WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

Tony, Ray, all -- If one searches through Welles' films, especially the later and unfinished films, the number pictures that end with explosions or plumes of smoke is striking, too curious to be accidental. I rather think that they were a signal that more was to come, or that the film was not yet co...

Indeed, Le Chiffre, today is the time to make the move. I rather think that Wellsian fans, who have heard about about THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND since childhood are growing weary. Any chance of renewed financial possibilities for THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND raises hope in their hearts, Let's speculat...

I can't believe that one of you guys did not notice the article by Jonathan Zakarin in yesterday's THE WRAP, but perhaps you are tired of the subject (or it's just August vacation time), but Zackarin reports that Terry Gilliam, looking very like our man Welles, is quoted as saying that his DON QUIXO...

THE STRAIN would seem to have some similarities to MAD MEN and aspects of the life of Orson Welles. The cast is excellent. I think that I shall try to tune in.

Glenn Anders

You know, looking back upon this political discussion, the combination of H.G Wells, the Tofflers, and Glenn Beck is a pretty good one. It has legs. I saw a nice interview with Glenn Beck on CNN (I think) the other night. He didn't look very well, but he explained his change of thought quite clearly...

Dear randyariddle: My memory and reading on the subject would suggest that THE MERCURY THEATER ON THE AIR, a sustaining program, was broadcast live, once for the East and again in the West. Station-breaks would be different on individual stations carrying the program -- not every station did, by any...

And TIME always must march on, tonyw! Deadlines must be met! Dear sierra, I apologize for the gaffe. Why I confused you with Colmena, I don't know. My brain has been playing tricks on me lately. The doctors suggest that I've suffered a mild stroke. Anyway, we are digging out a lot more of the eviden...

Frankly, "The Lives of Harry Lime" bored me, as a teenager, but looking back, I'm of the notion that Welles used them, much of the time, as a kind of notebook for possible later film or TV development.

Glenn

Dear sierra: I must agree with tonyw. Symbolically, Charles Foster Kane's life is over on that afternoon, but his actual death comes some time later. A piece of evidence to support tonyw's interpretation may be found in "The Newsreel." Kane is shown, decrepit and all wrapped up, partly scr...

My favorite interview with Orson Welles, an extremely brief one, comes at the end of a Mercury Theater on the Air rehearsal of "The 39 Steps." Welles has been absent from all or most of the run-through. Someone, probably John Houseman or Paul Stewart, asks if he has any notes or suggestion...

Dear Count: The proof of your novel will be in the writing and verisimilitude. You keep saying that you are moving your plot into "modern times," but if you mean the present, the book becomes a work of science-fiction or obvious fantasy. To appeal to me at least, the timeline needs to be a...

Le Chiffre: What a splendid article by Alex Ross! The Count may readily see the idealistic appeal of Progressivism for Orson Welles. Indeed, as you suggest, MR. ARKADIN contains a disillusionment with making Progressivism work as a political practicality in the face of its totalitarian enemies. Well...

Dear Count: Welcome to Wellesnet! I think we have a motto here, something like, "All Things Wellsian," and so I don't see why research for your proposed novel would not fit into our discussions. See what the others say. Meanwhile, if your research has not turned it up (and it no doubt has)...

Yes, I can substantiate what you say, Roger, about the less familiar clips -- the scenes shown in the interview of the leading man following "The Girl" (Oja Kodar) by car and on motorcycle -- exist in compilations in the possession of Stefan Droessler's Munich Filmuseum. When Todd Baesen, ...

Jed: Thank you for some really interesting research. How you might find it, I can't say [will any pilgrim here ever undertake to compile a real subject index?] -- but in a former life, I wrote an account in these pages of having seen MOBY DICK REHEARSED at the Duke of York's Theater in the Summer of...