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"I got a letter the other day from a woman . . . 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...
Welles was 70 last May, so it is probably time for people to stop calling him an aging boy wonder and recognize that his is one of the saddest stories of success and failure in American life. Sad because such enormous promise has remained so unfulfilled for so long. Welles...
"Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died," Welles observed somewhat bitterly after receiving a special Academy Award in 1970 from a Hollywood that regarded him as too irresponsible to be financed. "They just come along, and while the little needles fall off me, replace...
Welles obviously has much to tell, but he has always been reluctant to tell it, except in occasional bursts of self-promotion. But Barbara Leaming, a professor of theater and film at Hunter College, managed to arrange a meeting at Ma Maison restaurant in Los Angeles early in 1983. Something...
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...