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...jacket so loud it practically barks, Widmark is the perfect sucker in a nightscape made for entrapment. The titanic figure of night-club owner Francis L. Sullivan is just one of the menacing clowns in this nutty noir's sideshow of gargoyle grotesques. This time, instead of borrowing from Orson Welles, Dassin seems to be prefiguring him. Night and the City, made in 1950, is five years ahead of Welles' even more outrageously mannered Mr. Arkadin...
Citizen Kane is the definitive litmus test, and Oscar failed it. At the top of nearly every critics' poll as the best film of all time, Orson Welles' debut movie was praised to the skies when it opened in 1941. But the resemblance of Charles Foster Kane to publisher William Randolph Hearst cued a campaign to suppress the movie, and Kane flopped in its initial release. In addition, many in the industry rankled at Welles' boy-genius rep and may have resented the freedom this first-timer was given by his studio, RKO. Under these circumstances, it's probably...
...TIME's cover story] has had the same effect as Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds in 1938 ... The French were persuaded to believe in an American attack on French culture. The controversy of the past weeks is purely manufactured, the handiwork of three people: the clever journalist who wrote the article, the shrewd editor who put it on the cover, and the graphic artist who brilliantly associated the widely lamented death of Marcel Marceau with, if I may draw on modern French thought, the empty signifier "French culture." John Brenkman, PROFESSOR, BARUCH COLLEGE...
...first liquor auction since Prohibition at Christie's in Manhattan, a 1926 single-malt Macallan scotch went for $54,000; that's more than $2,000 per oz. (30 mL). Elsewhere, a lock of John Lennon's hair brought $48,000, but Marie Antoinette's pearls and Orson Welles' Oscar are still available, both having failed to reach their minimum bids...
Sasha was not a normal kid. His parents told me he was a genuine child genius. Spoke three languages, did 12th-grade math, played violin and piano - if you read Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game or saw Little Man Tate, you know the type...