Orson Welles

Orson Welles

Orson Welles news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Orson Welles performances. According to Wikipedia: George Orson Welles was an American theater and film producer and director, and a theater, radio and film actor. Welles... [more]

Orson Welles news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Orson Welles performances. According to Wikipedia: George Orson Welles was an American theater and film producer and director, and a theater, radio and film actor. Welles first gained notoriety for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Adapted to sound like a contemporary news broadcast, it panicked a large number of listeners. Welles and his biographers subsequently claimed he was exposing the gullibility of American audiences in the tense preamble to the Second World War. In the mid-Thirties his New York theater adaptations of a voodoo Macbeth and a contemporary Julius Caesar became legendary. Welles was also a practiced magician, starring in troop variety spectacles in the war years. During this period he became a serious political activist and commentator through journalism, radio and public appearances closely associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1941, he co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in Citizen Kane, most often chosen in polls of film critics as one of the greatest films ever made.

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I would have never thought that a period piece about Orson Welles directed by Dazed and Confused's Richard Linklater would be any good, but I was wrong. Me and Orson Welles is Linklater's latest film, a very intimate portrait of Orson Welles (played by Christian McKay) and his work (meaning both...  
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Everyone knows who and what Orson Welles was. That should be enough to get you interested in Richard Linklater's newest film, in which relative newcomer Christian McKay plays the gregarious Welles himself.  
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by Anthony Kaufman (September 6, 2008) Not only can few Toronto attendees pronounce the name of this year's opening night film "Passchendaele," a Canadian WWI epic, but few among us have actually seen it. So much for a rousing start. Rather than major big-budget works (although the Coen...  
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Long day tonight on about three hours sleep, but somehow James and I managed to push through to make it to both the party for Richard Linklater's film Me and Orson Welles and the Midnight Madness screening of Detroit Metal City. The Orson Welles party was great by my personal film fest standards...  
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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with El Chivo's latest batch from Toronto! The new Linklater movie, ME & ORSON WELLES in particular sounds like a stand-out and even though Ritchie's ROCKNROLLA appears to be same old ...  
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But when a friend passed along a Robert Kaplow novel, "Me and Orson Welles," which focused on the whirlwind events leading up to the 1937 Mercury Theatre ...  
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Director Richard Linklater and actor Zac Efron held court at their party for " Me and Orson Welles ," screening as a Special Presentation in Toronto.  
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Zac Efron and co-star Claire Danes arrive at the Me and Orson Welles Premiere held at the Ryerson Theatre during the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada on Friday.Actor Christian McKay and director/producer Richard Linklater also posed for photographers on the red carpet...  
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LA Times’ Patrick Goldstein goes ass over elbow for Me and Orson Welles, to which he was treated to a sneak preview.  He also provides a handy clip with Zac Efron singing. The Welles here played by Christian McKay is a lot like the young Welles we’ve seen in Citizen Kane and I always wondered if...  
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The school dorm in Woodstock, Ill., where "War of the Worlds" broadcaster Orson Welles once slept is facing demolition, former residents say.  
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From director Richard Linklater comes the story of a whirlwind week in 1937 New York City when a young aspiring actor (Zac Efron) is thrown into the middle o...OH NO!! found this 15 hours ago on www.youtube.com Find more top entertainment news, videos, and blogs on ShowHype: Movies, Zac Efron...  
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Zac Efron's Existence Poisons Good Name of Orson Welles Casting Atrocity / Dustin Rowles I am loathe to make a sitcom-level joke about how unlikely it is you'd ever read a sentence containing the names of both Zac Efron and Orson Welles in it, but in this case, it's warranted, if only...  
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Do you remember what she did with Igby? But at least Steve Martin gave her a taste of her own Shopgirl medicine. Me and Orson Welles debuts next Friday at ...  
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From Left: Orson Welles as Police Captain Hank Quinlan and Charlton Heston as Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas in Touch of Evil. Directed by Orson Welles, USA, 1958; 112m.  
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Betty Suarez...born to be wild? The Mode assistant ( America Ferrera ) unleashes her inner biker chick when the ABC comedy Ugly Betty returns Sept. 25: After a model skips out on a photo shoot, Betty hops on a motorcycle to replace her. ''She handles ...  
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