Saturday Night Massacre

[Tony]

To keep it OT, didn't Welles have a Saturday Night Massacre during the making of The Other Side of the Wind when he fired everybody?

[Terry]

Did he?

Oh that tempermental Orson. Helluva way to shoot a picture.

Regarding that old tape of the news broadcast, I'm afraid I'd entirely forgotten that John Chancellor ever existed. It was only after listening to him for about half an hour that suddenly his bespectacled visage surfaced in my mind. Cool also to hear Tom Brokaw and David Brinkley again, and Sam Donaldson must have been a mere baby.

I also dug up a tape of Edward Murrow talking about Milo Radulovich. That must be pretty old.

[Tony]

Well, he hired them all back the next day.

[Terry]

Is that Robert Wise meant when he said things were never on an even keel with Orson; they were either up or they were down?

Hum, I won't say manic depressive because that would be psychobabble!

[Tony]

yeah, I tend to think of Orson as a reasonable guy, but there are so many instances of pure craziness that I can never forget, and the saturday night massacre is one of them. Everyone just went home and waited for the call.