Don't believe Orson Welles

As a child, watching the Tonight show I really liked the episodes when Orson Welles was on!

In a Film Appreciation course in college--the only movie I really liked was Citizen Kane. The camera work was brilliant.

I actually liked all his movies, and they didn't become dated with age. I would like to see The Stranger Remastered, but that's another topic.

As to embellishment--he knew Hollwood, why not play with them? Hollywood is magic, and escapism; why not quild the lilly? It's not like he didn't know the real problems of his generation--people dying in wars, the depression, being accused by Mccarthy.

(I have an off topic question about remastering old film/video. This is really off topic, but here goes. As a child I really liked a The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. It was a made for t.v movie and shot on video tape(I believe). For years the only copies of the film were severely degraded. So degraded, I was told it was beyond remastering. I noticed Starz had it in their line up. I watched the movie and someone did a great job remastering the old video tape. Does anyone know who did the work? I couldn't find anything.)

At the time he was doing liquor commercials, Welles was really, literally, the most interesting man in the world.

Well, Feynman could top him maybe, but the list of men who could is short.

The Simon Callow biographies of Welles are really well-written books and worth the reading time.