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Feb. 7, 2012
Entertainment & Arts
“The newspapers in England have called me a ‘triple thre” Simon Callow said, pausing with amusement at what he thought was journalistic excess.
Feb. 11, 1990
Books
Space does not allow for a full corrective review of Simon Callow’s very uneven book, “Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu” (Book Review, Jan. 7) but let me cite a couple of items that may raise questions about David Freeman’s claim that this biography is “unlikely to be unsurpassed,” and that it is “vivid and knowing.”
Feb. 25, 1996
Orson Welles’ life was so encrusted with fabrication and myth that by the end, in 1985, you wonder if he knew what was true.
Jan. 7, 1996
Amazing the lengths some people will go to to meet their heroes.
June 11, 1987
Movies
Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Ballad of the Sad Cafe Prods./Merchant-Ivory Prods.). Shooting in Austin.
July 1, 1990
June 30, 2017
Television
“Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens,” on PBS’ “Nova” series tonight, might well have been a boring video version of a Smithsonian exhibition, drenched in sepia tones and wrapped in the dulcet tones of narrator Liev Schreiber.
Oct. 29, 2002
A slice of the West will become the South--at least for a time--for an upcoming Vanessa Redgrave movie.
June 18, 1990
Carson McCullers’ slim literary output has been the occasion for at least two wonderful films: the 1952 “Member of the Wedding” and the 1967 “Reflections in a Golden Eye.”
May 10, 1991