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Many thanks to Mr. Cobos for the corrected translation of his "Don Quixote" article. A fascinating piece! I've gone ahead and replaced my rough draft with a link to the finished product. Muchas gracias otra vez.

http://www.wellesnet.com/?p=280

Have you gotten to the part where Rita has an affair with Howard Hughes?

Why was Welles always trying to launch new projects when he had already left so many incomplete? If I was a potential investor I would have been pretty skeptical of Welles too. I think Welles eventually soberly realized he did not have much of a film in his hands with THE DEEP, and abandoned it as n...

I've never heard that rumor before. Could be some truth to it, but then I think that might be going a bit far in the "fool-for-love" department. Not to finish a film is to murder it, Orson Welles once said. I'll take your word for it Roger, when you say that "The Deep" wouldn't h...

"Dead Calm" is a good movie, but I'm not convinced it would have been better then Welles's film. I forget which one, but one of the Welles books mentions a complete 1970 edit of the film, and Welles himself said that the only two films he did not complete were Quixote and Wind, which impli...

Yes, I was being slightly tongue-in-cheek, but the theory is not completely implausible. For one thing, I don't see how an entire negative of a film can simply "get lost". Would Gary Graver have spoken up about the negative if he knew Beatrice's lawyers would be all over him? Bonnani has s...

Then there's this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKQ1fvcw6qY&mode=related&search=

You're absolutely right, Glenn. The Merv Griffin Show archives by themself sound like a huge treasure trove of Orson Welles's opinions, anecdotes, etc. I believe it was Merv Griffin who persuaded Welles to move his family to Las Vegas, partly so that he could make appearances on the show easily. May...

Fram James Howard's book (circa 1991): Gary Graver confirmed the current position concerning the unreleased films of Orson Welles: "The Other Side of the Wind" is "quietly resting in a vault in Hollywood." Shooting was completed, with "forty minutes edited by Orson Welles.&q...

That's a cool video. So is this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX7Zsd4QKNA