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Article: BIO TAKES INTIMATE LOOK AT ORSON WELLES' LIFE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 16, 1996
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Byline: DAVID FREEDMAN
Orson Welles' life was so encrusted with fabrication and myth that by the end, in 1985, you wonder if he knew what was true.
Welles didn't much care, and given a choice, he preferred imagination. Or as he put it in the mischievous title of one of the best of his uncompleted movies, ``It's All True.''
Simon Callow is an English actor and director. He was prominent in ``Four Weddings and a Funeral,'' and he wrote a fine life of Charles Laughton. One of the pleasures of his rich biography of Welles is his ability to evaluate the fibs and the facts without leaving out the charm. There's already a shelf of books about Welles, ...