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Color his face red. Ted Turner's, not Orson Welles'. Despite howls that he was committing artistic blasphemy, the Atlanta television and entertainment entrepreneur has applied tints to such classic films as Casablanca and The | Maltese Falcon. Still trying to squeeze fresh profits out of revered movies, Turner vowed to...
But the wily Welles may have anticipated future tampering with his work. His 1939 contract with RKO Pictures stipulated that he would retain full control over the film, specifically citing its black-and-white photography. Last week the Turner Entertainment Co. gave up a possible court fight and abandoned its...
For example, when the Orson Welles Cinema, an independent movie theater located on the corner of Mass. Ave. and Dana St., burned down in the spring of 1986, it was eventually replaced by a host of new high-tech, upscale stores such as Videosmith, Digital Record, Toppers and The Furniture...
Ralph Hoagland, who owns the building that once housed the popular movie house, says that competition from USA Cinemas, the chain that has a near-monopoly on Boston-area theaters, prevented the rebuilding of the Orson Welles. "It was hard to get good product," Hoagland says.
Instead, he filled the building with service-oriented shops catering to the new Cambridge consumer. Each of the stores in the former Orson Welles building has at least one other shop in another location around Boston and Cambridge.