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HOLLYWOOD: THE GOLDEN YEARS (Arts & Entertainment) RKO, the studio where King Kong, Fred Astaire and Orson Welles once roamed, was celebrated in six beautifully crafted, impressively researched episodes. Imported from the BBC, alas...
...Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music to bring you a special bulletin . . ." On Halloween eve 50 years ago, Orson Welles' broadcast of H.G. Wells' classic The War of the Worlds panicked citizens on the U.S. East Coast who believed Martians were invading. Last week when a radio station in northern Portugal re-created the celebrated 1938 drama, people again reacted in terror...
...sighted. In a show of strength that would have startled any alien bold enough to advance on Braga, a local fire chief sent two fire trucks roaring about in search of the outer-space cadets. The program, which had been announced well in advance, was intended as homage to Orson Welles. The actor, who had called his Mercury Theatre production a way of dressing up in a sheet and saying boo, would have enjoyed it hugely...
...arid and dying planet. Lowell's observations and musings, in turn, inspired British novelist H.G. Wells to write The War of the Worlds, a dramatic account of an invasion of the earth by octopus-like Martians. In 1938 a radio adaptation of that novel by another man named Welles -- Orson, that is -- panicked many Americans who believed that a real Martian invasion was under...
...biggest egos of all belonged to Orson Welles, who was always seeking perfection, or better. When the 60-day shooting schedule of Welles' The Lady from Shanghai ran to 90 days, the studio sent a watchdog, Jack Fier, to speed him up. Welles erected a sign that read THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FIER IS FIER ITSELF. Not to be outdone, Fier put up his own placard: ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELLES...