Touch of Evil Articles

Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, The Lady from Shanghai Orson Welles' career as an actor was both fruitful and frustrating. From Citizen Kane (1941) to Someone to Love (1987), Welles appeared — mostly in supporting roles — in about 70 features made in various parts of the world. There was one brilliant performance in one brilliant film, Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane, but the rest [...]

Dennis Weaver, best known for his roles in the television series Gunsmoke and McCloud, and for his driver-in-distress in Steven Spielberg's made-for-TV thriller Duel, died of cancer on Feb. 24 at his home in the southwestern Colorado town of Ridgway. He was 81. Born in Joplin, Mo., on June 4, 1924, Weaver studied at New York's Actors Studio. He made his Broadway debut in Out [...]

Janet Leigh, Psycho Janet Leigh, whose shower scene in Psycho has become part of cinema's pop iconography, died yesterday, Oct. 3, at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 77. In the past year, Leigh had been suffering from vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels. Though best remembered as the greedy (and unlucky) office worker who gets stabbed a zillion times in the shower [...]