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My lunches with Orson : conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles / edited and with an introduction by Peter Biskind.

Jaglom, Henry, 1939- (Author). Welles, Orson, 1915-1985 (Added Author). Biskind, Peter. (Added Author).

Summary:

"There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before Welles died. The tapes, gathering dust in a garage, did indeed exist, and this book reveals for the first time what they contain. Here is Welles as he has never been seen before: talking intimately, disclosing personal secrets, reflecting on the highs and lows of his astonishing career, the people he knew--FDR, Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier, David Selznick, Rita Hayworth, and more--and the many disappointments of his last years"--Dust jacket flap.

Record details

ISBN: 9780805097252
ISBN: 0805097252
Physical Description: x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

How Henry met Orson / by Peter Biskind -- 1983, "Everybody should be bigoted" ; "Thalberg was Satan!" ; "FDR used to say, 'You are I are the two best actors in America'" ; "I fucked around on everyone" ; "Such a good Catholic that I wanted to kick her" ; "Nobody even glanced at Marilyn" ; "'The blue angel' is a big piece of shlock" ; "'Kane' is a comedy" ; "There's no such thing as a friendly biographer" ; "The Cannes people are my slaves" ; "De Mille invented the fascist salute" ; "Comics are frightening people" ; "Avez-vous scurf?" ; "ARt Buchwald drove it up Ronnie's ass and broke it off" -- 1984-1985. "It was my one moment of being a traffic-stopping superstar" ; "God save me from my friends" ; "I can make a case for all the points of view" ; Charles "Laughton couldn't bear the fact he was a homosexual" ; "Gary Cooper turns me right into a girl" ; "Jack, it's Orson fucking Welles" ; "Once in our lives, we had a national theater" ; "I smell a director" ; "I've felt that cold deathly wind from the tomb" ; "Jo Cotten kicked Hedda Hopper in the ass" ; "You either admire my work or not" ; "I'm in terrible financial trouble" ; "Fool the old fellow with the scythe" -- Orson's last laugh / by Henry Jaglom -- Appendix. New or unfinished projects ; Partial cast of characters.