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 Although I'd seen and shared photos, I had no idea when I wrote this post back back in 2022, that actual footage might exist of Charle...

Orson Welles by Derren Brown    Another two-show day, so here's your Sunday shot of Orson Welles.   I first saw "cold reading"...

   Rab C. Nesbitt was my Holden Caulfield. At least I'm assuming he was, I didn't get past page two of Catcher In The Rye . But ...

 "Recently my secretary came to work one morning, and she said that her little boy had come home from school the previous afternoon, h...

     It's just after Frank Capra who directed "It's A Wonderful Life" talks about Hobart Bosworth losing his upper jaw to ...

    "Here, under protest, is beefburgers."    First there was the tape, endlessly copied and passed around. Dad owned one he'...

  On Tuesday I held a place for the Webcamming Chronicles (a very different show from Spike ) which Maud Madlyn and Andrès Montes Zuluaga ...

   Unfamiliar with the name, I wikipedia'd Bill Robinson – as namechecked in the often brilliant Fred Astaire muscial The Band Wagon – ...

 Some bouche -amusing, minute-long promotional videos rich with rehearsal footage have just dropped for The Love Goddess . Here's the sh...

"I was eternally grateful to Harry Cohn for what he did for me, because I had a musical, Around The World In Eighty Days, and I had to...

  Gwen Verdon in Fame!    Isn't this the best! And now you can add to the names Gwen Verdon and Debbie Allen my own, for I have just com...

     Okay, I don't necesssarily expect you to know what my Dad looks like, so you're probably just thinking "Oh, that's a p...

 I love this photo. This is the curtain call of the opening night of The Hound of the Baskervilles at the English Theatre Frankfurt, in 20...

 In the lead-up to Love Goddess , which starts rehearsals next week, I've been doing a little research into some of the Orson Welles stu...

 "Wow!" indeed, thumbnail. Vic Stefanu takes us on a brief tour of the Micronesian Bankvaults of Yap, whose ancient limestone curr...

   Further facelessness.   In the temple-like vault of a former bank stand six-hundred-and-fifty defaced and numbered photographs of the art...

     "Yeah, I'll be evil, I'll be the Bond villain." I had totally forgotten about Martin Shkreli! Do you remember Martin...

 Arts, Science, Light Ents, the lot! Don't make me choose a screenshot!   I've said it before and I'll say it again, the BBC Ar...

 Almost as surprisingly, it was filmed in portrait mode.   A single camera/projector shot a pinwheel of light at the subject, and changes of...

Form .    I didn't know when I self-taped that I was auditioning for a "bumbling lawyer". I just thought Russell would be one...