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AROUND THE WORLD — Orson Welles' ill-fated Broadway collaboration with Cole Porter — will be recalled in an upcoming podcast from Porchlight Music Theatre of Chicago. Wellesnet's Ray Kelly took part in the podcast, which will be available on Spotify, YouTube and Facebook beginning Tuesday, January 1...

Orson Welles’ groundbreaking all-Black stage production of Macbeth in Harlem in 1936 is the subject of an upcoming BBC Radio 4 play.
Voodoo Macbeth will be broadcast on January 28 at 2:15 p.m. on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

https://www.wellesnet.com/voodoo-macbet ... c-radio-4/

Thanks Colmena. Interesting that the Kane version of the song is heard in a scene that takes place in 1898, eight years before Guizar was born

Author Matthew Asprey Gear ("At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City") talked with Wellesnet about his research into the influence Ernest Hemingway had on three Welles' projects: Crazy Weather, Sacred Beasts and The Other Side of the Wind. https://www.wellesnet.co...

TCM press kit for CITIZEN KANE. In 1991. So as I presume Joe did not get this deluxe press kit, from TCM. I wonder why? Joe was almost like a Hollywood Toad. How could you write for Variety, and not be suspect? Joe McBride could have been the new Charles Champlin. I guess he finally realized he had ...

The leftist publication, The Nation, weighs in on how ‘Mank’ Recovers the Radical Roots of ‘Citizen Kane’ : https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mank-welles-mankiewicz-kane/ Hollywood will never stop trying to decode Orson Welles: https://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/12/8/22159863/orson-welles...

Hangin' Out by Robert Alan Aurthur https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:t9mCcyN_kL8J:https://classic.esquire.com/article/1974/4/1/hanging-out+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari In the 1982 Arena documentary, Welles said it was Joan Didion who wrote this, but...

A Lost Orson Welles TV Pilot That’s as Groundbreaking as “Citizen Kane”:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-f ... wdJmCl1KL8

Variety on how "Casting-Couch Tactics Plagued Hollywood Long Before Harvey Weinstein":
https://variety.com/2017/film/features/ ... 202589895/

Oscar Futures: Is It Time to Start Worrying About Mank? https://www.vulture.com/2020/12/oscar-predictions-is-it-time-to-start-worrying-about-mank.html What the Mank? Pundits have pegged David Fincher’s Old Hollywood drama as one of the top-tier contenders in the Best Picture race, but those predicti...

Here are a couple of threads that were started here some years ago. It's a good book, worth getting. Marguerite H. Rippy: Orson Welles - Unfinished RKO Projects (January 2009) https://www.wellesnet.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=1639 Marguerite H. Rippy on Welles's lost OLIVER TWIST broadcast (...

Part 4/5 (Pearl Harbor to the end of radio's peak): https://soundcloud.com/thewallbreakers/bw-ep104-part-45orson-welles-radio-career-from-pearl-harbor-to-the-end-of-radios-peak Part 5/5: https://soundcloud.com/thewallbreakers/bw-ep104-part-55orson-welles-radio-career-from-pearl-harbor-to-the-end-of-...

Scene with subs:
https://vimeo.com/490045271

Looks like this pdf has been taken down. Too bad; it's a very good little monograph, well liked by Welles.

Criterion write up of a 2018 showing of Pagnol's film illuminates it as a link-of-sorts between Orson Welles and J.D. Salinger: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6113-a-heartwarming-slice-of-pagnol-newly-restored "...through the years it has won over an array of prominent admirers: Orson ...