My lunches with Orson : conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles
- Title
- My lunches with Orson : conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles / edited and with an introduction by Peter Biskind.
- Published by
- New York : Picador, Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
- ©2013
- Author
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- Description
- x, 324 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- Based on long-lost recordings, a set of revealing conversations between the film director and the iconic cultural provocateur unstintingly reflects on topics ranging from politics and literature to the many films Welles wanted to make.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Anecdotes.
- Contents
- Introduction: How Henry met Orson / by Peter Biskind -- "Everyone should be bigoted." -- "Thalberg was Satan!" -- "FDR used to say, 'you and I are the two best actors in America.'" -- "I fucked around on everyone." -- "Such a good Catholic that I wanted to kick her." -- "Nobody even glanced at Marilyn." -- "The blue angel is a big piece of schlock." -- "Kane is a comedy." -- "There's no such thing as a friendly biographer." -- "The Cannes people are my slaves." -- "De Mille invented the fascist salute." -- "Comics are frightening people." -- "Avez-vous scurf?" -- "Art Buchwald drove it up Ronnie's ass and broke it off." -- "It was my one moment of being a traffic-stopping superstar." -- "God save me from my friends." -- "I can make a case for all the points of view." -- Charles "Laughton couldn't bear the fact he was a homosexual." -- "Gary Cooper turns me right into a girl!" -- "Jack, it's Orson fucking Welles." -- "Once in our lives, we had a national theater." -- "I smell director." -- "I've felt that cold deathly wind from the tomb." -- "Jo Cotten kicked Hedda Hopper in the ass." -- "You either admire my work or not." -- "I'm in terrible financial trouble." -- "Fool the old fellow with the scythe." -- Epilogue: Orson's last laugh / by Henry Jaglom -- Appendixes: New or unfinished projects -- Partial cast of characters.
- Call number
- MWES (Welles, O.) 24-770
- Note
- "A Metropolitan book."
- Previous edition: New York : Metropolitan Books, c2013.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-306) and index.
- Author
- Jaglom, Henry, 1939- author.
- Title
- My lunches with Orson : conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles / edited and with an introduction by Peter Biskind.
- Publisher
- New York : Picador, Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
- Copyright date
- ©2013
- Edition
- First Picador edition.
- Type of content
- text
- still image
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-306) and index.
- Added author
- Welles, Orson, 1915-1985, author.
- Biskind, Peter, editor, author of introduction, etc.
- ISBN
- 9781250051707 (paperback)
- 1250051703 (paperback)
- Research call number
- MWES (Welles, O.) 24-770