Word: orson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole story cannot be presented in one night any more than can Wagner's four-day Ring cycle. The tale takes four plays to tell, but each one is self-sufficient and intelligible by itself Attempts to conflate two or more plays have been only partly successful-as Orson Welles discovered in his 1965 film version, Chimes at Midnight...
...demonstrators were exhorted to press for worldwide disarmament by speakers ranging from Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow Coretta to Movie Director Orson Welles. The Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., long a prominent antiwar activist, declared the beginning of "the human century" and said, "The first order of the human century is to freeze the weapons so they won't burn the people...
...Spielberg, 34, he too was dealing with-and for-legends last week. Making a long-distance telephone bid of $60,500 to an auction at Sotheby's in New York City, Spielberg acquired that most famous of cinematic props, the symbolic sled Rosebud from Orson Welles' masterpiece, Citizen Kane. It was the highest amount of money ever paid for a piece of movie memorabilia, but Spielberg was unfazed. "It would have been an insult," he said, "if it had gone for only $20,000"-the expected price tag. "Rosebud," promises the hot hit-making director, "will go over...
...Orson Welles, 66, on why he does not pray: "I don't want to bore God. God is an artist...
...audience for this movie, moreover, is not entirely accustomed to watching subtitled films--this is being shown at a Sack Theater, not at the Orson Welles. Das Boot is being promoted as a movie that happens to come from Germany, not as a "foreign film," with all the connotations of all-art-and-no-plot that the term carries for American. If the same audiences who like action-packed movies are willing to read subtitles and be depressed, Das Boot will be a hit in America...