Obituaries
Agnes Moorehead, whose acting career spanned half a century and almost every character role from glamorous divorcee to acid-tongued witch, died Tuesday at Methodist Hospital in Rochester, Minn.
May 1, 1974
Movies
In the year that finally brought the release of Orson Welles’ long-delayed, posthumously completed “The Other Side of the Wind,” it’s only fitting that Criterion Collection has issued a new edition of “The Magnificent Ambersons” (1942).
Nov. 29, 2018
“The Rebel,” ABC’s 1959-61 western, starred the Oscar-nominated Nick Adams (“Twilight of Honor”) and featured a memorable theme song that became a hit for Johnny Cash.
Aug. 15, 2015
Television
Bruce Boxleitner, Genie Francis, Linda Evans and Lee Grant star in the 1982 NBC miniseries Bare Essence (Monday and Tuesday at 9 p.m. on Lifetime), a melodrama about wealth, power and romance in today’s business world.
July 7, 1991
Although reams have been written about the mutilation of Orson Welles’ second feature, what remains of it is nevertheless a major accomplishment, an elegiac saga of the decline and fall of a rich small-town American family, based on a Booth Tarkington novel.
June 19, 1994
There are those of us who think Orson Welles’ 1942 The Magnificent Ambersons (AMC Sunday at 10:30 p.m.), even in its re-cut state, is a greater film than “Citizen Kane.”
July 22, 1990
Entertainment & Arts
In the hell according to George Bernard Shaw, dialogue comes cheap and plentiful.
April 28, 1994
In 1954, John Wayne made the movie that may have killed him.
April 21, 1989
Books
DISNEY A TO Z: THE OFFICIAL ENCYCLOPEDIA By Dave Smith (Hyperion: $29.95, 564 pp.).
Sept. 8, 1996
Growing up in the 1960s, Herbie J Pilato knew why he was a fan of the ABC sitcom “Bewitched.”
Oct. 25, 1992