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Fierce Creatures (Cleese and Robert M. Young) (as Rod McKane/Vince McKane); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Trousdale and Kirk Wise—animation) (as voice of Phoebus); Looking for Richard (Pacino) (as himself) 1997 In & Out (Oz) (as Howard Brackett); The Ice Storm (Lee) (as Ben ...
Carringer, Robert, The Making of Citizen Kane , Los Angeles, 1985. Leaming, Barbara, Orson Welles: A Biography , New York, 1985. Brady, Frank, Citizen Welles , New York, 1989. France, Richard, editor, Orson Welles: On Shakespeare , New York, 1990. Wood, Bret, Orson Welles: A...
escape, accompanied only by Robert Emmett, initially by carriage to New Rochelle, then to Boston, and ten days later home to England. Macready had shown considerable courage, but he had also been characteristically tactless and self-assertive. He was, furthermore, the victim of ...
Self-glorifying anddecadent, glam rock positioned itself as a backlash against therockmainstream of the late 1960s; on theperipheryof society and rockculture, glam rockers were, as criticRobert Palmer put it, “rebelling against the rebellion.” At glam’s core musically was a heavy guitar sou...
the Production Code to the epicnovelbyLeon Uris(who also wrote the screenplay). It was Walsh’s firstCinemascopeproduction and starred Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, and Tab Hunter. The cattle-drive western soap-operaThe Tall Men(1955) had an excellent cast ofClark Gable,Robert Ryan, andJane ...
Robert Wilson: Chartist demonstrationChartist demonstration, Kennington Common, 1848; illustration from The Life and Times of Queen Victoria (1900) by Robert Wilson.(more) Important political events during this period included the abolition of slavery in the British Empire; the expansions of the franch...