Much appreciated, Doug. I should also be thankful to whoever translated her French into subtitles. Now that I've discovered a strategy by which I can transmit my text to my source, I'm looking forward to her reaction--especially since I've discovered that she's credited as a "special participant" in Welles' last film, "F is for Fake".
Barry
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:22:58 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>A real 'quality of the words,' for sure, Barry. This is a delight, a
>bit of 'the gossip of eternity' caught on the run....
>
>Doug
>On 28-Apr-10, at 1:05 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
>
>> REMAINS OF ORSON WELLES
>>
>> via Alain Cavalier�s �Vies�
>>
>> I�ll bring you somewhere strange.
>> This huge character comes towards me
>> (he seduced us all),
>> �Do you want to work with (for) me?�
>> I thought life with Orson would be this insane, magnificent . . .
>> Now I�ll show you how it turned out.
>>
>> Come closer. There�s a strange path.
>> Do you want me to guide you?
>> I often led Orson like this.
>> Come into his house.
>>
>> Here�s the screenplay he was working on,
>> �The Other Side of the Wind�.
>> Whenever he started on something he�d
>> soon manage to tangle it up.
>>
>> We had loads of meetings--
>> it�s practically all we did.
>> Once he summoned me. He started to . . .
>> I was liquefied.
>>
>> The woman to whom he left the house
>> must have abandoned it.
>> Oja was Rita Hayworth in residence
>> under Orson�s bed.
>>
>> There�s writing on the door.
>> �Orson Welles & John Huston shoot well�.
>> We were hopelessly filming John Huston. It was almost insane.
>> Everyday that passed drove us into the ground.
>> He liked junk food and junk papers.
>> He died alone in a kitchen.
>>
>>
>> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 4-28-10 (2:59 PM)
>>
>> I left early from a Q & A session with a Korean director whose film
>> I had just seen in order to catch the concluding fourth of Alain
>> Cavalier�s film �Vies�. Knowing that it focused on the detritus
>> remaining in a house abandoned by Orson Welles didn�t prepare me for
>> the energizing language of Francoise Widhoff, a film editor who in
>> effect directs the director to & thru the site without ever being
>> fully visible herself. She�s the source for my text, which I
>> certainly didn�t expect to write. I couldn�t stop writing once I
>> experienced her particular perspective on Welles and the quality of
>> the words which came out of her mouth.
>>
>
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