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Dean Hoffman

2 articles 2016

Dean Hoffman contributed cultural criticism and essays to The Weekly Standard in 2016. His pieces explored the later careers and legacies of prominent figures in film and the arts.

Orson Welles's Protracted Second Act

November 21, 2016 · Dean A. Hoffman, Magazine, Orson Welles

Few tasks have proven more intractable for the show business biographer than constructing a viable, comprehensive, and, above all, convincing life of Orson Welles (1915-1985), a cultural iconoclast whose sheer range of entertainment media personae—actor, director, master of ceremonies, broadcaster,…

The Lion in Autumn

November 18, 2016 · Dean A. Hoffman, Magazine, Orson Welles

Few tasks have proven more intractable for the show business biographer than constructing a viable, comprehensive, and, above all, convincing life of Orson Welles (1915-1985), a cultural iconoclast whose sheer range of entertainment media personae—actor, director, master of ceremonies, broadcaster,…