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Article: It's All True: Orson Welles's Pan-American Odyssey.(Discovering Orson Welles)(Book review)
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- March 22, 2008
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It's All True: Orson Welles's Pan-American Odyssey by Catherine Benamou. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. 416 pp., illus. Hardcover: $60.00 and paperback: $24.95.
Discovering Orson Welles by Jonathan Rosenbaum. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. 346 pp. Hardcover: $60.00 and paperback: $24.95.
One would think that by this time Orson Welles's reputation would be more secure and untroubled than it is, and that any fluctuations would be between high points on the scale, not extremes of high and low. This is not to say that Welles should be insulated from negative evaluations of his less successful ...