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David Bromwich: This was Orson Welles, 3 June 2004
Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life
by Peter Conrad.
Faber, 384 pp., £20, September 2003,0 571 20978 5 Show More
by Peter Conrad.
Faber, 384 pp., £20, September 2003,
“... call up a theme Welles shared with a writer he cared for, Robert Graves or Isak Dinesen or T.H. White, yet the commentary never takes two breaths free of the words and images it has set spinning from a theme by Welles. This performance is an indoor spectacle, in no way compelling, since ideas are never allowed to develop beyond a sentence or two. The ... ”