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Chester, who pulled an Orson Wells as writer, director, and star of this film, has given America a gay love story for the “Love Actually” crowd. If you like clean, beautiful New York apartments and well-kempt men who look like they just walked out of a Calvin Klein ad, then Chester’s film will entertain you… for a few minutes...
DIED. DENNIS WEAVER, 81, gangly cowpoke actor best known as the limping sidekick in Gunsmoke and as the titular Manhattan cowboy cop in the 1970s series McCloud; in Ridgway, Colo. The prolific Weaver had leading roles in 40 films, including Orson Welles' Touch of Evil and the 1971 highway thriller Duel, directed by an up-and-comer named Steven Spielberg. A committed environmentalist, Weaver spent the past 16 years living in an Earthship--a 10,000-sq.-ft. house made of tin cans and tires...
...ORSON'S SHADOW, by Austin Pendleton...
...This play, about a notorious, disastrous teaming of Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier, is that rarity, a behind-the-scenes look at famous people that acually rings true. An account of Welles' attempt to direct Olivier in a production of Ionesco's Rhinoceros is not just good showbiz dish but a real insight into two strains of artistic...
...from studio hacks for hire. He also had the critical misfortune to direct the Oscar-winning Sound of Music, that melting pile of Alpine slush that was for a long time the most popular movie ever released. But Wise, who broke in as a film editor-earning praise for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and unjustified calumny for recutting The Magnificent Ambersons after Welles abandoned it-mastered over the years every imaginable movie genre and made at least half a dozen pictures that are among the best of their breed, including The Set-Up, a tragic boxing tale whose running time...