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...created the voices of notable women for the March of Time. A co-founder with Orson Welles of the Mercury Theater, she helped him perpetrate the 1938 "invasion from Mars" radio broadcast and in 1941 landed the first of her hundred or so screen roles in Citizen Kane (as Kane's mother). An Oscar nominee for five films including Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (she never won), she was best known in recent years as Endora, the waspish mother witch of TV's durable Bewitched series...
...Welles opened its doors officially on April 7, 1969. Sentimental management had selected the day because it came exactly 28 years after a premiere of Citizen Kane; serendipity set the opening two days before the takeover of University Hall. Years earlier, film had been thought of only as an escape, a diversion for a date or an idle afternoon. In time for the '60s, film was already an academic pursuit, a suitable subject for doctoral theses...
...ever went in unctuous, opportunistic triviality, seems to be in the show merely to illustrate an amusing feedback loop between pop and commercial art. In 1962, at the peak of the Batman revival, Ramos got some mileage from painting the masked hero of Bob Kane's comic strip. Four years later, a Batman comic returned the compliment by illustrating a pop exhibition in the Gotham City museum; on the wall were paintings clearly meant to look like Ramos...
Joining Roth at forward were Bobby Kane of Yale and Tom Flemming of Dartmouth. George Kuzmicz of Cornell joined Byrd on defense and Yale's Ken MacKenzie was selected as goalie...
There's a phenomenal selection of films in Cambridge this week. They're biggies--kind of an equivalent to what classical music types call warhorses--including Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, a great movie that critics have built up too much; The Hustler, which seems better and better ("This is Ames, Mister"..."Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool."...); a classic Godard. Everybody knows these films, you can hardly go wrong no matter what you see this week, and the real attraction of the week is Cagney on T.V., so I'll leave space for Farmer Briney...