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001 2013000291
003 DLC
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008 130227s2013 nyua b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2013000291
020 $a9780805097252 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPN1998.3.J276$bA5 2013
082 00 $a791.4302/33092$223
084 $aBIO005000$aPER004030$aPER010030$2bisacsh
100 1 $aJaglom, Henry,$d1939-
245 10 $aMy lunches with Orson :$bconversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles /$cedited and with an introduction by Peter Biskind.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bMetropolitan Books/Henry Holt Books,$c2013.
300 $ax, 306 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-306).
520 $a"Based on long-lost recordings, a set of riveting and revealing conversations with America's great cultural provocateur. There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before Welles died. The tapes, gathering dust in a garage, did indeed exist, and this book reveals for the first time what they contain.Here is Welles as he has never been seen before: talking intimately, disclosing personal secrets, reflecting on the highs and lows of his astonishing career, the people he knew--FDR, Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier, David Selznick, Rita Hayworth, and more--and the many disappointments of his last years. This is the great director unplugged, free to be irreverent and worse--sexist, homophobic, racist, or none of the above-- because he was nothing if not a fabulator and provocateur. Ranging from politics to literature to the shortcomings of his friends and the many films he was still eager to launch, Welles is at once cynical and romantic, sentimental and raunchy, but never boring and always wickedly funny.Edited by Peter Biskind, America's foremost film historian, My Lunches with Orson reveals one of the giants of the twentieth century, a man struggling with reversals, bitter and angry, desperate for one last triumph, but crackling with wit and a restless intelligence. This is as close as we will get to the real Welles--if such a creature ever existed. "--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aJaglom, Henry,$d1939-$vAnecdotes.
600 10 $aWelles, Orson,$d1915-1985$vAnecdotes.
650 0 $aMotion picture producers and directors$zUnited States$vAnecdotes.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aWelles, Orson,$d1915-1985.
700 1 $aBiskind, Peter.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/252/9780805097252/image/lgcover.9780805097252.jpg