LUCK AND CIRCUMSTANCE A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond By Michael Lindsay-Hogg Illustrated. 274 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $26. One of the first interviews I ever did, in the mid-1980s for Elle magazine, was with Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who had just directed the original New York production of Larry Kramer's ''Normal Heart.'' This,...
THE MAKING OF ''SOME LIKE IT HOT'' My Memories of Marilyn Monroe and the Classic American Movie. By Tony Curtis with Mark A. Vieira. Wiley, $25.95. Curtis's writing in this memoir of Billy Wilder's 1959 comic masterpiece is staccato, repetitive and occasionally baffling. But even if the voice is a little insane -- on Wilder: ''He was wiry....
The action in ''Me and Orson Welles'' takes place in 1937 during a single hectic week bookended by two moments of relative tranquillity in which a boy (Zac Efron) meets a girl (Zoe Kazan). In the film's final scene, as they stroll out of the New York Public Library, the girl, an aspiring writer, bubbles with enthusiasm about the world of music, art...
Orson Welles (6. maj 1915 - 10. oktober 1985) var en amerikansk skuespiller, filminstruktør og manuskriptforfatter.
Hans debutfilm Den store mand (Citizen Kane, 1941) er ofte blevet kaldt for verdens bedste film.