WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

Here's a Wellesian quote from Glenn on D.Q.: When I was a whitebread teenage lad in Northeastern Ohio, we did what boys have always done, speculated on the opposite sex round about. "Face to Grace but Ashtabula," we used to say with the typical coarse adolescent, geographical wit of those who might...

Glenn wrote It would have offended decency for him to show off Oja Kodar publicly as his mistress, to boast of their relationship.... No matter how intelligent and artistically supportive she may have been, he did not want create a Susan Alexander situation in his marriage. But he did put Susan Ale...

Glen wrote, If we might bring all these people together, who obviously have, if not a love for Welles' unfinished work, at least an interest, we might accomplish steps toward a completion, a restoration, of several of them. Would it not be wise, since few of us know all of them (Mauro, halfaorson, ...

Christopher wrote: It should be obvious that Bonannini has acted in a high-handed manner for his own aggrandisement and without any authority or legal grounds. No one would have heard of him if he had not worked with Orson Welles for a year, and the fact that he did does not make him the ultimate a...

Glenn, I have enormous respect for you as a reviewer, which is why I'm so disappointed that you would only give the extisting Ambersons two or three stars. Even in its butchered form it stands head and shoulders above any other film I've ever seen and is the primary reason for my interest in Welles...