This is Orson Welles
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This is Orson Welles
Orson Welles , Peter Bogdanovich , and Jonathan Rosenbaum
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In 1992, the first publication of This Is Orson Welles brought a priceless document to light. In the late '60s and early '70s, filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich had conducted extensive interviews with Welles, but a number of circumstances--including the director's decision to compose an autobiography that he never got around to writing--kept the interviews out of the public eye. Edited and annotated by Jonathan Rosenbaum, these conversations give wonderful insights into Welles's craft and personality. He discusses his forays into acting, producing, and writing as well as directing, his confidences and insecurities, and his plans for film projects that were either never made or only partially completed. He also offers insights into the triumph of Citizen Kane and later masterpieces like The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Othello, and Chimes at Midnight. His defense of his controversial adaptation of Kafka's The Trial is so fascinating that readers might want to rush out and rent the film.

While the book is worth owning just for this 322-page interview, it is also full of other material that is equally revealing. Rosenbaum presents a meticulous chronology of Welles's life, closely following his day-to-day activities from his birth in 1915 to his death in 1985. Anyone who thinks that Welles was an essentially lazy and profligate artist will be astonished at how hard he worked and how much he accomplished, even after the completion of Citizen Kane. Another treat found in the book is a detailed description--complete with rare photographic stills--of the original Magnificent Ambersons, Welles's impressive follow-up to Kane, which can now be seen only in a tragically truncated version.

This 1998 reissue of the volume contains a fond new introduction by Bogdanovich and another crucial piece of Welles minutia, excerpts from his 58-page memo to Universal Pictures about the editing of Touch of Evil. Forty years after its composition, the material in this memo has been used to create a restored "director's cut" of the film. With such grand material between two covers, This Is Orson Welles is the most informative and entertaining book available on one of the 20th century's greatest artists. --Raphael Shargel

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Spanning over ten years ofrevealing conversations between Orson Welles and his friend and fellow directorPeter Bogdanovich, these discussions offer an intimate, autobiographicalportrait of the life and opinions of one of our century's greatest storytellers,Orson Welles. This is a rare look into the mind of an enigmatic genius whoseaccomplishments continue to dazzle audiences.

Contents •Tape One: Citizen Kane and other projects •Tape Two: The Magnificent Ambersons, Chimes at Midnight,and The Other Side of the Wind •Tape Three: Othello, Touch of Evil, The Lady FromShanghai, and The Trial •Tape Four: Radio, Televison, Comics and more

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4 out of 5 stars Words 10, Pictures 3.......2007-07-20

I enjoyed this book very much. It's a good read, informative and entertaining. Fans of Welles will feel that they are sitting in on a conversation between him and Bogdanovich (who asks insightful and pertinent questions, not noticeably obseqious), and that's lots of fun. You learn things about movies and about Welles, and even his evasive responses are interesting.

What nobody has mentioned so far is the photographs. There seems to have been some problem with the printing, and they look, in my copy at least, like 12th-generation photocopies: washed-out, grainy and almost indecipherable. Too bad, because there are a lot of them, some of them historic, and they are just really hard to look at. I don't understand it.

5 out of 5 stars The man, the plan, the life........2004-10-21

As the cover quip suggests, this IS a treasure trove of insights.
I have been totally inspired by this man's conviction and boundless enthusiasm. His conception of theatre is unique and phenomenal, I dont think we will ever see his like again, not with the dumbing down of the world and aesthetics, etc.

I understand the rawness and points of many a play thanks to this man. His voice is hypnotising and authoritive.

Can genius like this ever see the light of day again?

5 out of 5 stars Oh, Orson... you glorious self-promoter..........2004-02-22

has a very distinct voice. It has the voice of Orson himself.

Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the book was the voyeuristic personal insight I was able to get from Welles and-despite his relatively passive role of interviewer-Bogdonovich as well. In this sense, is quite unlike the other required texts, and I do not read too much into the title of "author" that is loftily bestowed upon Bogdonovich and Welles. Through a brief surface comparison between this book and several other texts on Welles, it's clear that there is a great difference between a removed, historical opinion and a defensive individual discussing his own life. Although much could be said about Welles' misleading-albeit thoroughly entertaining-statements, I cannot fault a man for being unable to have sound perspective on his own affairs. I can only read the book as a historical text, but Welles was being asked questions about his life, and I cannot fault him for his oft-grandiose replies. The sheer nature of an interview such as this places an enormous amount of attention on Welles, so I can only smile pleasantly at his recurring ego, wondering if I could be any more impartial or less boastful in his place.

Back to the question of authorship though.

While I readily disregard comparisons between and, say, Thomson's due to their drastic differences in intent, tone and content, the strong yet shadowy hand of the omnipotent editor is ever present in all forms of biographical text. Cut this, change that, add this, move that. A book like Thomson's may greatly benefit from such professional revision, but in the cases of I felt as though the authorship accreditation was misplaced. "Edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum" should have graced the cover, replacing the names of Welles and Bogdonovich. Much like any documentary invariably guides an audience along a certain path, Rosenbaum has reconstructed the interviews amidst other such historical documentation in a very calculated and meticulous fashion. In this sense then there is no author at all, and I find it very difficult to discuss the book as a biography written by anyone.

In truth, this may be one of the worst biography's one could possibly pick up if they wanted to learn more about Welles and his life, and I doubt I would call it a biography at all. As required course reading, I am wholly appreciative that I was given the chance to "hear" the words of Orson Welles as he spoke of his own creations, idly gossiping about other actors and filmmakers. Is it all truth? No, it is laughably biased, but it is the bias of Orson Welles, and definitely a very unique variation on accepted truth. If I can trust that Rosenbaum left the integrity intact, then Welles' half-truths are just as important to understanding the man than commonly accepted "whole-truths" by some biographer.

Whereas can never stand on its own as an investigative biography of the filmmaker's life, it remains as the text that helped me to understand the man behind the myth above all others.

5 out of 5 stars Rosebud Reigns Supreme in Filmdom.......2003-09-15

As one who had just completed a viewing of Ciitzen Kane on DVD
(featuring the excellent audio commentary on the film by Roger Ebert & Rudy Behlmer) I turned to Frank Brady's excellent biography.This is Orson Welles completes my examination of this giant of film directorship. Over several years and in many locals the Falstaffian Welles shares his thoughts on film, his own movies and life with his devoted student Peter Bogdonovich
(himself a talented director best known for "The Last Picture Show'). If you want to know what Welles really thinks and believes this book is the Rosetta Stone for your investigation!
As Truffaut was able to discuss his life and films with Sir Alfred Hitchcock so does Peter B. do the same thing for Welles.
After all the reading and studying of Welles the man emerges as a titanic force of nature whose undisciplined genius is a wonder to behold. Any fan of Welles or Cinema should add this excellent book to your library. Well Recommended!

5 out of 5 stars Orson Welles: The Man and his Movies, Larger Than Life.......2002-08-28

I commend to the book above, an interview with Peter Bogdanovich.
Although I'm not a huge fan of the latter's movies (with the exception of "Paper Moon," which I loved ever since it came out when I was eight, and fell in love with tomboy Tatum O'Neill forthrightly), I have begun reading about half of this book over the past few days, and find it better than my previous favourite, the Hitchcock/Truffaut book. Of course, much favoured above Wilder/Crowe, namely because of Crowe's incessant name dropping of "Jerry Maguire" and "Tom Cruise" every other irritating sentence, which prevented the reader from finding out what
Wilder had on *his* mind.

What impresses me about the Welles/Bogdanovich volume is the raucous sense of humour Welles brings to the conversation, always as lively and as larger-than-life as Welles was. Also, Bogdanovich has laced the book with pertinent interviews, articles, anecdotes that elucidate certain points of the text, as well as Welles' lines cut from "Magnificent Ambersons" and the long memorandum he wrote to Universal studio chiefs and cc'd to Chuck Heston, trying to save what I consider his masterwork,
"Touch of Evil" from falling prey to overzealous editing by indifferent studio hacks.

But most of all, I am touched that when all the world was dumping on Welles, when he was being derided as a has-been and a spendthrift, that up-and-coming director Bogdanovich gave him his friendship and accorded him the respect he was so shamefully denied. Even Pauline Kael couldn't resist savaging Welles, and she wrote a particularly nasty and libelous article that Welles didn't write any of the screenplay to "Citizen Kane."

Of all Hollywood's sins (and I retain in memory a cross-indexed catalogue of them), the fact that even when Welles started getting "lifetime achievement" accolades, he still couldn't get any financing for his movie projects, on which he worked until his last days, leaves the bitterest taste in my mouth. There must be certain people destined to the lowest rungs of hell -- or at least purgatory -- for creating a world in which Orson Welles' last paid acting role was as the voice of the evil planet in a "Transformers" movie.
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    Orson; Bogdanovich, Peter; Rosenbaum, Jonathan (editor) Welles
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    If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth (Unabridged)
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    5 out of 5 stars Loved It!!!.......2007-01-18

    I loved Barbara's book on Bette Davis...so I thought I'd read her book on one of my other favorites...Rita Hayworth. It was soooooo good!!! I had to take time away from watching TV and downloading internet porn to keep reading! I could not put it down.

    4 out of 5 stars The Private Anguish Of Hollywood's Love Goddess.......2006-06-05

    If you ever find yourself wishing that you could live someone else's life, or thinking that celebrities have an ideal existence, read this book biography of Rita Hayworth. Barbara Leaming meticuliously researched the actress's life, from her traumatic childhood as her father's dance partner and incest victim, her mother's alcoholism, her crippling shyness, and her deep insecurities that affected her relationships, her career, and finally, her tragic descent into alcohol abuse and Alzheimer's disease. She was forever after identified with her signature performance in "Gilda", defining an image that would last a lifetime, and from which she was desperate to escape.
    Her choice of husbands often reflected the controlling traits of her father,
    and her sad estrangment from her late daughter, Rebecca Welles, are just a few parts of this compelling, poignant biography. As this was before abuse was discussed and therapy was made available, Rita hardly could have been expected to live a demon-free life. Her youngest daughter, Princess Yasmin Khan, continues to raise funds and spread awareness for Alzheimer's research. We can only imagine the pain and anguish that Hayworth's loved ones and friends experienced as her mind deteriorated to the point where she did not recognize them. It would have been nice if the book had expanded upon her relationship with her five-time costar, Glenn Ford (who is only twice mentioned), with whom we now know she shared much more than a friendship. This book is a touching tribute to a woman who appeared to live everyone's fantasy life, surrounded by stars, wealth, power, success and public adulation, but in reality lived a nightmare of pain, abuse, low self-esteem and pathos. Peace and love to the lovely Rita.

    5 out of 5 stars Wonderful biograhy of Rita Hayworth.......2000-09-23

    This is a wonderful biography of Rita Hayworth my favorite of all the biography's oh her. I think Mrs. Leaming did a wonderful job on the people she interviewed including rare informantion from Rita's second husband Orson Welles which she also wrote a biography on. I recommened this book to every Rita fan.

    A great biography on one of the most beautiful women to ever grace the screen.

    5 out of 5 stars Wonderful biograhy of Rita Hayworth.......2000-09-23

    This is a wonderful biography of Rita Hayworth my favorite of all the biography's oh her. I think Mrs. Leaming did a wonderful job on the people she interviewed including rare informantion from Rita's second husband Orson Welles which she also wrote a biography on. I recommened this book to every Rita fan.

    A great biography on one of the most beautiful women to ever grace the screen.

    4 out of 5 stars The tragic life of Hollywood's "Love Goddess".......1999-02-01

    Leaming takes a psychological approach to her film star subjects, backed up by key interviews and archival and print documentation. The story of Rita Hayworth, Hollywood's Love Goddess, is poignant and well told. Hayworth was identified with her screen role, Gilda, the fiery, redhaired temptress who drove men wild. In real life, though, as she was supposed to have said, "Men go to bed with Gilda and wake up with me," a sad and ironic commentary on movie-fed fantasy. None of her five marriages lasted long, and she was involved in countless lawsuits with husbands, her studio (Columbia), and ex-husbands. Leaming posits a possible reason for her failures as a lover, wife, and mother, that is, that she may have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of her father, Eduardo Cansino. Mature-looking beyond her years and a talented dancer, she was her father's dance partner at 12, working to support her family in gambling casinos and other dives south of the border. Leaming backs up her assertions by relating Hayworth's adult behavior to that of incest survivors. She makes a provocative case, but since Hayworth died prematurely of Alzheimer's disease and never spoke on the subject, it has to remain pure--but nonetheless tantalizing--speculation. A fascinating read, and a sad one.

    Miss Peggy Lee: A Career Chronicle
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    4 out of 5 stars JAZZTIMES Review.......2006-02-15

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    By Robert Strom (McFarland)

    In 1989, Peggy Lee made a noble, if misguided, attempt at autobiography with the frank but frustratingly uneven - and occasionally fictionalized - Miss Peggy Lee. Since then, not a single, decent Lee biography has been forthcoming (though at least a couple of promising volumes are rumored to be in the works.) Until a genuinely worthy portrait does surface, this labor of love from Lee aficionado Robert Strom should help keep the diehard fans entertained.

    Based on painstakingly extensive scrapbooks (numbering some 2,400 pages) assembled by Lee's most ardent booster, the late Ronald Towe, Strom's Chronicle provides nearly a day-to-day account of her career, augmented with references to various personal milestones (marriages, divorces, the birth of daughter Nikki, etc.) and a first-rate CD discography. If you ever wondered what, say, Variety thought of the singer's March 1960 appearance at Basin Street East or what she sang on The Danny Kaye Show on December 21, 1966, this is the book for you.

    Much like Joel Whitburn's invaluable Billboard reference works, it's the sort of tome you'll dip into for a specific fragment of information and find yourself, an hour or two later, still engrossed in the minutia of her colorful professional life.

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    4 out of 5 stars Big Band Jump Review.......2006-02-15

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    Miss Peggy Lee: A Career Chronicle
    By Robert Strom

    Remember when you were in school and you kept a diary? The entries might have been something like: "Got up, school, ham sandwich for lunch, played baseball after school, hit another homer and had one RBI." Think also that you had photographs of these moments, made even more meaningful with the passage of time. Unfortunately most of us lost those diaries, and fewer still kept them for more than a few months. We mention this because that's what Robert Strom's new book is, a diary of key events in the life of Peggy Lee along with photographs. What an absorbing book it is!

    For years Strom headed up the Peggy Lee fan club and had access to not only personal comments from Peggy Lee, but a wealth of photos, clippings quotes, sheet music, record reviews and the contents of a thirty year scrapbook kept by one of Peggy Lee's loyal fans (the late Ronald Towe). Combined with his obvious devotion to Miss Lee and the information gathered through the years, and you can see why this book has taken on a warmth and a personal approach seldom reflected in similar works.

    The first twenty years of Peggy Lee's life, from 1920 to 1940, are handled year by year with generous narrative telling us of her early life in Jamestown, North Dakota. Peggy Lee, then Norma Egstrom, was just four when her mother died. We read of her father's remarriage to a woman who was the quintessential evil stepmother and her early singing jobs in North Dakota. One interesting note: At age eight Norma told a playmate she wanted to be a singer; at age ten she wrote her first song, "If I Could Swing With A Band." A series of club jobs, a disappointing first trip to Hollywood, a stint at the Ambassador West in Chicago where she was heard by Benny Goodman, and she wound up "Swinging With A Band."

    No need to go into detail here: the Peggy Lee chronicle monitors her departure from Goodman to retire and have a family, her contract with Capitol Records after a "one-time" recording session, her radio appearances and her move to Decca in a dispute over her proposed recording of "Lover." Television, posh club appearances including Casino shows, excerpts of reviews and interviews; all are included in this tribute to a lady who could not only sing, but could act and compose.

    Even if you don't read a word, the generous use of photographs, some rare, some seldom seen, provides entertainment. An appendix is devoted to a selective listing of Peggy Lee's CDs, another to the songs written by her noted by year.

    McFarland Publishers - www.mcfarlandpub.com 311 pages, 98 photos & illustrations. $49.95 or less at any large bookstore.

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    5 out of 5 stars This Chronicle Is A Treasury.......2005-05-05

    Robert Strom's Miss Peggy Lee: A Career Chronicle is more than a chronicle: It is a treasury. The amount of love, energy, and time that has gone into this project is evident from cover to cover. The rare photos, and there are many, provide a rare glimpse into this performer's career and life. The presentation is superb: I predict this book will become a touchstone for any future biographers. The Peggy Lee estate owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Strom for the honor and recognition he has bestowed on Ms Lee.

    52 Tips for Texas Hold 'em Poker
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    1 out of 5 stars Very basic tips.......2007-05-13

    Mostly tips for limit texas holdem, very little on no limit. Very basic level tips, not as good as i thought it would be

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    I play poker with the boys on Monday nights, and when we first started playing I wasn't doing as well as I wanted. In fact, I kept losing all my money to them! So I decided that I would take matters into my own hands. A friend recommended this book to me, so I picked it up here on Amazon. I wasn't very interested at first because I didn't think a book could tell me what I really needed to know about how to play poker. But boy it proved me wrong! I learned how to read my friends a lot better, and I also learned how to keep my own cool when I had a good hand (or I was bluffing big time). I would recommend this book for anyone who wants to improve their A game, or knows they aren't that good across the board. Trust me, you need this book no matter what your level of playing is at.

    5 out of 5 stars A must-have for any poker player!.......2006-09-16

    So I've really gotten into Texas Hold'em lately, I play a lot with my friends and sometimes on Party Poker Net. My game was pretty good before, but this book really helped me tighten up my skills and taught me a few tricks I hadn't thought of before. My favorite tip is number 17, where he says to bet on the flop if no one else has yet. You wouldn't believe how much this pushes people to fold and gives you the pot! If you want to win every time, grab this book and carry it around like your best friend.

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    I got this book to learn how to play poker because I never have anything to do when my friends get together for a game. There are a lot of simple tips and basic strategies that were really easy for me to remember and follow. Now I am a regular in my friends poker game and I do really well thanks to the advice that Shulman gives. It is definitely worth getting if you want to learn.

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    This book assumes that you have much of that beginning knowledge, particularly which hands to play in what position, and adapts those strategies to no-limit. The book focuses on your hand and stack size relative to others at the table and shows how to adjust your play to those situations.

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    4 out of 5 stars Good and compete technical advice.......2007-05-26

    As the title suggests its a series of tips for Texas Hold'Em Poker. Good ones at that. This is the perfect book for a beginner to an intermediate player. I recommend this book if you want polish your playing skills. There are many other books for the professional poker players like Super System I & II. If you are a intermediate poker player read this book. It will give you the technical tips you need to play, and then read Phil Hellmuth Presents Read 'Em and Reap: A Career FBI Agent's Guide to Decoding Poker Tells. It attacks the body tells that are the other half of the poker equation. I do recommend this book ("Read'em and Reap" By Joe Navarro) if you are serious about poker.

    1 out of 5 stars not very useful.......2007-02-19

    I suppose an editor should be able to write, but this is low on the list of helpful books - you might pick up one or two ideas, but you are better off spending your money on Phil Gordon, or even better - Dan Harrington's books

    1 out of 5 stars Buyer Alert!.......2006-11-22

    Actually this is not a bad book. I rather like the way Shulman breaks up his advice into "bite" sized tips. So the effect is reasonably readable, although if you are a reader of "Cardplayer" magazine you are probably familiar with the material.

    I call attention to the so-called "reader" reviews in this section. Word usage fingerprint statistics make it very unlikely that more that 2 persons could have written the first five reviews. One claims that this book significantly improved his game. He writes this 2 days before the book was released!

    Three of the "reviewers" have the same rather original thought. They point out that this book might improve your relationship with men in some way.

    As of this date, none of the first five "reader reviewers" have ever given a rating to a book less than 5 stars. And four of these "independent reviewers" have also reviewed a book called "Trust" by Charles Epping. And guess what? They all gave it five stars.

    This is not a bad book. But it would be exceptional for an honest reader-reviewer to give it five stars.

    5 out of 5 stars I improved my game and you can too!.......2006-10-11

    I bought this book to help improve my Texas Hold 'Em No-Limit game and I have definitely seen an improvement. I learned how to play poker so I could spend more time with my boyfriend and now I can actually beat him. Put on your poker face and get this book!

    5 out of 5 stars Become a Poker Pro.......2006-10-10

    I love the 52 Tips series! I have been working on my poker skills and I have been wanting to play No Limit Hold 'Em for a while and this book has definitely helped my game. Barry Shulman is active in the poker community, so his tips are from an experienced player. I highly recommend this book to anyone trying to learn or improve their game.

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        The new wave: the Voice of America is being drowned out by a mix of pop-flavored propaganda. What should America sound like?(on the job): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
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          A study in Kuwait of health risks associated with using cell phones.(Table): An article from: College Student Journal
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            The BBC's medical programmes & their effects on lay audiences: A study for the BBC General Advisory Council
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