WHO KILLED ORSON WELLES? - Variety article.

[Obssessed_with_Orson]

anybody have that article? i want to know who they mentioned.

as for my opinion, i think the list is so long, there's not an ending. including the people that weren't even alive when he died. in other words the young people writing bad articles about him now.

the young writers now, have taken the place of the old fart writers that wrote too much damn negative stuff in the past.

bye now!

[Obssessed_with_Orson]

actually, i think it should be changed to "what killed orson welles?"

let me see:
bad reviews - only about hmm....90% of them were bad
damn good acting, people overeacting too
damn good movie, people overeacting too
jealousy of his youth
jealousy of his good looks
jealousy of his talent
jealousy of his voice
a idiotic producer thinking he bought a damn original sled from an original movie
even an article in mr. woods book says many were used in the title of the subject of the article

AND MORE THAN ANYTHING, TOO MANY DAMN BASTARDS SAYING THIS PHRASE IN THEIR OWN SPECIAL WAYS:

while you're alive and strong
your movie's gonna suck
but when you're dead and gone
we are gonna make the bucks

AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DID! AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DID! AND THAT IS MY OPINION OF WHAT OR WHO KILLED ORSON WELLES!!!

bye!

[Jeff Wilson]

What killed Orson Welles was a heartattack. What killed his career, at least in terms of Hollywood and the mass media, was a number of things, some of them his own doing and some of them not. Welles made, for the most part, movies that were not commercially viable in terms of American box office needs. He also had garnered a reputation that did him damage in gaining financing. I doubt anyone was too terribly jealous of him after the Ambersons/It's All True debacle.

[Harvey Chartrand]

Let's not overlook the lifestyle aspect. Seventy years is a pretty good lifespan for a man of Welles' girth. In a recent interview with Shock Cinema Magazine, actor Paul Koslo recalls seeing Welles order himself a huge birthday cake while shooting his cameo for Voyage of the Damned in Barcelona. Welles was known to consume six steaks at one sitting. He smoked cigars constantly. (I'm not sure if he inhaled, but it wouldn't surprise me if he did.) Though gifted with an incredible energy well into his fifties, Welles always had an aversion to physical exercise.
Beatrice Welles believes the crash diet the doctors put her father on killed him.
Yes, Welles made enemies by the score, but he had developed a very positive philosophy of life that kept him going, despite the hurts and disappointments.

[R Kadin]

Add to all the above the fact that Welles had outlived his immediate family by many, many years. Notwithstanding the surrogate family relationship he enjoyed with the Hills, there's got to be something about having seen all his blood relations disappear so early in his life that must have eventually made him feel like his own natural reckoning was well past due. It might also have partly explained his sybaritic tendencies, whereby each passing day represented another death-defying feat worthy of celebration (and diversionary indulgences to escape the dark spectre's shadow - yes, I will also concede that his father's alcoholic example might have been equally unhelpful in this regard). If so, it was a trajectory later followed - unwittingly, no doubt - by the late John Candy.

[jaime marzol]

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i read in an article that OW was born on the same year, and passed away on the same year as america's first fitness guru, vic tanny did.

interesting to think about.

maybe i should stop going to the gym and start eating large hunks of meat with heavy sauce.

[jaime marzol]

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Whenever anyone dies the conspiracy buffs jump right off the banana trees and they start scribbling for the tabloids.

Elvis is not really dead, he faked his death. But they fail to mention that someone of Elvis’ immature pride would never orchestrate a fake death from a heart attack while he was sitting on the crapper. Elvis was found on his bathroom floor with his huge bvds around his ankles, dead from a heart attack? This was not Elvis’ style. Elvis would have orchestrated something like the ending of Brian De Palma’s SCARFACE. Ninjas attacked Graceland and Elvis went down in a blaze of glory. This is more his style.

Lucky Luciano when he was meeting with a Hollywood producer to discuss plans for a major movie about his life, was given The Borgia drink by the mob and he died at the airport. This has been told in every documentary. Now for the other side of the coin: Luciano had experienced several heart attacks already, was in poor health, and had been gobbling nitroglycerine pills for a few months to deal with the chest pains brought on by years of constant persecution from the Italian authorities. He was not meeting the producer to discuss plans for a movie. He was meeting the producer to terminate the deal. The mob in America had given him the red light on the project, and Luciano needed the screenplay back to destroy it.

John F. Kennedy is a vegetable and living on an island owned by Onasis. I’ve seen blurry pictures of some hunched over figure wearing a shawl, sitting on a wheelchair, watching the ocean. This is the same island that 2Pac is now living on since being crippled by an assailant’s bullet.

Can you picture that? 2Pac, and JFK, wheelchair buddies, watching the sun sink into the ocean from their secret island retreat.

What would 2Pac and JFK talk about? JFK would be telling 2Pac what a great lay Monroe was, while 2Pac is trying to teach JFK the secret rapper handshake. 2Pac: Will you shut up about this monroe bitch already! She can't hold a candle to Queen Latifah!"

Ah, conspiracies, conspiracies. They are-a-poppin everywhere.

the only one that had possibilitie, but it's not true, is that Morrison is still alive. He was very paranoid about the FBI trying to put him in prison over his wanker incident. jim didn't know he could get acid in prison, or he might not have been so paranoid. and i read that only one french policeman identified the body. I've read that french policemen can be bought for a can of snails, and american chocolate bars.

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