Word: orson
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...almost all of them working in Hollywood?give themselves. If the awards go to good movies (like Shakespeare in Love), that's nice. If they go to terrific ones (like Platoon), that's a coincidence. If they go to great ones, that's a mistake. Consider Citizen Kane: Orson Welles' masterpiece lost in 1942 to How Green Was My Valley...
...hype here: there are nearly 11 hours of buried treasures, most of them from the first half century of movies, all rescued and restored by nonprofit institutions. Among the finds in this handsome four-disc set are footage of Orson Welles' 1936 "Voodoo" Macbeth and Marian Anderson's 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial; a 1901 trick film transferred from paper prints; a 1905 ride on a New York City subway; such avant-garde classics as The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) and Joseph Cornell's Rose Hobart (1936), a work with such power to shock that Salvador...
...veterans, Orson Swindle, tells voters of the two years he spent sleeping next to John McCain in a Vietnam POW camp...
...inspiration, fed up with various forms of prostitution in American life. In Blitzstein's reading of the social climate, virtuous girls were compelled to sell their bodies and young men forced to sweat it out in factories while the fat cats leaned back and watched their money grow. Orson Welles (Angus MacFadyen) directed the musical under the aegis of the Federal Theater Project, a government initiative intended to provide work and keep culture going in rough times. But anything approaching Blitzstein's socialist sentiment wasn't welcome as the Red Scare heated up and suspicious eyes turned to the nation...