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Orson Welleshttp://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/23/movies/film-hollywood-audition-rites-and-wrongs.htmlFILM; Hollywood Audition Rites . . . And Wrongs
By NEAL KOCH;
Published: August 23, 1992
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LOS ANGELES—
Imagine a job interview in which your prospective boss greets you from the bathtub, offering you the only seat in the room. Imagine handing over your resume, only to be asked to whinny like a horse and romp around. Or to writhe suggestively while your potential employer rates your technique.
The man in the bathtub was a 23-year-old Orson Welles, auditioning would-be Shakespeareans. Women romped like a horse for Forrest Murray, executive producer of the recent thriller "Love Crimes." And Brian De Palma liked Melanie Griffith's technique so much that he gave her her first big film role, in the 1984 thriller "Body Double."
http://www.cinemawithoutborders.com/news/139/ARTICLE/1101/2007-08-18.htmlI sat on the edge of a bathtub, the only available free space on the set at the moment,with John Huston for hours talking about moviemaking (he advised me to write if I wanted to direct). And I got to know a young German distributor by the name of Jorgen. He told me there were another dozen or so of Orson’s films in various stages of completion stored away in a vault somewhere. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if someone like Oja Kodar, Orson’s trusted friend and companion could assemble this footage for posterity?
http://www.wellesnet.com/?p=158What revenue is there in an Orson Welles film about Shakespeare? He couldn't get any money, and he died alone, in this house in Benedict Canyon… and his mistress wasn't there.
So… he died alone, in a bathtub… quite alone. It was a terrible, terrible sadness, so yes the death of Falstaff is sad, and yes his life was very much… he was the life force, he was wonderful to be with.
