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Oct 12, 2014 · Yasmin Aga Khan was granted conservatorship in July 1981 and moved her mother to New York City. In his highly informative book Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts , Todd Tarbox recounted a July 21, 1983 conversation between the two old friends centering on Rebecca Welles’ decision to visit the ailing Hayworth.
May 30, 2004 · Rebecca is survived by her loving husband, Guy Manning; son Marc Welles; stepchildren Kristine (Manning) Scholtz, Michael Manning, Brandi Manning; sisters Yasmin Aga Khan, Christopher Welles Feder, Beatrice Welles O'Donaghue; eight grandchildren, and many other family and long time friends." Edited By Wilson on Oct. 22 2004 at 11:09
May 10, 2024 · Oja Kodar video interview available online. May 10, 2024. Noted film scholar Jonathan Rosenbaum has unearthed his extensive 78-minute interview with Croatian actress-sculptor Oja Kodar on his blog. The interview was conducted during the Orson Welles centenary celebration in the late filmmaker’s adopted hometown of Woodstock, Illinois.
Sep 1, 2008 · September 1, 2008. This weekend a new documentary Prodigal Sons, about Orson Welles grandson, Marc McKerrow Welles, was screened at the Telluride Film Festival. I haven’t seen the film yet, but based on the synopsis from the press kit, it can probably be best described in the same terms as Orson Welles’s first movie: “It’s Sensational.”.
May 22, 2006 · ORSON WELLES: Better. Zaharoff was a shabby character. Arkadin is a person who has made his way largely in a corrupt world; he doesn’t try to be more than that world, he’s trapped in it and is the best he could be within that frame of reference. He is the best possible “expression” of that universe.
Feb 25, 2013 · None had ever heard of “Rosebud.”. Actually, as it turns out, “Rosebud” is the trade name of a cheap little sled on which Kane was playing on the day he was taken away from his home and his mother. In his subconscious it represented the simplicity, the comfort, above all the lack of responsibility in his home, and also it stood for his ...
Jun 5, 2013 · The 3,000 square-foot, four-bedroom Cape Cod style home was built in 1928 by Sidney Toller of the “Charlie Chan” film series. It boasts a luxury pool with jacuzzi, a dry sauna and spectacular view. Guests can rent the home for several days or a month. Daily rates range from $895 to $1,195 (five-night minimum stay).
May 31, 2001 · Like Samuel Taylor Coleridge proved in the poem “Kubla Khan,” or Brian Wilson sadly demonstrated with his incomplete “SMiLE!” album, sometimes the unfinished project—and the mythology surrounding it (for “Kubla Khan” it’s the visitor from Porlock; for “SMiLE!” it’s Brian Wilson’s ravishing LSD addiction; and for Ambersons it’s the larger-than-life genius of Orson ...
Each chapter of Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life focuses on a character with whom Welles identified or whom he portrayed on radio, stage, screen or television: Peter Pan, Faust, Mercury, Kurtz (Heart of Darkness), Kubla Khan/Kane, Cesare Borgia (Prince of Foxes), Ahab, Falstaff, Harry Lime (The Third Man), Don Quixote, Prospero and others.
Nov 15, 2012 · At every instant, the customer was encouraged to pause over some Kubla Khan setting, some portentously lit floor-shot of an actor, or some symbol (the falling-snow toy, the bird screaming in escape), and think in the terms of what it had to tell about a publisher’s immoral pursuit of love-power-respect.
