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Tag Archives: Orson Welles
quixote:a foot in either world
…Caught between a heroic past and a future of disillusion. The Don Quixote of Miguel de Cervantes… For of course Don Quixote is Cervantes. This is well pointed out. One of the sources of Don Quixote’s power to move us … Continue reading
secret agent: espionage no longer a game
…The ideological conspirator role was not, of course, strictly new. A striking example from World War I was Sidney Reilly, the Russia-born SIS agent who after the Bolshevik revolution organized a series of insurrectionary plots against the new regime and … Continue reading
the fifties: east side stories
We have been through trying times these past several years. The urge to look back on what is perceived as a ahppier, simpler time is naturally very strong. We tend to canonize the fifties as stable and reassuring, a Golden … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alan Lomax, Alger Hiss, Arthur Miller, Danny kaye, Dorothy Parker, Humphrey Bogart, lena horne, Leonard Bernstein, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, McCarthy with hunts, Olin Downes, Orson Welles, Pete Seeger, Red Channels pamphlet HUAC, Roy Acuff, Roy Cohn, Senator Joseph A. McCarthy
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ustinov: diversity in identity
At one time in the late 1950’s, early 1960’s it became virtually impossible to turn on television without finding Peter Ustinov. He might appear as a traffic policeman- first British, then French, then Austrian. He might do his own version … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged David Garrick, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Paar, Laurence Olivier, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morley Safer 60 minutes, Noel Coward, Orson Welles, Peter Ustinov, Peter Ustinov Hammersmith is Out, Richard Burton, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Somerset Maughan, Theodore Tenley
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ustinov
Peter Ustinov was a British citizen of Russian, French, German, Italian, and Spanish extraction, then resident of America who distinguished himself as an actor, playwright, director, linguist, monologuist, cartoonist and mimic. He once said, “I suppose that if Leonardo da … Continue reading
phantom film maker
It turns out slippery Sam the shock doc maker may not be who he purports to be. That is, an American-Israeli who put together “The Innocence of Muslims” for a a claimed mere $7 million, funded by “a hundred jews”. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abu Yahya al-Libi, Ambassador Stevens Libya, Ayman al Zawahri, Christopher Stevens, Debbi Schussel, Debbie Schlussel, Graham Greene, Jeffrey Goldberg, Jeffrey Goldberg The Atlantic, Orson Welles, Pastor Terry Jones, Sam Bacile, Steve Klein and Sam Bacile, Terry Jones Koran burning, The Third Man, USS Laboon
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coffee,cars and the communal experience
Much better than his television series. This is a wrinkle on a what seems a new sort of interview style reality program that takes face to face out of the confines of the studio and into new contexts. Seinfeld’s production … Continue reading
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Tagged alec baldwin, Billy Wilder, Bryan Singer H+, Charlie Rose, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, jerry seinfeld, Larry avid Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David, Larry King now Hulu, Larry King Ora TV, Larry King web television, Marc Maron podcast, Orson Welles, Pablo Picasso, Pauline Kael, Reliance Entertainment India, Seinfeld Larry Eats a Pancake, Tom Hanks electric city Yahoo, Tom Hanks Playtone, Tom Hanks web television, Walter Benjamin
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the great ones
by Art Chantry: this is one of those ultra-famous vintage LP covers that never fails to surprise people when they see it. it’s from 1955 and it’s a cover by salvador dali! and what’s even more peculiar is that it’s … Continue reading
one day there time will surely come
Nothing like a little heresy to reinflate the sagging body of the church. The heresy of twenty plus centuries, as infinite as private choice , is hardly random, but keeps to certain well-defined channels. Past the multitudinous polysyllabic channels to … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred North Whitehead, Anabaptism, Carl Jung, Christian Heresies, Christian heretics, Franz Kafka, G.K. Chesterton, Gnosticism, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Durrell, Orson Welles, Peter Gay, Sigmund Freud, Socinianism, the Aga Khan, the Albigensians, The Protestant Reformation, the Umiliati, The Waldenses, William Blake
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