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The Orson Welles Program

Two segments for an unaired pilot taped by Welles in 1979 Thanks for the links to Pablo Villaça, my Far-Flung Correspondent from Brazil. var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = "Roger Ebert's Journal"; a2a_config.linkurl = "http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/"; a2a_config.num_services = 8;

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Lars von Trier, meet Klausi Kinski

English translation: "The [Cannes] festival is so sad, its terrible. It may be a ball for the kids and everyone, but SHIT, talk a little quieter!... Cretinous, cretinous, really cretinous! I made a real effort to come here, you understand?!…

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When television had a brain in its head

Caesar;s Hour, 1954: "Here, on live TV, without benefit of editing or retakes, Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray silently mime a domestic dispute whose crescendos and valleys perfectly correspond to Beethoven's Fifth." -- From Funny or Die. "Argument to Beethoven's…

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Sing a song of newspapers

At the Chicago Headline Club awards on 5/6/11, a video featured "Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People." That started me thinking about newspaper songs. var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = "Roger Ebert's Journal"; a2a_config.linkurl = "http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/"; a2a_config.num_services = 8;

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Willam F. Buckley was not an Ayn Rand fan

He had to flog himself to finish "Atlas Shrugged" Here is the Mike Wallace interview Buckley mentions. It was her first TV interview. var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = "Roger Ebert's Journal"; a2a_config.linkurl = "http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/"; a2a_config.num_services = 8;

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Orson Welles sells peas

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