"In my father's Shadow" by Chris Welles Feder

[ToddBaesen]

Yes, it's quite reliable, as it comes from Wellesnet's own Lawrence French, even if he told me and Glenn the news after he had downed a couple of James Bond style Martini's at the Ha-Ra Club!

Mr. French also tells me Richard Linklater and Christian McKay will be coming to San Francisco in early December and he will be talking to both of them for an in-depth Wellesnet interview!

[Magentarose67]

Yes, it's quite reliable, as it comes from Wellesnet's own Lawrence French, even if he told me and Glenn the news after he had downed a couple of James Bond style Martini's at the Ha-Ra Club!

Mr. French also tells me Richard Linklater and Christian McKay will be coming to San Francisco in early December and he will be talking to both of them for an in-depth Wellesnet interview!

Thank you, Todd! Good to know it comes from our own Mr. French!

Lucky Mr. French, meeting with Chrisitan McKay !

I swear, if I get annoyed by squealing Zac Efron fans when I see "Me and Orson Welles", I will squeal and go ga-ga whenever Mr. McKay enters the scene ...

Okay, I'm getting off-topic. I am done swooning ...

[Alfred Willmore]

RayKelly wrote:

Welles has a star on Vine Street on the Hollywood Walk of Fame honoring his film career.

He also has a star for his radio career at 6652 Hollywood Boulevard.
But amazingly, he does not have one for theater even though he was one of the most influential Americans in the 20th Century theater. I went to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce about 15 years ago to point out the need to rectify this.

They said they'd be happy to award Welles a star for theater if I would simply write them a check for ___ thousand dollars.

They explained to me that the star dedication is typically paid by producers to promote something.

Don't CinemaNX, Cinetic Media, Detour Filmproduction, Framestore, Fuzzy Bunny Films, Hart-Lunsford Pictures and
Isle of Man Film have something to promote this month ???

[Glenn Anders]

I think Alfred Willmore has made a modest and most reasonable proposal.

Might Todd Baesen get cracking with Mr. French to put his shoulder to the wheel?

Put me down for a small subscription, if Linklater & Co will be forthcoming.

Glenn Anders

[purplepines]

I attended the Saturday afternoon appearance of Chris Welles Feder in Clinton, NJ. About 15 people attended. She said she had just had a milkshake for lunch at a neighboring restaurant. She then read a brief passage from the book and immediately opened the floor to questions. She said she wasn't aware of the status of any future product releases of Orsons, be it Ambersons or Other Side of the Wind DVDs etc. She seemed quite out of the loop in that regard. Even still, I probably should have recorded the audio.

[ToddBaesen]

Thanks for the report from Clinton, New Jersey, where I can only imagine there would have been a lot more people if only THE WAR OF THE WORLDS broadcast had been mentioned.

I can understand such a low turnout in Clinton, New Jersey, but when only 15 people showed up in Los Angeles, that has to be considered rather disgraceful!

[Alfred Willmore]

Thank you, Mr. Thomson, Thanks. As a matter of fact, just the other day, when the Board was full of it, I went to the Ha-Ra Club and I asked Jerry. . . He never heard of Baeson

[Glenn Anders]

Alfie: I really think you should identify your source for that cannard, but at the risk of being accused of talking to myself, worse yet writing to myself (which saps more superating brain cells), I would point out that, only yesterday, a very interesting article on classic San Francisco bars by veteran newsman Carl Nolte appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle "SFgate":

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/a ... 1AJHPP.DTL

An oldtimer reader, a drunken illiterate from the look of the typos (or a cleverly demonic code?), appended this comment:

Macresarf111/15/2009 1:09:27 PM
In more modern times, there is the renowned "Toddy Besen Gimlet," served up by your namesake at The Ha-Ra Club, on Geary near Lakin. The Club dates from the Post-War, when two old middleweight boxers put their purses together to open the place, naming it by a combination of the first two letters from their respective given names. The son of one of the men still owns the business.

Whoever presented this evidence of the actual existence of Todd Baesen, there can be no doubt that the establishment looks forward to the glorious evening when our "darling girls," Memoirist Chris Welles Feder and Songbird Nellie McKay (who channels both Orson Welles and Doris Day), meet with our new Orson Welles' star, Christian McKay, for Todd Baesen Gimlets in the Ha-Ra Club's romantic setting! What beautiful music they would make.

Doubt not, Alfie, lest ye be doubted.

Glenn

[Alfred Willmore]

Glenn, Are YOU Todd Baeson?

[ToddBaesen]

Jonathan Rosenbaum reviews IN MY FATHER'S SHADOW at the Moving Image Source:

http://www.movingimagesource.us/article ... a-20091113

[Glenn Anders]

Jonathan Rosenbaum has written as salient and understanding review of Chris Feder's book as one could imagine.

It is well worth reading.

Bravo!

[tonyw]

Yes, it is such a stimulating review motivating me to buy the book since my appalling university library has now nixed all future book purchases (a week after I recommended it!) due to a budget crisis while a new sports stadium (the old one hardly filled to capacity) gets the green light.

It is significant that Kaylie Jones's LIES MY MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME has also appeared this year, another book dealing with a problematic parental legacy.

[Glenn Anders]

In Academia, it has always been thus, tonyw.

However, I'm sure that you won't regret the purchase.

Glenn

[tonyw]

No, Glenn, and Kaylie's book arrived today. I think the best work in criticism is now being done outside academia by people not under constant threat by the corporate bureaucratic stranglehold on free expression.

[Glenn Anders]

I was thinking of the case at my alma mater, when money was spent to lure to our famously losing football team a minor quarterback (who, incidently, later was picked up by a Canadian league), an act which left no money to support a nationally renowned intramural and intermural wrestling program and its coach. Also, my favorite English professor, a former member of the "New Critics," told me that, during the depression when his group was revolutionizing poetic criticism from its base at the University of Louisiana, Governor Huey Long was given a Tiger by an Eastern potentate. Because of Great Depression budget restrictions, the Governor was faced with the dilemma of using the University's discretionary funds on the school's literary magazine or building a cage to house the tiger.

You may guess the choice Governor Huey Long made.

Glenn