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Index
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Introduction: How Henry Met Orson by Peter Biskind
A Note on the Text
P ART O NE 1983
1. “Everybody should be bigoted.”
2. “Thalberg was Satan!”
3. “FDR used to say, ‘You and I are the two best actors in America.’”
4. “I fucked around on everyone.”
5. “Such a good Catholic that I wanted to kick her.”
6. “Nobody even glanced at Marilyn.”
7. “ The Blue Angel is a big piece of shlock.”
8. “ Kane is a comedy.”
9. “There’s no such thing as a friendly biographer.”
10. “The Cannes people are my slaves.”
11. “De Mille invented the fascist salute.”
12. “Comics are frightening people.”
13. “Avez-vous scurf?”
14. “Art Buchwald drove it up Ronnie’s ass and broke it off.”
P ART T WO 1984–1985
15. “It was my one moment of being a traffic-stopping superstar.”
16. “God save me from my friends.”
17. “I can make a case for all the points of view.”
18. Charles “Laughton couldn’t bear the fact he was a homosexual.”
19. “Gary Cooper turns me right into a girl!”
20. “Jack, it’s Orson fucking Welles.”
21. “Once in our lives, we had a national theater.”
22. “I smell director.”
23. “I’ve felt that cold deathly wind from the tomb.”
24. “Jo Cotten kicked Hedda Hopper in the ass.”
25. “You either admire my work or not.”
26. “I’m in terrible financial trouble.”
27. “Fool the old fellow with the scythe.”
Epilogue: Orson’s Last Laugh by Henry Jaglom
Appendix
New or Unfinished Projects
Partial Cast of Characters
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Editor
Copyright
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