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...MYSTERY OF CITIZEN WELLES ORSON WELLES: A BIOGRAPHY by Barbara Leaming; Viking; 562 pages; $19.95 ORSON WELLES: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN GENIUS by Charles Higham; St. Martin's Press; 373 pages; $19.95 THE MAKING OF CITIZEN KANE by Robert L. Carringer University of California; 180 pages...
...saying, 'We agreed when I was pregnant that you would not take any responsibility for my child, but I would like you to see what a fine boy he's grown up to be.' And there's a picture of a grown-up boy on the beach." But, says Orson Welles, "I don't remember having met her . . . I don't believe it's true because I don't think I have that poor a memory. But anything is possible...
...knowledge of his life, combined with her gushing admiration, persuaded him to keep talking. Welles recounted his weird childhood. His father was a failed inventor who became an alcoholic, his mother a failed pianist who died when he was nine, and his older brother a schizophrenic. At 18 months, Orson was "discovered" by Dr. Maurice Bernstein, a family friend, who pronounced the tot a genius and supplied him with a violin, paints and a puppet theater, while ardently courting the genius' mother...
MAYBE THE CAMERA CREW for Kerouac should have taken lessons from the makers of "Pull My Daisy" a 20-minute film which precedes Kerouac at the Orson Welles. Written and narrated by Kerouac in the late 1950s, "Pull My Daisy" is a humorous day-in-the-life tale of a few Beatnik writers during an afternoon and evening of goofing...
...lost souls" out to find themselves, his premise of an idealist lost in the anti pastoral post-war haze of reconstruction is nonetheless an interesting one. It suffers, however, from Schepisi's overly artful direction and pacing. In an attempt to recreate the vanguard, new wave look of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, cinematographer Ian Baker arbitrarily splices the film every twenty minutes or so in order to mark the passage of time, eschewing the more conventional and smoother dissolving methods. The problem, of course, is that Baker isn't Welles and his product is nothing more than a pretentious, inferior...