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...then, on July 11, 1938, like Martians taking over New Jersey, Orson Welles invaded radio...
...raucous, joyous bunch of pastiches bubbled over with sharp point-of-view writing and obscure movie and radio references. Scarface Jones? Bulldog Drummond? Salty Sam and Sweet Sue (in their masterpiece, "Along Came Jones")? Most kids didn?t know that the Shadow was a ?30s radio hero (voiced by Orson Welles), but they couldn?t help laughing at Leiber?s threatening rhymes: "You?d better mind your P?s and Q?s/ And your M?s and N?s and O?s / Because... the Shadow knows...
...they try to pre-sell advertising "up front," on the basis of what the networks annually promise will be the greatest season of public entertainment the world has known since the days of Aeschylus, and generally ends up with John Goodman playing a gay guy and trading insults with Orson Bean. Held in tony venues like Radio City Music Hall, the presentations involve elaborate stage presentations, comedy bits and star walk-ons - the aesthetic is somewhere between an awards show and an insurance dealers' regional sales meeting. They're followed by cocktail parties where the networks pimp out their celebs...
...made a few phone calls and talked to some friends and saw some of the same raw emotion I hadn't felt since John Lennon got shot in 1980. Joey was a good guy, a hero to punks and fans of punk; he was like Mickey Mantle or Orson Welles, a man both loved and respected. And punk mattered, it changed lives like jazz did or the '60s did. It was only stupid when it wanted to be; if you couldn't hear that, you would never break on through to the sheer sensual pleasure it offered. I'm grateful...
...almost all of them working in Hollywood?give themselves. If the awards go to good movies (like Shakespeare in Love), that's nice. If they go to terrific ones (like Platoon), that's a coincidence. If they go to great ones, that's a mistake. Consider Citizen Kane: Orson Welles' masterpiece lost in 1942 to How Green Was My Valley...