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First 3 words: MY DOCTOR TOLD
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"... He originated the media's fake news industry by announcing a Martian attack in New Jersey,...COMPLETELY false. They announced at the beginning of the program that it was a dramatic presentation of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds." And reports of panic were vastly overblown to bolster the acclaim for the broadcast.
Welles was a talent we're not likely to see the likes of again.
At age 16 he conned his way into his first acting job in a theater in Dublin by claiming he was a famous 21-year-old New York stage actor. He supported the claim by reeling off a long list of glowing reviews from memory which he claimed to have received on Broadway.
The theater manager later claimed he realized he was being had but the story was so audacious and his acting so spot-on (to include in the audition) that he hired him anyway.
The War of the Worlds incident gave him the acclaim and financial clout to produce the film "Citizen Kane." Writing, producing, directing and starring in the most acclaimed film in all cinematic history in his freshman effort was akin to hitting a walk-off grand slam in the 9th inning of the 7th game of the World Series in your first major league at-bat. And Hollywood loathed him for his brilliance, and the fact that to him a film was never about numbers, never about the P&L sheet, and always was about the art. Only the art.
He moved to Europe in 1947 because he was despondent over the lack of control he had in Hollywood. His brilliant acting performance in 1949's Film Noir classic, "The Third Man," finally gave him the fan base he needed so he could demand a princely sum for his acting roles, even small ones. And he spent the rest of his life taking bit parts in other people's films to raise money for his own projects (some of which were never finished).
His production of "Othello" won the Grand Prize at the 1952 Canned film festival, proving he was not just a one-hit wonder.
He staged a production of "Moby Dick Rehearsed" in a London theater, completely without scenery or props. He relied on the actors to "sell" everything from the ocean to the ship to the whale itself. Actors rocked in sync to give the effect of the ship pitching beneath their feet.
He spent the entire decade of the 60s filming and editing and re-editing his production of "Don Quixote." The editing proved so laborious (and expensive) that Welles learned the art of editing so he could do it himself. He said, "To film is human, to edit, divine." The project ran him so near out of money that he resorted to tracking down Darryl F. Zanuck in a restaurant in Nice, France. He prostrated himself before Zanuck and lying in the floor pleaded for a loan with which to finish the film's editing. Selznick wrote him a check for $100,000.
Orson Welles was a Michelangelo playing to a world that only would allow him to carve his masterpieces in plaster of Paris.
