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Maybe The Guardian has a more exigent editor. Actually, the article is taken directly from the book (pages 6-13). What really ticked me off about the book (aside from its high-handed Higham-ness) was the lack of footnotes. Virtually nothing is attributed.

I'm assuming you mean excerpts, not the whole talk-back...?

To clarify the somewhat awkward syntax in my last post, the "his" and "he" refer of course to Orson Welles -- not Roger Hill... ???

NoFake

The "revised" edition of the Leaming book must be the one published in 1995 and dedicated to Roger Hill "On His Ninetieth Birthday". It includes an epilogue in which she recounts his pointing out to her, on the way to what was to be their last dinner together, a boarded-up building that personified ...

I found a theater website from October 2004. From a quote by the writer -- roughly translated: "It's not a biography. It may be documentary theater. It could also be a lecture. Unless it's a dream. One thing for sure: it is not the truth. But it's even less a lie. So it must be a story" -- it sounds...

Actually, "ourson" means "bear cub" in French...

Looks like "The Dead Candidate" is indeed a dead candidate -- for the role of the Harry Lime "Mr. Arkadin." I just finished listening to it, and -- though it indeed deals with the Buzzo soft drink (excuse my mistyping of the name in my earlier post as "Happy Lime." Maybe I was imputing alcoholic pro...

Orson& Jazz, I'm not sure if this will help (!), but I think the "Buzzo Gospel" episode was titled "Buzz off with Buzzo"...

NoFake

Re: colwood's recollection of Rosenbaum's seven Arkadins, I have the book (a MUST-HAVE, imho) and can help clarify. Briefly -- Rosenbaum goes into extensive and illuminating detail on each -- the seven are: 1) "Greek Meets Greek," a half-hour episode of "The Adventures of Happy Lime" radio series (c...