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
the shortcomings of his friends and the many films he was still
eager to launch, Welles is at once cynical and romantic,
sentimental and raunchy, but never boring and always wickedly
funny.
Edited by Peter Biskind, America's foremost film historian, "My
Lunches with Orson" reveals one of the giants of the twentieth
century, a man struggling with reversals, bitter and angry,
desperate for one last triumph, but crackling with wit and a
restless intelligence. This is as close as we will get to the real
Welles--if such a creature ever existed.
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