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http://www.geekweek.com/2010/01/20-greatest-extended-takes-in-movie-history.html According to Geekweek: "The extended take is a cinematic hire-wire act that pushes the director, actors, cinematographer, art department, sound design, and every other department to their limits." Hitchcock an...

Oh God, the horror. One of those late-career low ebbs that REALLY make you wish Welles had stayed in Hollywood and finished Ambersons. I heard this crummy tune back in the day and it must have been such an embarrassment for Welles... and for Welles' fans. Wasn't The Mike Curb Congregation involved i...

There can't be too many film lovers who can tell you about Timothy Carey. Here's an interesting story on Carey's bizarre sideline career as a zero-budget film director: Timothy Carey: THE WORLD'S GREATEST DIRECTOR! http://absolutefilms.net/tim_carey/FilmFax2004.html And actor Paul Picerni recalls hi...

Is the world ready for The Other Side of the Wind , a film that gives us the lowdown on Hollywood... circa 1972 ? Imagine if Citizen Kane had been stored in a vault and released 38 years after it was completed. Would anyone have noticed? Same difference. Blast of Silence , a 1961 film-noir masterpie...

The 1959 Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival should have gone to Bradford Dillman alone... and not been been split three ways. Dillman was brilliant, but the performances of Dean Stockwell and Orson Welles were just average. On the And You Call Yourself a Scientist! Web site, Dillman’s Arti...

A very detailed account of the history and production of THE LAST ROMAN (aka KAMPF UM ROM, THE FIGHT FOR ROME, THE STRUGGLE FOR ROME, etc.) – illustrated with excellent color photos and a theatrical poster – can be found at the French-language PEPLUM site: http://www.peplums.info/pep29.htm A user co...

Check out KAMPF KLASSIC at Shadowplay: http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2009/12/29 ... /#comments
Orson Welles, Laurence Harvey and Honor Blackman co-starred in this "giant Euro-pudding epic about the fall of Rome."

Amen to that! And...
"God Bless Us, Everyone!" (a seasonal sentiment expressed by Tiny Tim, voiced by Arthur Anderson [?] on Orson Welles' classic 1938 broadcast of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol)

Click on http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/80777/detail/ to access “an early '80s SCTV John Candy bit, based on a tape of the actual Orson Welles recording a British frozen-peas audio advertisement.” Fifteen years after John Candy’s death, most people still “get the joke”. The image endures of a fa...

The legend of Welles' downfall continues to enthrall as the stories of the Great One's humiliations in his later years are passed down the generations: in this case, Welles' misfortunes and foibles are a source of mirth to Zachary Wigon, an up-and-coming 22-year-old screenwriter whose latest script ...

Man, this thread is really getting ugly. I feel a lockdown coming on... A touch of evil permeates this thread, and it's quite a trial reading through these increasingly nasty missives – a journey into fear, almost. In the words of the King, can't we all just get along? I much prefer David Thomson to...

Chris Welles Feder makes reference to her father's heavy amphetamine use in the forties and how it ruined his metabolism and may have contributed to his excessive weight gain in later years. According to Wikipedia, producer David O. Selznick was a heavy amphetamine user, and would often dictate long...

Patricia Medina was wonderful (and as always, easy on the eyes) in a darkly comic 1964 episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour titled SEE THE MONKEY DANCE, co-starring Roddy McDowall and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. The show was produced by Norman Lloyd. Keep an eye out for it. Speaking of Lloyd, check out Jake...

How is Me and Orson Welles different from the other projects you have worked on? —Julie Sephora, New York City Zac Efron : It's sort of a coming-of-age story for my character, but it's also a week in the life of Orson Welles, this amazing American icon. There are a lot of tough people in Hollywood,...