Tag Archives: Orson Welles

Digging though the Hollywood archives: Ted Healy’s drawing of Wallace Beery, and Wallace Beery’s murder of Ted Healy

By Mark | February 23, 2013

Every once in a while, I’ve been known to go off on a tangent. Something obscure will pique my interest, and, for whatever reason, I find that I’m not able to let it go. (Does anyone remember my interest in the large school bell that was rung by the 19 year old Orson Welles in [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1932, 1937, Albert Broccoli, anxiety, cross-dressing, Dinner at Eight, drag, Good Old Soak, Grand Hotel, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Greta Garbo, Hollywood, Jackie Cooper, James Bond, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Louie B. Mayer, MGM, murder mystery, Oscars, Pat DiCicco, Phyllis Ann Beery, silent films, social anxiety disorder, Sweedie The Swedish Maid, Ted Healy, The Champ, The Hearts of Age, Thelma Todd, Three Stooges, Trocadero, unresolved mystery, vaudeville, Wallace Beery, Will Rogers | 16 Comments

Jazz Planet promises to bring War of the Worlds to Ypsilanti on Halloween night

By Mark | October 27, 2012

As I’ve never met the folks behind this project, and have no clue as to how good it will be, I probably shouldn’t be promoting it, but, as a huge fan of both H.G. Wells and Orson Welles, and a life-long lover of radio drama, I didn’t feel as though I had a choice. When [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1938, community theater, David Fienup, Denene Pollock, extraterrestrials, foley, George Pal, H.G. Wells, Halloween, Jeff Priskorn, Judson Fountain, Mark Bernstein, old time radio, PTD Productions, radio drama, Sara Shouhayib, Season of the Witch, sound effects, Soundopolis, subliminal messaging, Ted Woods, War of the Worlds, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti water tower | 5 Comments

The unsolved mystery of Jack Brown’s 1984 murder in Ypsilanti

By Mark | March 17, 2012

Every once in a while, my OCD gets the best of me, and I find myself going off on a tangent, obsessed by some little thing that, if I were anyone else, I’d probably just disregard. Recently, as you might recall, I got a little fixated, for whatever reason, by a large bell that figured [...]

Posted in Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1984, Brenda Stumbo, conspiracy theories, contract killing, Cynthia Wilbanks, Eagle Brief, Ed Hall, Ehman and Greenstreet Real Estate, Gary Hawks, getting away with murder, historic reenactment, hit man, In Search Of, Jack Brown, Kirk Profit, Mike Hawks, murder, murder for hire, murder mystery, real estate, Roy Wilbanks, scandals, sitcom ideas, The Hearts of Age, Unsolved Mysteries, Ypsilanti police department | 22 Comments

I would have rather waken up this morning and seen the headline “Lou Reed torn apart by baboons” than have seen this…

By Mark | November 13, 2011

I’m trying to tell myself that it’s good that he’s still trying new things, but, Jesus Christ, this is so much worse than anything that I could have imagined. I mean, holding concerts for dogs is one thing – at least I could kind of justify that as performance art – but I’m finding it [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life | Also tagged All Things Must Pass, fallen heros, George Harrison, Jay Z, Justin Bieber, Laurie Anderson, Metallica, music for dogs, performance art, Velvet Underground, White Light White Heat | 26 Comments

Orson Welles and his dinner with Hitler

By Mark | October 27, 2011

I consider myself to be a pretty big Orson Welles fan, but, up until this evening, I never knew that he’d dined with Hitler. I suppose I still don’t know it for certain, as it’s possible that Welles is lying in this interview with Dick Cavett, but, nonetheless, I find it fascinating that he may [...]