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...this about his radio work because, unlike the theatrical productions that vanished on closing night, nearly all of his important radio shows are preserved and available. Some of the best "Mercury" epi-sodes can be ordered from Radio Spirits; so can Welles? splendid 3-1/2hr. ver-sion of "Les Mis?rables," produced the summer before the Mercury went on the air. Many more shows - 18 of 22 "Mercury?s" and 29 of 56 episodes of its sponsored successor, "Campbell Playhouse" - can be heard with a RealPlayer attach-ment on your current entertainment furniture of choice. This is a plea...
...Having seen how radio worked, he struck a deal with the Mutual network for a dramatization of "Les Mis?rables" which he would adapt and narrate, as well as play Jean Valjean (to Martin Gabel?s Javert); it would be aired in half-hour segments on seven consecutive Friday nights. This show is a must-hear: a brilliant transmutation of the novel, through sound alone, into powerful and sensitive feeling. (It was also one of Welles? favorite sto-ries; he would repeat it on "Campbell Playhouse," this time as Javert with Wal-ter Huston as Valjean, and in a parody with...
...CHANCE Remember that Welles was running the Mercury stage op-eration, starring in many of its productions and guesting on radio shows. "Les Mis?rables" came just a month after "The Cradle Will Rock." The "War of the Worlds" episode preceded the Broadway opening of the Mercury?s "Danton?s Death" by three nights. Before the sponsor agreed to move "Campbell Playhouse" from New York to Los Angeles, where Welles was preparing his first Hollywood film, he pulled a weekly transcontinental commute - logging, according to one account, an amazing 311,245 air miles and earning a frequent flyer award...
...sewer chase should alert you that Dragon is a distant descendant of Les MisErables?with Liujian as Jean Valjean, Richard as Javert, Jessica as the prostitute Fantine and Jessica's daughter as Cosette. What's missing here is any attempt at literacy; the script's garish dialogue seems less written than spray painted. Richard spouts a lot of generic tough-guy dialogue ("Bring him to me alive; I'll kill him myself,") while Liujian barely speaks at all ("I'm not your type?" Jessica poutily asks him, and our monastic hero replies, "I don't have type...
...harsh remoteness of the outback, and the pioneers' struggle to survive it, are more than a memory in these regions. "The Territory remains an area of adventure," says Les Pilton, proprietor of the Barrow Creek Hotel, who took in the distraught Lees until police arrived three hours later. "It's one of the last frontiers. Part of that is that there is a danger; it's life on the very edge." Distances are almost unimaginable to outsiders: once a week Pilton makes a 570-km round trip just to go to the bank, or for a haircut. Roads...