caffeine-headache (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
The second US Trailer for the Richard Linklater's new film "Me and Orson Welles" (starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes) recently popped up online. Me and Orson Welles premiered in very limited release (NY, LA) over the...
Wellesnet (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Although Wellesnet’s upcoming talk with Christian McKay and Richard Linklater on December 1 in San Francisco is now in jeopardy (because of a ridiculous 15-minute time restriction imposed by the “lovely PR people”), I’m happy to be able to share this exclusive report from Chris Welles Feder, who was able to attend the New York [...]
Wellesnet (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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 [...]
Reading Under the Covers (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
"Ignore your children and they will be obsessed with you for life."— Alain de Botton From the moment I saw In My Father’s Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles in the Algonquin Books fall catalog, I knew that I must read the book and speak to author Chris Welles Feder. As the daughter of actor Lionel Stander (a contemporary of Welles), I wanted...
California Literary Review (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Orson had become so famous for his villainous role as Harry Lime in The Third Man that the moment he appeared in public, somebody whipped out an instrument and began playing the theme song. When an organ-grinder began playing the theme while Chris and Orson were crossing Piccadilly Circus, Orson had had it with London. His driver took them way out in the country to picnic in an isolated spot...
Wellesnet (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Wellesnet is co-sponsoring Chris Welles Feder’s first appearance for her intimate new book about Orson Welles, In My Father’s Shadow at the Rafael Theatre, in San Rafael on Monday November 2. Ms. Welles-Feder has long been a supporter of Wellesnet and we do return those duties back to her as are [...]
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
He was not a cold man at all. When you want to have a creative life, it's very difficult sometimes to also fit in a personal life. . . . When my mother was divorcing my father, she was flying to Rio (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and she was stopped at the airport and asked by a reporter, 'Why are you divorcing him?' She said, 'Orson doesn't have time to be married."' [--Chris Welles Feder]...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
What would it feel like to grow up in the towering shadow of Orson Welles? That’s the question that drives this memoir from Chris Welles Feder, the eldest daughter of the iconic filmmaker who left his thumbprint on many an essential film reel — amon...
Bumpershine.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... Turan, Oskar Eustis, Gail Papp (Lincoln Triangle) 11/05/09 Editors of The Onion (Tribeca) 11/05/09 Chris Welles Feder (82nd & Bwy) 11/05/09 Paul Auster (USQ) 11/09/09 KRS One (Tribeca) 11/09/09 Jennifer Burns: Ayn Rand and the American Right (82nd & Bwy) 11/11/09 Harold Evans (86th & Lex) 11/10/09 Gail Buckland: Who Shot Rock’n Roll (Lincoln Triangle) 11/12/09 Andre Agassi 12:30 PM...
