Orson Welles News

Metuchen's Robert Kaplow has the answer. His book, "Me and Orson Welles," has been made into a movie starring Zac Efron and Claire Danes and is coming out in theaters this week in limited release in New York City and Los Angeles.

The New York Times previews the new movie ME AND ORSON WELLES, with a brief survey of all the activity that has surrounded one of cinema's greatest directors since he died in 1985.

PHOTO: Director Richard Linlater and Christian McKay who plays Orson Welles on the Gaiety Theatre set of ME AND ORSON WELLES.

A fascinating talk with Christian McKay the star of ME AND ORSON WELLES about playing ORSON WELLES in the Richard Linklater movie opening on November 25.

In this short “preview” interview, the witty and insightful Mr. McKay offers Wellesnet readers some of his thoughts and feelings about playing Orson Welles on both the stage and screen.

Photo: Christian McKay played Orson Welles in his one man show, ROSEBUD:THE LIFES OF ORSON WELLES, which inspired director Richard Linklater to cast him in ME AND ORSON WELLES.

In the vein of "My Favorite Year," this historical fiction set in 1937 focuses on a wide-eyed teen named Richard who lucks into a role in the newly founded Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar" directed by none other than a very young, but still bigger-than-life, Orson Welles .

Hollywood was paying homage to its history and to a great, tried and true character actor who'd also taught generations of screen actors their craft.

Without the burden of a live worldwide broadcast, members of the film academy threw themselves a lively yet relaxed dinner party to honor the first Oscar winners of the season.

ZAC EFRON gets a sex education in our exclusive clip from Me and Orson Welles. His innocent college boy sits wide-eyed as lothario Joseph Cotten decribes his encounter with a lady called Velma.

HARBOUR Lights is playing host to a special screening of Me and Orson Welles plus a satellite question and answer session with director Richard Linklater and actors Zac Efron, Christian McKay and Claire Danes.

A Daughter remembers ORSON WELLES: A talk with Chris Welles Feder on her new book, IN MY FATHER’S SHADOW – Part One

Chris Welles Feder’s wonderful new book about her life and times with Orson Welles, In My Father’s Shadow has just been released by Agonquin Books. Chris Welles began her book tour in San Francisco with a showing of The Lady From Shanghai at the Rafael Theatre on November 2, and earlier that day Alex Fraser and I met with Chris in the lobby of the Orchard Garden Hotel in San Francisco, at the corner of Grant and Bush Streets, only a few blocks from where her father had shot key scenes from The Lady From Shanghai (at Grant and Pine street) in 1946.

You can see pictures of Chris with her father and Rita Hayworth taken by Life Magazine photographer Peter Stackpole at the Wellenet Facebook page...

Me and Orson Welles Synopsis: ME AND ORSON WELLES, Richard Linklater's new coming of age feature set in 1937 stars Disney teen throb Zac Efron, star of High School Musical, who stretches himself as an actor playing the young... ME AND ORSON WELLES, Richard Linklater's new coming of age feature set in 1937 stars Disney teen throb Zac Efron, star of ...

In 1938 Orson Welles surprised, entertained and panicked the nation with his famous War of the Worlds broadcast.

Actually, apologies everybody -- having just returned from a week's sojourn in the land of the Ignoble Frog, I'm frankly too laden with heavy sauces to get a standard WCL together.

Martians will land again Friday night. Seventy-one years ago Orson Welles pulled a fast one on his radio audience.

It's been 71 years since the famous "War of the Worlds" broadcast ... and the panic that overtook a little Skagit County town.

If you are a fan of Orson Welles, H.G. Wells or Zac Efron, then you will appreciate the thought behind the rebroadcast of possibly the greatest publicity stunt since the advent of technological mass communication.

No posters or photographs of Orson Welles hang in the living room of his eldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder.

On Oct. 30, 1735, the second president of the United States, John Adams, was born in Braintree, Mass.

Free Halloween events from a War of the Worlds tribute to a bike tour to "movieoke." For our complete roundup of Halloween events, click here .

Like Halloween ghosts, two figures have revisited us this week through the mists of time.

Heath Ledger won a rareposthumous competitive Oscar for "The Dark Knight" in February.