It begins with a death — a car accident that takes the life of a legendary director on his 70th birthday — and ends with a giant phallic symbol toppling over. In between those two moments, you get ...

Orson Bean, 91, died on Feb. 7 after sadly being stuck and killed by a vehicle in Venice, CA, authorities confirmed to ABC7. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office said the actor’s death is being ...

According to Yahoo! Finance, Bean was born Dallas Frederick Burrows. At the age of 16, prompted by his mother’s death, he left home. He started using the stage name Orson Bean. He explained the ...

One afternoon in the fall of 1985, during our weekly or every-other-weekly lunch at Ma Maison, Orson Welles told me attacks were beginning to come in, in response to a slew of books that had recently ...

George Orson Welles, born on May 6, 1915, was a man of innumerable talents and unquenchable drive, whose creative stamp was left on stage, on radio and in film. An enfant terrible up to his death in ...

70 years ago this month, Orson Welles (pictured in a scene from "Citizen Kane") began writing for this very paper. But his boring subject matter - a wealth of personal problems - led to a perfect ...

It’s early in the year, but it’s already the year of “Chimes at Midnight,” Orson Welles’s mighty adaptation, from 1965, of Shakespeare’s plays featuring the colossal character of Falstaff. Welles did ...

Joshua Grossberg is determined to uncover what is being described as "a cinematic holy grail." The filmmaker is teaming up with Turner Classic Movies (TCM) to search for the lost print of Orson Welles ...

This article was first published on the Above the Law site. At the 1942 Academy Awards, Orson Welles won the Best Screenplay Oscar for Citizen Kane. What he did with the statuette next remained a ...

Robert Silverberg, Editor, Orson Scott Card, Author, Stephen King, Author Tor Books $27.95 (715p) ISBN 978-0-312-86787-4 Microcosmic glimpses of broadly imagined worlds and their larger-than-life ...

Recorded conversations between Welles and director Jaglom are revealed for the first time in Peter Biskind's book, while Todd Tarbox's novel looks at the friendship between the celebrated filmmaker ...

From Van Gogh's brush to contemporary installations, cinema loves to explore the universe of creators. Intimate biopics, fascinating documentaries, or bold visual experiences, these films reveal the ...