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Article: THE RISE AND FALL OF ORSON WELLES.(L.A. LIFE)(Review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- August 11, 1996
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Byline: Paul Brownfield Knight-Ridder Tribune News Wire
Title: ``Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles''
Author: David Thomson
Data: 461 pages, Knopf; $30
Our rating: Four Stars
In the end, the great Orson Welles was something like 350 pounds, hawking cheap wine and appearing too often on ``The Merv Griffin Show'' in Los Angeles.
``He got into the habit of lunching at Patrick Terrail's restaurant, Ma Maison, on Melrose,'' David Thomson tells us in his arresting new biography of Welles called ``Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles.''