric ambler, glynis johns, Graham Greene, hammond innes, jesse marinoff reyes, joseph cotton, nicholas monsarrat, Orson Welles, orson welles mercury company, rank organization, raoul walsh, sebastian cabot, Somerset Maugham, Somerset Maughan
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