(narrator) orson welles is one of the legendary storytellers.is later films, he tried to push the limits of hollywood style. rosebud ... (richard sylbert) orson welles is the man who started the showing off. he, in 1948 or -9, whatever, at 24 years of age he came out and said, "now i'm going to show you what a director looks like." ever since, we've used his idea not quite as well as he did. (richard sylbert) but he began the director as star. (martin scorsese) i became very enamored of what you can do with film, what you can do in the editing room with film, what you can do with a camera moving. the first time i realized what a director did was when i saw "citizen kane" on tv with orson welles. however, i was very cognizant of a style, beauty and poetry, let's say, in john ford. if you had asked me what john ford did i couldn't tell you he put the camera a certain way and he used a red filter in black-and-white films to make the clouds come out. and he shot it a certain way so that the dust came up and it was an incredible, an incredible, terri

you can watch polanski's "macbeth," you can watch orson welles' "macbeth," and of course the trick is then you have to forget all that and live it. man: ethan, over there is dunsinane hill. history is always written by the victors. as the loser, macbeth is invented as a tyrant. "it is a tale told by an idiot, "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." announcer: "macbeth" on "shakespeare uncovered." captioning made possible by friends of nci major funding for "shakespeare uncovered" is provided by... the national endowment for the humanities... exploring the human endeavor... the howard and abby milstein foundation. shakespeare is an enduring treasure of western art. bringing new audiences to his work is a key reason we're funding "shakespeare uncovered." please join us in supporting your public television station. announcer: major funding is also provided by: rosalind p. walter; the polonsky foundation... virginia and dana randt; the luesther t. mertz charitable trust; and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ethan hawke, voice-over: when you thin

orson wells who possibly your mom had an affair with. >> there's a story with orson wells and my momon wells fan, honey boo boo. do you know that honey boo boo is being dropped from a ball in mcintyre? >> no she's not. what i like about honey boo boo is every time they show an exterior of the house, a train is going by. we're going to actually check in now with honey boo boo spending new year's eve with her family in georgia. she joins us along with her mama june and her sister lauren, pumpkin and aka chubs. how's it going you guys? >> hi! >> oh my god! >> happy new year. >> how are y'all? >> happy new year! >> now, what do you guys do -- what do they do to celebrate in mcintyre? >> we invited a lot of our friends. we open up our property and invite all of our fans and we did a fund-raiser for a friend who got burned out of their home on friday. we celebrate with our fans. we did a little times square here in mcintyre. >> that's a nice thing to do. i know you're a big town booster and is it a christmas pageant or a halloween display that is big for the town? christmas display or -- >

but in 1938, a man named orson welles did a radio broadcast of the story.eing attacked by aliens! ( screams ) were they scared? you bet. but the more you know about something, the less scary it is. here's a picture of the real mars. it looks like a big rusty desert. how can anything live there? good question. and i know just where we can do a little research. d.w.: okay, so i know that it'll take me over two years to get to mars and that i'd weigh almost nothing there but i still don't know whether there's any life on it. dad: scientists haven't answered that question yet. d.w.: well, someone has to do it. it might as well be me. okay, children, it's time for our career day presentations. who would like to go first? okay, d.w. you can start. when i grow up, i'm going to be the first person to set foot on mars. and the first person to be eaten by a giant martian lizard. timmy, shh. mars is called the red planet because... the martian blood glows red in the dark. giant lizards? blood? i don't want to hear this. children, please settle down. are they coming he

. >> without question, this is one of the greatest hoaxes along with orson wells war of the worlds andad, but it's mind-boggling. >> brian: a 22-year-old, and the situation where the whole world, sports illustrated and espn major stories, local stories about the death of his girlfriend at a young age and plays the game anyway and notre dame rallies to incredible season with a bad finish and we turn out the story is not correct. what did the notre dame do wrong or the fighting irish a-d and company do wrong along the way to avoid this. >> this is not in any way meant to be an indictment of jack swarbrick, he they don't know anything until december 26th. but an investigation. it's inconceivable to me and anyone in security, sports security, the authorities were not contacted and that the ncaa was not contacted for security help, but maybe that help doesn't exist from the ncaa. that kid, or that young man, he's not a kid. that young man should have been shut down at that moment. at that moment, going forward, he still was confused and he's taking calls, and they should have said, a securi