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Hmmm, let's see: Welles's career includes more innovations in radio, on stage, on the screen and on television than can be easily counted. Even posthumously. Mankiewicz's career includes a prolific output of word-dependent screenplays, few of which age at all as well as Kane. Yeah, Mank was the geni...

The product that has been delivered after 40 years is truly astonishing - be it in the context of the era in which it was filmed or that of the present day. It will take me some time and several viewings, I think, to begin to come to proper terms with it. But my elation at seeing it completed defies...

I just stumbled upon this BBC archive item quite by chance. Having listened to and read a great deal of Welles's remarks about Kane, I was delighted to encounter these still-fresh observations and insights, which I invite my esteemed Wellesnet colleagues and visitors to enjoy: https://www.youtube.co...

Nothing like hooking up again with former partners in crime, Mike. Great to see you still kicking it just like old times. Here's to a host of new discoveries of what our visionary was trying to alert us to back when we were likely too mired in the moment to appreciate. For example, looking about the...

As for Cresta Blanca wines today, you might try the output of its apparent successor, Wente Vineyards:
http://www.wentevineyards.com/wine/

...and here's a Wellesian wine connection that long-predates his infamous Paul Massion "period": Cresta Blanca
http://www.orsonwelles.org/search/label/This%20is%20My%20Best

Article from "The Milwuakee Journal", February 8, 1940:
http://magazinesadsandbooks.com/Magazine-Ad-for-Jim-Beam-Kentucky-Bourbon-Whiskey-Orson-Welles-Celebrity-Endorsement-P3024970.aspx

If you're willing to expand the tasting menu to include whiskey, you might substitute a little Jim Beam for the Paul Masson:
http://magazinesadsandbooks.com/Magazine-Ad-for-Jim-Beam-Kentucky-Bourbon-Whiskey-Orson-Welles-Celebrity-Endorsement-P3024970.aspx

After a much-protracted absence, I am delighted to see such a lively and refreshed site still very much here upon my return. Well done to everyone involved. Wellesnet has always been a labour of love - and here is proof positive of the well-traveled adage that "love endures".

Thanking donors for their funds received in response to this call would be a well-advised courtesy.

And not to be forgotten was Welles' use of concentration camp footage that, previously, had been censored for display to the American public. No doubt "The Stranger" was the first time for many in the audience to be confronted with one of the War's - and history's - greatest atrocities.