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• The Father’s Day Intertitle: The Leith Police Dismisseth Us

  
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  OK, it’s not exactly an intertitle, but I had to honour the fact that John Ford pasted my address across the screen in MARY OF SCOTLAND. It’s a legendarily quite bad film, though more of an honorable failure than, say, THE HURRICANE (a commercial hit but a veritable TOWERING INFERNO artistically), part of a string ...
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• Battle of the Books, Bracket Six, Second Round :: False Covenant by Ari Marmell vs. Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

  
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  We begin the second round of Bracket Six of the Fantastic Reviews Battle of the Books with False Covenant by Ari Marmell going against Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston. The winner will be the book I (Aaron) most want to continue reading after the first 50 pages. False Covenant: Pyr ...
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• Kane Caught in Love Nest with “Dinosaur”

  
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  Panels from Nemo: Heart of Ice, the latest installment of the adventures of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Ignore the terrible movie with which Sean Connery ended his career, the comic is quite good. In The League’s universe, all the characters from sensational fiction ...
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• Before They Were Movies: Books

  
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  June Book Review   But Seriously, Don’t. This month’s book review is reflecting the amazing summer of movies that is occurring. Scott has already previewed many of his most anticipated upcoming movies, but for me The Great Gatsby ’s latest cinematic debut reminded me about the greatness of the ...
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• Mormons speaking of Catholicism: Surely they jest…?

  
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  The Mormon President of Ohio State University announced his retirement last week amidst controversy over his anti-Catholic remarks. Gordon Gee has a long history of “verbal gaffes,” but his recent comments about “those damn Catholics” apparently crossed the line. According to news reports, “’The ...
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• WASTELANDS – featuring Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Cory Doctorow and many others

  
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  Today we digitally release a ground-breaking and definitive anthology of short stories from some of the very biggest names in science fiction and fantasy . . . Presenting: WASTELANDS: STORIES OF THE APOCALYPSE An anthology of post-apocalyptic short fiction from genre heavyweights such as Stephen King, ...
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• Chris Welles Feder to introduce Manhattan screening of ‘Touch of Evil’ on Friday

  
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  The 1998 reconstructed version of "Touch of Evil" will be shown at the Rubin Museum of Art on 17th Street off Seventh Avenue in Manhattan on Friday, June 14Orson Welles oldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder, will be introducing the film.The presentation begins at 9:30 p.m. For those who spend $7 at the bar, admission to ...
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• ‘Jane Eyre’ with Orson Welles coming to Blu-ray this fall

  
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  "Jane Eyre starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine will make its debut on Blu-ray this fall.Twilight Time, which specializes in limited edition classic films on home video, is listing the 1943 drama, directed by Robert Stevenson, for release on November 12. On the same day, Twilight Time will release the 1968 musical ...
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• Is ‘The Deep’ boat for sale?

  
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  Wellesnet.com fields many questions from Orson Wellles fans, but our most recent query was quite intriguing. "I have located a 43-foot wooden sailing boat for sale in Croatia. The sellers say that the boat was used in the filming of an Orson Welles movie in early 70s... for some reason the film was never [...]
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• Quote of the Day | Orson Welles

  
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• Will Power: 10 Great Shakespeare Movies

  
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  With Joss Whedon’s  ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in theaters, we take a look back at 10 memorable big-screen adaptations of William Shakespeare plays
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• Orson Welles on How to Receive a Compliment and Artistic Freedom

  
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  From Orson Welles’ AFI Life Achievement Award in 1975. My father once told me that the art of receiving a compliment is, of all things, the sign of a civilized man. He died soon afterwards, leaving my education in this important matter sadly incomplete; I’m only glad that, on this, the occasion of the rarest ...
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• The Lady From Shanghai (1948)

  
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  "When I start out to make a fool of myself, theres very little can stop me. If Id known where it would end, Id never let anything start... if Id been in my right mind, that is. But once Id seen her, I was not in my right mind for some time", Michael OHara (Orson Welles). A estreia mundial de The Lady From Shanghai foi ...
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• The Week in Review

  
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  Welcome to the week in review! Every Friday, we comb through the links and images we found and shared this week, and pull the very best for this post. Consider it concentrated genre goodness from all around the web.   Check out the book trailer for The Rithmatist , Brandon Sanderson’s new young adult novel! ...
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• “For Prehistoric Man, Life Itself was the Biggest Gamble”: Exceedingly Rare and Wonderfully Dated In-Room Instructional Video Guide to Casino Games, Hosted by Orson Welles

  
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  Orson Welles, the great director, hapless businessman, and charmingly arrogant fixture of Hollywood for several decades, was frequently forced to accept rent-paying film work throughout his career. His commercials for California wine, which exhibited a bloated and embarrassingly sloshy Welles, are classics today. ...
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• Recent Reading: Fiction Edition, by Art Carden

  
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  1. Foundation . Im working on reading more fiction, and Im trying to check off some of the classic trilogies and series in fantasy and science fiction. About a year ago, I read C.S. Lewiss Space Trilogy (which was brilliant) and gave up on the Dune trilogy about halfway through the third volume. I wont give ...
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• Woodstock celebration of Orson Welles centenary expanded, new dates

  
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  Woodstock Celebrates Inc. has expanded its planned celebration of the 100th anniversary of Orson Welles birth from a two-day to a four-day event in 2015.The Illinois celebration will now take place a week earlier on May 6-9, 2015, which will coincide with Welles actual birthday of May 6. It also avoids a conflict with ...
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• Coming Soon: “Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction” by Orson Scott Card, Philip Athans and Jay Lake

  
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  Phil Athans tells us that Amazon has posted the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming writers’ guide Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction: How to Create Out-of-This-World Novels and Short Stories by Orson Scott Card, Philip Athans and Jay Lake. Says Phil: “This is a revised and updated edition of Orson ...
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• Writers manipulating readers

  
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  "Ive been thinking recently about the way readers come to be in sympathy with characters in a story. This is something that isnt talked about much, and when it is it seems to be in terms of how to manipulate the reader. Indeed, I stopped reading Orson Scott Card for a different reason than the reason everyone else ...
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• Michael Douglas on Preparing for the Role of Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra" (2013)

  
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  In the HBO film Behind the Candelabra, directed by Steven Soderbergh, we take a look at the relationship between Las Vegas performer Liberace and his young lover, Scott Thorson over the course of its six year existence. The flamboyant Liberace is played by Michael Douglas and Matt Damon plays Scott.Douglas has been ...
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