Disturbing Aliens, Some From Space Welles Peaks: ‘The Stranger’ and PBS’s ‘War of the Worlds’ Orson Welles in 1938, rehearsing for “The Mercury Players on the Air,” the radio show behind his “War of the Worlds” broadcast that same year. By DAVE KEHR Published: October 24, 2013 It was all…
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Listen, I try to steer away from politics here — but these have been a tense few weeks. From left to right in the picture below: my uncle Robert, my mother, and my father. My uncle was a pilot in WWII, my father wrote code — he never spoke much…
Illustration by Rockwell Kent RACHEL KUSHNER: I don’t think of sex as any more difficult to write about than any other human behavior. Writers fail or soar at anything. Everyone thinks about sex, engages in it. It’s the secret we all share. Just acknowledging its constant presence in people’s thoughts…
It is one of the most memorable of all the many memorable images of Marilyn Monroe — standing over a sidewalk subway grate on Lexington Avenue as the whoosh from below sends her ecru halter dress billowing above her waist. Ms. Monroe was the star of that scene, but the…
A few pictures, long ago, of Wilshire Blvd. and the temple: By ADAM NAGOURNEY Published: August 18, 2013 LOS ANGELES — It was known as the Temple of the Stars: a soaring sanctuary capped by a 100-foot-wide Byzantine dome, built by Hollywood moguls on the eve of the Depression and…
Scheduled for release by Columbia Pictures in early fall, Dr. Strangelove is being shot in England, it was explained, to accommodate Peter Sellers, who was unable to leave the country for domestic reasons. In addition to the President, the protean Sellers also plays the title role of a German scientist,…
TURNER: Another thing I want to do, and I hope I do, is to pass on a kind of ethics, you know, a professional ethics: Don’t be late. Your job is to be physically able to do this, the role that you have taken on. Don’t keep people waiting. Treat…
How did you approach working with your students? WEBER: I decided not to just take photographers. I wanted filmmakers, because I’m a filmmaker myself, but also painters or writers. It seemed like a lot of the people were also writers. And I learned so much about looking at things in…