Word: orsones
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brazenness, Kane is an inspiration to all who see it, especially filmmakers. Here, it says, is what you can do with youth, a blank check and a little genius. A big genius, that is. The first words on the screen herald him with astounding bravado: "A Mercury production by Orson Welles...
...That Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier both donned blackface in famous film versions doesn't mean no one else should try. Parker had the radical idea to cast a black man as Othello, and Laurence Fishburne brings an outsider's dignity to the role of Shakespeare's noblest chump. Irene Jacob is a lovely, sallow Desdemona, and Kenneth Branagh--looking bloated and rheumy, slithering snakelike on rooftops, whispering his venomous gossip as if it's his last confession--makes a fine Iago, a demi-devil working his cool wit to destroy those he might have loved...
DIED. HOWARD KOCH, 93, screenwriter; in Woodstock, New York. A lawyer, Koch wrote radio plays for Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre, notably 1938's panic-provoking War of the Worlds broadcast. His fine craft illuminated film scripts for Casablanca (1942), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) and-notoriously-the Soviet-friendly Mission to Moscow in 1943. Though not a communist, Koch was blacklisted in the 1950s. He outlived his vilifiers, enduring with grace and grit worthy of Bogart's Rick...
...With the demise of the Orson Welles, theExeter and other theatres over the years, itbecame apparent to us that there simply are notenough local venues to adequately support theincreased number of specialized films availablefrom around the world," he said
...Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier have done it, but no black man has ever acted Othello in a major movie. Now LAURENCE FISHBURNE is close to signing on to play Shakespeare's Moor in a version directed by Kenneth Branagh. Some actors, given current sensitivities, might balk at playing theater's most famous wife killer, especially if they had won renown as bad husband Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It? But at least this time Fishburne won't have to wear mean purple bell-bottoms...