XANADU: A CASTLE IN CLOUDS...THE LIFE OF ORSON WELLES
Just wanted to let you know that my piece on the life and career of Orson Welles has been printed at The Thunder Child, and may be found through the link noted below......
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This rubbed me the wrong way: Predictably, Kane performed reasonably well in the artistic confines of New York but fared far less successfully in middle America where its intellectual pretensions fell...
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Even though I haven't read the Welles article, your comments reminded me of how you can't seem to hear anything about Sid Caesar's show without hearing how it was cancelled because TV started catering...
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The Sid Caesar show was sophisticated? Steve, the word "enormity" does not mean "breadth" or "hugeness" or "size," it means ghastly, repulsive, overpowering horror. Also, this: "He even succumbed to...
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Or as Welles supposedly said, when playing The Shadow while also shooting Kane, and getting his lines mixed up, "The Xana du."
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"You supply the prose poems, I'll supply the Xanex."
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"Yes, people between the coasts were just stupid." Oh, the Flyovers are all still troglodytes, right? This comes up every once in a while around here - c'mon, Steve! I've lived in smalltown Ohio, and...
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This was purely a labor of love and admiration for one of our greatest artists. No societal slur or snobbery was ever intended. Steve
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No excuse, dear boy. Old axiom from Chas. F. Kane: It always looks worse in print. (Stop misusing "enormity"!!!!)
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According to Messrs Merriam and Webster, the word also means "the quality or state of being huge : immensity." However, the "enormity" of your complaint has been duly noted. ...Read More
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Steve: Enormousness is big. Enormity makes you throw up.
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My huge Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language, (Unabridged) is the bible of definition, for me. Enormity: 1. The condition or quality of being beyond the limits of measure...
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The second definition is acknowledged only because of popular misuse over the years. It's like the twisting the phrase "I couldn't care less" into "I could care less." We know what the speaking wants...
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I think filming (start thereof) of Other Side should say 1970, not 1980. Otherwise, I'd like to see less of that CF Kane parallel, making it seem as though Orson was sitting in a darkened room all...
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Yep. There is a maudlin tendency to cast Welles as a martyr, and his career as a tragedy. I don't buy it. He produced a lot of good work in his time, and was at it till the end.
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"Maudlin" is Steve Vertlieb's middle name. No, really. Steven Maudlin Vertlieb. (Am I not right, Steve?) I will point out that the piece Steve wrote on the last years of James Bernard, (published in...
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Ted Your Summer activities seem to include savaging me. Surely, I'm not that important. Still, if personal attacks on my work make you happy then I'm delighted to have added immeasurably to the...
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Steve, it's at odds with everything I know about him, everything I saw first hand, everything I heard from Dick Klemensen, Gary Smith (probably his closest friend in the States -- with whom he stayed...
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Ted The comments in your last post were thoughtful and fair minded. That's simply all that I ask. Your friendship is valued. I have no wish to be vilified at the forum, however. I do whatever it is I...
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Aww, sure. Just stop using "enormity" as "enormousness" and we'll be jake. PS (this goes for you, too, you drunken severed head): e·nor·mi·ty�� (ĭ-nôr'mĭ-tē) Sponsored Links ...Read More
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