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Article: Orson Welles at Work.(Book review)
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- September 22, 2008
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Orson Welles at Work by Jean-Pierre Berthome and Francois Thomas. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2008. 320 pp., illus. Hardcover: $75.00.
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Attempting to explain why Orson Welles created a multitude of versions of such films as Macbeth and Othello, critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has posited--simply enough--that the director "loved to work" and "for him all work was work-in-progress."
"To love the process of work to this degree," Rosenbaum continued, "evidently offends certain aspects of the Protestant work ethic." One thing is for certain: it does not offend scholars Jean-Pierre Berthome and Francois Thomas, authors of an ...