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re: "Orson Welles, Our Shakespeare"

Posted by:	singleticket 11:46 pm EST 11/30/13
In reply to:	"Orson Welles, Our Shakespeare" - kieran 02:42 pm EST 11/30/13

I don't think Orson Welles was tragic figure. He worked until the end to pay the bills for the last character he played in life, a high living bon vivant revered by Europeans. After being booted from Hollywood, he returned in middle age to make a masterpiece like TOUCH OF EVIL and ensure his place among the new French auteurs. He was a great artist and artistic innovator who did his work in Hollywood as best he could and left when he couldn't and went on to live, love and booze in chic European locales all the while being showered with tremendous respect. Not King Lear, not Falstaff or even Don Quixote and hardly tragic.

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