This was an unsettling year, not just for me, of course, but for anyone concerned about the state of the arts and politics at the federal and civic level. Throughout 2010, my creative output was scattershot at best, waylaid by a seemingly never-ending series of personal and professional setbacks, many of which I wrote about [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Orson Welles’
Beware the Ides of March
Posted: March 15, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many ShotgunsTags: Ides of March, Julius Caesar, Orson Welles, Shakespeare
Soothsayer: Caesar! Caesar: Ha! Who calls? Casca: Bid every noise be still! Peace yet again! Caesar: Who is it in the press that calls on me? I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music, cry “Caesar!” Speak: Caesar is turned to hear. Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March. Caesar: What man is that? Brutus: [...]
Moby Dick, Chapter Eight, Conclusion
Posted: February 8, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Moby Dick Chapter EightTags: Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Orson Welles
What could be more full of meaning?- for the pulpit is ever this earth’s foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God’s quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is the God [...]
“That is the key to it all …”
Posted: February 6, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Moby Dick Chapter EightTags: Moby Dick, Orson Welles
Orson Welles: A Man of a Certain Ego
Posted: February 4, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Pop MattersTags: Deconstruction Zone, Julius Caesar, Me and Orson Welles, Orson Welles, Pop Matters, Rodger Jacobs
My January Deconstruction Zone column for Pop Matters, Orson Welles: A Man of a Certain Ego, is up and running: The creative projects next on the young wunderkind’s slate – the 1937 Mercury Theater production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the 1938 CBS radio production of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, a production [...]
