Selections from taped lunchtime chats between Orson Welles and Henry Jaglom received their first public airing Thursday on BBC Radio 4. The conversations, recorded between 1983 and 1985, were edited by Peter Biskind and formed the basis of the best-seller “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles.” Some Welles’ associates claim […]
Editor’s note: David Acord, author of “When Mars Attacked: Orson Welles, The War of the Worlds and the Radio Broadcast That Changed America Forever,” has graciously shared his thoughts on the infamous broadcast of Oct. 30, 1938 with Wellesnet this month. This is the final installment in his four-part series. More insight into “The War […]
Kudos to Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter for his excellent review of two recent Orson Welles books: Todd Tarbox’s Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts and My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Orson Welles and Henry Jaglom, edited by Peter Biskind. Hot the heels of Matthew Asprey Gear’s superb online […]
Charles Foster Kane’s childhood sled is right up there with Dorothy’s ruby slippers and Dirty Harry’s .44 Magnum handgun in the pantheon of iconic film objects, according to a new book. In “Rosebud Sleds and Horses’ Heads: 50 of Film’s Most Evocative Objects,” Daily Telegraph critic Scott Jordan Harris looks at items ranging from the […]
Editor’s note: Todd Tarbox has generously agreed to share an excerpt from his acclaimed book “Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts” with Wellesnet.com readers. Written as a play, “Friendship” is based on recorded conversations between Welles and his mentor Hill, former headmaster at the Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Illinois. […]
Advertising executive John Annarino recalled his own lunchtime chats with Orson Welles in an article for The Desert Sun. Annarino was creative director for DDB Needham, one of the top advertising agencies in the country. Its clients included Paul Masson wines. Inspired by Henry Jaglom’s best-seller “My Lunches With Orson,” Annarino recalled his meeting with […]
Todd Tarbox, author of “Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts,” (available through amazon.com) spoke at Read Between The Lynes in Woodstock, Illinois, on Saturday, July 27. He has been kind enough to allow Wellesnet to publish his remarks. By TODD TARBOX It’s always a joy returning to Woodstock where I spent […]
By RAY KELLY “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Orson Welles and Henry Jaglom,” which arrives in stores today, is clearly one of the most-talked about Welles books in recent years. Based on lunchtime chats recorded by Jaglom between 1983 and Welles’ death in 1985, the book presents an unvarnished, often unflattering, look at Welles. […]
By RAY KELLY Todd Tarbox, grandson of Orson Welles’ beloved mentor, Roger “Skipper” Hill, has recently published “Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts,” which recounts their life-long relationship in a series of candid and often moving conversations. Available online through Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and other major retailers, “Friendship” is essential reading for […]
By RAY KELLY “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles,” written by Peter Biskind, arrives in stores on July 16. The book from Macmillan/ Metropolitan is based on conversations between the two filmmakers recorded in the final three years of Welles’ life. Wellesnet.com interviewed Henry Jaglom about the book back in […]
While much attention has been focused on “My Lunches With Orson,” Peter Biskind’s upcoming book based on taped conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles, Jaglom has more to say about his friend in a new book “The Best Film You’ve Never Seen.” Jaglom is one of 35 film directors interviewed by Chicago Sun-Times editor […]
The June issue of Harper’s provides a first look at Peter Biskind’s upcoming book “My Lunches With Orson,” based on taped conversations between Orson Welles and friend Henry Jaglom. The excerpt in Harper’s, “Pitches and Moan,” recounts a disastrous lunchtime meeting in 1983 the pair had with an unidentified HBO executive. Welles pitched a story […]