Word: talese
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That work consisted of more than 400 short stories, film scripts of his novel Fahrenheit 451 for Francois Truffaut and of Moby Dick for John Huston, TV adaptations of Bradbury tales, plus poems, articles and plays. By his early 20s, the son of an impoverished electrical lineman had begun to...
Instead, Whelan dwells incessantly on the minute details of Capa's exaggerated tales, correcting almost every fib as he goes along. And in an effort to provide a setting for Capa, the author saturates the reader with the political and social details of Europe from 1913 to 1950. At numerous...
This is the home of sowbelly breakfasts and the Better Baptist Bureau, where the folks will tell you that lying is a hell of a better time than telling the truth and "Patsy Cline never dies." Co-stars Joe Sears and Jaston Williams' talent for spinning tall-tales generates a...
Welles' recollections include not only the famous triumphs but tales about private lives in the world of show business. Like what happened the first time he attempted adultery. The romantic atmosphere was broken when, over the hotel-room radio, he heard himself as the Shadow, asking the familiar and all...
Such tales are richly entertaining, but is it just possible that Welles, who loves both magic and practical jokes, is making some of these things up? Just for fun? As Welles said of his forgotten son, "Anything is possible." But Leaming is such an enthusiastic admirer that she not only...