Word: orson
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...stores are vastly less noisy and vastly better run than the [Orson Welles] theater was," says one resident who asked to remain anonymous. "The new stores are very sensitive to the needs of the neighborhood," she says, "in terms of noise, cleanliness, hygeine, safety and fire laws...
...example, when the Orson Welles Cinema, an independent movie theater located on the corner of Mass. Ave. and Dana St., burned down in the spring of 1986, it was eventually replaced by a host of new high-tech, upscale stores such as Videosmith, Digital Record, Toppers and The Furniture Store...
Ralph Hoagland, who owns the building that once housed the popular movie house, says that competition from USA Cinemas, the chain that has a near-monopoly on Boston-area theaters, prevented the rebuilding of the Orson Welles. "It was hard to get good product," Hoagland says...
...Criterion Collection, from the Voyager Co. in Santa Monica, Calif., turns out the most formidable disc library. Its version of Orson Welles' masterpiece The Magnificent Ambersons contains, among other items, the entire shooting script, a full set of storyboards, and stills of crucial scenes deleted by the studio. The Criterion edition of Blade Runner has a lavish set of designs by "visual futurist" Syd Mead; the disc of 2001 was personally . overseen by Stanley Kubrick and includes almost a thousand pages of essays and production memos. "We're a significant part of an as yet insignificant business," says Voyager...
...have been straightforward. Don Fagenson and David Weiss first met in eighth grade outside a gym teacher's office, where they awaited disciplining. Don's parents were both teachers. David's mother was an actress, and his father was a radio and TV actor who worked with everyone from Orson Welles to Soupy Sales and appeared for a decade as Santa in the Detroit Thanksgiving parade. "We started to worry about his health after there was a bomb threat on his sleigh," David remembers. "Only in Detroit would they want to kill Santa Claus...