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My lunches with Orson : conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles / edited and with an introduction by Peter Biskind
| Material Type | Books |
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| Publisher | New York : Picador |
| Year | 2014 |
| Size | x, 324 p. : ill. ; 21 cm |
| Vol | : pbk. ; ISBN:9781250051707 |
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| Language | English |
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| Notes | Includes bibliographical references: p. 303-306 Summary: "Based on long-lost recordings, a set of riveting and revealing conversations with America's great cultural provocateur. 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. This is the great director unplugged, free to be irreverent and worse--sexist, homophobic, racist, or none of the above-- because he was nothing if not a fabulator and provocateur. Ranging from politics to literature to ... |
| Authors | *Jaglom, Henry, 1939- Welles, Orson, 1915- Biskind, Peter |
| Subjects | LCSH:Jaglom, Henry, 1939- -- Anecdotes
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LCSH:Welles, Orson, 1915-1985 -- Anecdotes All Subject Search LCSH:Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Anecdotes All Subject Search |
| Classification | TDC:999 LCC:PN1998.3.J276 DC23:791.4302/33092 |
| ID | LB00227937 |
| ISBN | 9781250051707 |
| NCID | BB2403097X |