Extra Future[Drunken Welles is good Welles][link]:
>This here’s a group of autobiographical interviews Welles laid down sometime in the ’70s, issued as a companion to the Peter Bogdanovich book of the same name.
Narrated by Bogdanovich, who identifies the tapes as from 1968-70. Download at the link.
[link]: http://www.eggcityradio.com/?p=466 “Egg City Radio » Blog Archive » ORSON WELLES”
[A transcript taken from one of Welles’ Sketchbook shows for the BBC][link]. 1955’s passport gestapo seems like a cakewalk compared to 2010’s passport gestapo, yet the more things change…
[link]: http://www.thejanuarist.com/orson-welles-on-privacy-the-passport-and-personal-rights/ “Orson Welles on Privacy, the Passport and Personal Rights | The Januarist”
Inspired by [Jason Kottke’s Apollo 11 broadcast][kottke], the team behind [Me and Orson Welles][movie] is presenting a [broadcast of the Mercury Theater’s infamous War of the Worlds][link], 71 years to-the-minute from [it’s first airing in 1938][war].
The impatient can find the .
[link]: http://waroftheworldstribute.com/ “War of the Worlds Tribute”
[kottke]: http://kottke.org/09/07/apollo-11-live-tv-coverage “Kottke’s Apollo 11 info”
[movie]: http://meandorsonwellesthemovie.com/ “Me and Orson Welles”
[war]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio) “Wikipedia’s page on the 1938 broadcast”
: http://www.archive.org/details/OrsonWellesMrBruns “War of the World’s MP3 on Archive.org”
[In which, among other lovely items][store], you’ll find what I’m currently reading: *[Hello Americans][hello]* by Simon Callow.
[store]: http://astore.amazon.com/philnelson-20 “Extra Future’s aStore”
[hello]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140275177?ie=UTF8&tag=philnelson-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0140275177 “Hello Americans on Amazon”
This is the second volume of Callow’s biography on film legend Orson Welles (the first being 1997’s *[The Road To Xanadu][xanadu]*) and it is every bit as worthy a portrait of Welles as it’s predecessor. It covers Welles’s life post-*Kane*, including the hatchet-job that RKO unleashed on *[The Magnificent Ambersons][ambersons]*. It’s tone is one of someone who neither demonizes or worships Welles, but seeks to find the truths of his life.
[xanadu]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140254560?ie=UTF8&tag=philnelson-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0140254560 “The Road to Xanadu on Amazon.com”
[ambersons]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnificent_Ambersons_(film) “The Magnificent Ambersons on Wikipedia”
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