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I saw Fuses at the Museum of Modern Art, where I worked for a couple of years in the late 60s, before becoming editor of Film Comment magazine, and where I met the foxy lady who would become my wife. MoMA was a jazzy place when the Vietnam War was...
DIED. DAN O'HERLIHY, 85, Irish actor of stage, film and TV; in Malibu, Calif. His British theater credits led to many U.S. film roles, including his first, Macduff in Orson Welles' Macbeth; F.D.R. in 1977's MacArthur; and dozens of other characters in movies ranging from Fail-Safe to...
A few years later, Wong did appear in the adaptation of a Pearl Buck novel, The Patriot, on Orson Welles' Campbell Playhouse (successor to his Mercury Theatre on the Air), supported by future Citizen Kane co-stars Ray Collins and Everett Sloane (as Chiang Kai-shek!). Wong played Peony, a...
Listening to the show on the Mercury Theatre on the Air website, I winced to hear Wong make three gaffes in less than a minute: pronouncing the Welles character's name once as "Aye-Wan," a few moments later as "Ee-Wan"; then blowing a simple line ("Oh I'm...
DIED. RUTH WARRICK, 88, who made her film acting debut in Citizen Kane but went on to greater fame with a 35-year run in ABC's soap opera All My Children; in New York City. After playing Orson Welles' icy first wife in Kane, she had a middling film...