Word: higham
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Brady encircles his outsize subject with equal parts of anecdote and scholarship. He does not attempt the intimate tone of Barbara Leaming's authorized 1983 biography or try for the high-skid finish of Charles Higham's Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius (1985). Citizen Welles covers more ground and digs deeper, revealing an artistic nomad whose life had too many ups, downs and lateral movements to be treated as a sales chart. The author is a great admirer, crediting Welles as an originator of the film noir genre and a technical pioneer whose influence...
...robe, as he met a nosy visitor in the comedy Bringing Up Baby. Perhaps he wasn't trying to be funny. A new book on Grant insists that he was bisexual and had a fling with -- goodness gracious! -- Howard Hughes. He also spied for Britain and used LSD. Charles Higham and Roy Moseley, authors of Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart, write, "The honest biographer cannot shirk the painful truth, even at the risk of being called deliberately sensationalist." Some risks are no risks...
...Charles Higham...
...Higham has made a cottage industry out of Hollywood biographies (Kate, Marlene, Bette, etc.), and now, by expanding his field from an analysis of Welles' films to a full-scale biography, he balances his harsh criticism of his subject's eccentricities with an admiring portrait of the young Welles as a brilliant innovator on stage and radio. But, the author notes, even then there was "the megalomania that would soon consume him." And he holds to his view that when Welles flew off to Rio to film the carnival without finishing the editing of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), when...
...Although Higham's book suffers from his inability to talk to Welles, it nonetheless seems a more accurate portrait than Leaming's collection of quotations from her hero. Still, if Welles had never started a single film after Citizen Kane, he would remain one of Hollywood's great creators. Now that cinema has become a major field of study in academia, several surveys have shown that Citizen Kane is by far the most thoroughly explicated film. So there is a place in the classroom for The Making of Citizen Kane. Robert L. Carringer, an associate professor of English and cinema...