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How long it will take [Simon Callow]'s [Orson Welles] to wave that goodbye is anyone's guess. Hello Americans, which covers a mere six years of Welles's life, clocks in at more than 500 pages. Welles's first quarter century, chronicled by Callow in The Road to Xanadu (1995), was longer still.
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The Giant Boy
The giant boy Orson Welles: hello Americans Simon Callow Jonathan Cape, 507pp, £25
"Orson is coming! Orson is coming!" So chanted the crowds at the Rio carnival in 1942. The local newspapers were no less stirred. One took to writing about what i...See the full content of this document
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