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...more than a dozen short story collections spanning 50 years—echoes his own biography, only one story explicitly draws on Updike’s undergraduate experience. A 1963 piece called “The Christian Roommates” centers on the first-year experience of Orson Ziegler, a hopeful pre-med from South Dakota...
...ORSON WELLES CINEMA I: The Harder They Come, St. Louis Blues, 4 7:15 9:15 II: It Happened One NIght 4 7:30 11:15 Destrey Rides Again 5:50 9:30 MIDNITE FRI & SAT Busby Berkeley's The Gang's All Here
...ORSON WELLES CINEMA I: The Harder They Come, St. Louis Blues, 4 7:15 9:15 II: It Happened One NIght 4 7:30 11:15 Destrey Rides Again 5:50 9:30 MIDNITE FRI & SAT Busby Berkeley's The Gang's All Here
...role was as late as 1996, as the piano teacher in Shine, and he starred in a TV version of Beckett's Catastrophe the year he died. He knew so many historical figures - George Bernard Shaw, Edith Evans, Orson Welles - it's hard to keep track; one 1952 note alone manages to mention meetings with Charlie Chaplin, Igor Stravinsky and Noël Coward. Editor Richard Mangan has mostly concentrated on the correspondents with whom Gielgud was intimate - including his mother, his onetime lover Paul Anstee, the actress Irene Worth, photographer and designer Cecil Beaton and the playwright Hugh Wheeler...
From the earliest days of moving pictures, directors have been obsessed with bringing William Shakespeare's Macbeth to the screen. Orson Welles played the tragic king among Stonehenge-like ruins. Akira Kurosawa's murderous medieval lord went down in the most furious fusillade of arrows ever filmed. Roman Polanski, funded by Playboy Productions, filmed Lady Macbeth sleepwalking in the nude...