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...collaboration between the Brattle Street Theater and the Enormous Room promises future venues of Spaghetti Westerns, Orson Welles and Japanese Spy Movies spun to music, found only on M.O.S. night at 567 Mass. Ave. in Central Square...
Sixty-five years ago today, on “mischief night,” Orson Welles spooked millions of radio listeners with his legendary “War of the Worlds” broadcast. Many who did not hear the “only fiction” disclaimers fled their homes to avoid imminent gas attack by marauding Martians who had landed in Grovers Mill, N.J., creating traffic jams and sending dozens to the hospital for shock and hysteria...
...addition, he said the Brattle will inaugurate two new “pseudo-annual” awards: the Bogie Award, named after Humphrey Bogart, to be given to an actor who has made “a distinctive contribution to screen history,” and the Orson Award, named after Orson Welles, to be given to “someone behind the scenes...
...Orson Welles' War of the Worlds Mercury Theatre...
Mass media begat mass hysteria, and the orchestrator was Orson Welles, who moved the setting of the sci-fi novel to New Jersey for a radio drama. Listeners heard a news bulletin break into a music broadcast and describe a meteor that crashed near Princeton and spewed fire-breathing aliens. They didn't seem to hear the network announce four times that it was fiction...