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prodigal radio: mercury in midtown
Orson Welles. The baggy trickster who scared the radio audience at 23, and in infuriated the Hearst empire at 25, with Citizen Kane. …In the mid 1930’s, America was still far down in the Depression; as a time for launching … Continue reading
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Tagged Archibald MacLeish, George Bernard Shaw, John Houseman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles, Orson Welles Mercury Theater, Orson Welles The March of Time, Orson Welles The Shadow, thomas dekker, Thornton Wilder
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instant prodigy mix: just add talent and stir
Orson Welles was a leading man at 18, scared the radio audience silly at 23, and infuriated the Hearst empire at 25, …. How is it that Orson Welles came to be such a figure of international fascination? Part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Woollcott, Dr. Maurice Bernstein, Gate Theatre Dublin, Hilton Edwards, Howard Koch, Katherine Cornell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orson Welles, Roger Hill Todd School, Thornton Wilder, Todd School
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SILENCE FILLED WITH VIVID NOISELESS BOYS
After graduation and on the eve of his embarkation for France as a “gentleman volunteer” ambulance driver,John Dos Passos’s letters almost exploded with rebellion. “I have been spending my time of late going to pacifist meetings and being dispersed by … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Seeger, Archibald MacLeish, Charles Nordhoff, Daniel Aaron, E.E. Cummings, Egon Schiele, Eric Kennington, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, John Reed, John Steinbeck, Malcolm Cowley, Max Beckman, Max Beckmann, Nathan Asch, Otto Dix, Richard Norton, Robert Service, Sandra Gilbert, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolf, Thornton Wilder
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IDOL GOSSIP: FEED YOUR SLEEPLESS HEAD
G.I. Gurdjieff was one of the most important spiritual figures of the 20th century. Controversial and cloaked in mystery, his mythology is as rich as it is questionable. He claimed to have traveled from his native Armenia to the Far … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alessandro Botticelli, Arthur Koestler, Avi Solomon, Beethoven, Brian Eno, Carl Jung, David Appelbaum, Erich Maria Rilke, Franz Liszt, Fritz Peters, G.I. Gurdjieff, Geoff Olson, George L. Beke, Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Henry Miller, Ilya Kotz, Jean Toomer, John Allen Watts, Josef Danhauser, Katherine Mansfield, Kathryn Hulme, Keith Jarrett, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lord Byron, Michael Pittman, Michel de Salzmann, Orage, Otto Gonzalez, P.D. Ouspensky, P.L. Travers, Robert Fripp, Sandro Botticelli, T.S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, Victor Hugo, William Patrick Patterson
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REVOLUTION OF THE SEXY LAMB
” it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. Duke Ellington’s 1931 composition in reverse.Were there Subliminal messages in Beatles songs when played backwards? The famous dead-man messages contained within the marketing and the more subliminal experiments … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Beatles, Carl Solomon, Duke Ellington, Ezra Pound, F.Scott Fitgerald, George Harrison, Gertrude Stein, hemingway, Henri Matisse, Howl, J.Brahms, Jerry Saltz, John Cage, John Lennon, Kurt Weill, Matisse, Musique Concrete, Pablo Picasso, Patum Peperium, Paul McCartney, Pierre Schaeffer, The Beatles, Thornton Wilder, Village voice
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By the Skin of Their Teeth
A ninety second viral spot filmed in a hand- held style in downtown Toronto ; a washed out palette that raises the spectre of post-apocalyptic films like Children of Men.Its called called ”Moms Against Climate Change” and aims to raise … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Blavatsky, Children of Men, Environmental Defense and ForestEthics, ForestEthics, George Antrobus, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, Hitler Youth, Lily Sabina, Moms Against Climate Change, Simon Houpt, The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder, Viral marketing
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