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Orson's Shadow

The play received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Play and won the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance.


An Evening with Orson Welles

An Evening with Orson Welles is a series of six short films created in 1970 by Orson Welles, for the exclusive use of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Welles produced the recitations of popular stories for Sears's Avco Cartrivision machines, a pioneering home video system.

By Inferno's Light

Having just come through the wormhole in the closing moments of the previous episode, the Dominion fleet momentarily pauses and faces off with DS9, USS Defiant, several runabouts, and Gul Dukat aboard a Bird of Prey.

Casey's Shadow

Down on his luck Louisiana horse trainer Lloyd Bourdelle (Walter Matthau) dreams of winning the All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico.

Charles Foster

Charles Foster Kane, fictional character from Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane

Chiu Chi-ling

He has appeared in such well-known Kung Fu style movies as Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, Duel of the Seven Tigers, the comic smash-hit Kung Fu Hustle, and Adventures of Power.

Clinton, Louisiana

The Long, Hot Summer, a 1958 film directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, and Orson Welles, was filmed in and around Clinton.

Cris Bonacci

In a period of inactivity of Girlschool in 1990, she joined up with British rock singer Toyah Willcox, performing on GMTV to promote Willcox' album Ophelia's Shadow.

Culture Vultures

Culture Vultures is a 2007 indie rock album by American band Orson.

Earth's shadow

When the Sun, the Earth and the Moon are aligned perfectly (or almost perfectly), with the Earth in between the Sun and the Moon, the Earth's shadow falls onto the surface of the Moon which is facing the night side of the Earth, such that observers see the shadow gradually turn the bright full Moon dark, and then light again, creating a lunar eclipse.

Empire series

The Empire Duet or Empire series, two novels by Orson Scott Card

Ender Wiggin

He molds the group of untested and unwanted students into the most successful army in the history of the school (it is revealed in Ender's Shadow that Julian "Bean" Delphiki actually chose them).

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow.

Filming The Trial

After Orson Welles' death in 1985, all of his unfinished films were bequeathed to his long-term companion and mistress Oja Kodar, and she in turn donated many of them (including Filming 'The Trial) to the Munich Film Museum for preservation and restoration.

In July

"Frozen Peas", alternatively titled "In July", a blooper audio recording of Orson Welles

InterGalactic Medicine Show

IGMS has featured original stories by such award-winning authors as Peter S. Beagle, David Farland, Tim Pratt, Eugie Foster, Bud Sparhawk, Mary Robinette Kowal, James Maxey, Mette Ivie Harrison, Sharon Shinn, Eric James Stone and Orson Scott Card.

James Naremore

He has recorded a commentary track with fellow film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum for the Criterion Collection release of Orson Welles's "Mr. Arkadin" (1955) and for the Universal 50th anniversary DVD of "Touch of Evil" (1958).

John Ng

He was martial arts choreographer in the film Snake in the Monkey's Shadow (aka. Hou hsing kou shou aka. Snake Fist vs. the Dragon) produced by Goldig Films Ltd. in 1979.

July 2000 lunar eclipse

The moon passed through the very center of the Earth's shadow.

Lennie Weinrib

H.R. Pufnstuf - Voices of H.R. Pufnstuf, Bela Lugosi Tree, Dr. Blinky's Talking Book, Orson Vulture, Polka Dotted Horse, Stupid Bat, Pop Lolly, West Wind

Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show

Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show (2008) is an anthology edited by Edmund R. Schubert and Orson Scott Card.

Orson Welles' Magic Show

After Orson Welles' death in 1985, all of his unfinished films were bequeathed to his long-term companion and mistress Oja Kodar, and she in turn donated many of them (including Orson Welles' Magic Show) to the Munich Film Museum for preservation and restoration.

Paul Masson

The Paul Masson brand is best remembered for its 1970s marketing association with Orson Welles, who promised for Masson: "We will sell no wine before its time." An infamous outtake for one commercial from the Orson Welles campaign features Welles attempting to deliver his lines while very severely inebriated.

Portrait of Gina

It was intended to be the pilot for a television series called "Around the World with Orson Welles", which is also the name of a series Welles made for the BBC in 1955.

Richard Lockridge

Richard Orson Lockridge (September, 26, 1898 in St. Joseph, Missouri - June 19, 1982 in Tryon, North Carolina) was an American writer of detective fiction.

Sarah Pratt

Sarah Marinda Bates Pratt (1817–1888), first wife of Orson Pratt; later a critic of Mormon polygamy

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow

As well as original music by Chou Fu-liang, the film also features Jean Michel Jarre's "Oxygène (Part 2)" and Space's "Magic Fly".

The Emperor's Shadow

According to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, Gao Jianli was a friend of the assassin Jing Ke, who fails in an attempt upon Ying Zheng's life.

In one of the climaxes of the film, the king states his belief that through music he can "control the minds and hearts of the people", echoing Mao Zedong's Yan'an talks of 1942.

The Mercury Wonder Show

A section of the stage show — in which "Orson the Magnificent" performs tricks like sawing Marlene Dietrich in half — was filmed and included in the 1944 variety film Follow the Boys.

The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

After Orson Welles' death in 1985, all of his unfinished films were bequeathed to his long-term companion and mistress Oja Kodar, and she in turn donated many of them (including The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh) to the Munich Film Museum for preservation and restoration.

TWA Flight 3

In the book My Lunches with Orson, Orson Welles claims that he had been told by a security agent that the aircraft was shot down by Nazi agents who knew of the route in advance.

U.S. Acres

Mort, Gort, & Wart (voiced by Frank Welker, Thom Huge, and Howard Morris, respectively): Orson's three larger, meaner brothers who played a much bigger role in the cartoon than they ever did in the comic strip, where they were unnamed.


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