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...Spielberg during the 52nd annual DGA Awards on March 11. Past honors have gone to Cecil B. De Mille, John Ford, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, John Huston and Frank Capra. Among the films Spielberg has directed are ''Schindler's List...
...of these words caused fear among many listeners who crowded around their radios in October 1938. While it was only Orson Welles narrating "The War of the Worlds," people were fooled by his dramatic presentation. Some were driven to hysteria...
...the airways. "Sorry, Wrong Number" by Lucille Fletcher was originally performed as a radio drama in 1948 by The Orson Welles Player. A silver screen version later starred Barbara Stanwyck. In the play, neurotic, bedridden Mrs. Stevenson...
...for her role as mob mom Livia Soprano in "The Sopranos." Other top contenders are the TV movies "RKO 281," about Orson Welles' making of the classic "Citizen Kane," which received 13 bids, and "Annie," which got 12. The TV movie "Introducing...
...thought it would never happen.'' Hollywood always has raided Broadway for its top directors, the most notable being Orson Welles and Elia Kazan. Welles came out of federal theater programs of the 1930s to make such classics as ''Citizen Kane...
...bloated and puffy because of steroid medication he takes for pulmonary fibrosis. "I put on 54 pounds. I look like Orson Welles in heat," he told AP Radio recently. But the 76-year-old comedian said the weight gain didn't stop him from...
...McCarthy coming to us over the good old NBC Blue.'' For the Pomeroys and millions of others, it was a relief when Orson Welles' chilling broadcast of ''The War of the Worlds'' was revealed as fiction -- but it also reminded them of the awesome...
...a rollicking story about burgeoning communist paranoia in the mid-1930s and a pro-labor musical being staged by Orson Welles and John Houseman under federal theater auspices. Stars include John and Joan Cusack, Susan Sarandon, John Turturro...
...Nostradamus were about to come true. The vague musings of the 16th century astrologer -- given a healthy boost by the 1981 Orson Welles movie ''The Man who Saw Tomorrow'' -- were interpreted to mean a huge earthquake was about to wipe out the city...
...recently created puppets of the Seven Deadly Sins for Tim Robbins' film "Cradle Will Rock," which in turn recalls Orson Welles' puppet-filled 1937 production of "Doctor Faustus." A friend of Nelson's will dig 21 holes five feet below the...