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...travel, but its glories lasted only 40 years. By 1939 changes in railroad technology had downgraded it to a commuter station. In 1969 the last train left, and the place was abandoned: a rusting abode of cats and pigeons, whose damp silence was occasionally broken by film units; Orson Welles and Bernardo Bertolucci are among the directors who have sought evocative locations in its Piranesian gloom. Meanwhile developers covetously eyed it, dreaming of the slow-motion arc of the wrecker's ball. In 1971 the French government, under President Georges Pompidou, issued a demolition order...
Fighting phantoms Jimmy Dean stepped on the gas, Orson...
...other side of the Harvard Square entertainment spectrum, the Orson Welles Theatre shows no signs of reopening. The theatre which was destroyed by a fire last May has changed its marquis notice from, "See you next fall," to "Closed due to fire...
...balance. He is reading books like Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle and The Epic of Gilgamesh, brainstorming on a new movie. In one way or another, every rock singer wants to be Elvis Presley. But here, all of a sudden, is one who can take a cut at being Orson Welles. Glass thinks "the Talking Heads will go on," but adds, "For many of us, it's the other ways in which David will be developing that will be the most interesting...
Whatever the real story behind the mysterious events at the Orson Welles last Friday, I would recommend extreme caution to anyone planning to see Jouney into Fear or A Touch of Evil in the near future. As for me, I have to go button my trenchcoat and don my snapbrim before I venture out on a lonely quest for a little truth down those dark, mean streets...