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Could J Edgar Hoover have shielded Welles
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Could J Edgar Hoover have shielded Welles ? There are a few reasons why but Hoover did not want Welles spilling his guts in a courtroom about the indiscretions of JFK, Sam Giancana and Maralyn Monroe. My uncle Von Scheck informed me of Hoover and Churchill being quite good friends on account of business they had done together under cover... more »
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Excerpts from Rosenbaum lecture
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Othello (1952) may have something to do with the Hollywood blacklist and witch hunts, we know from his interview with Peter Bogdanovich that Arkadin was partially based on Stalin, but Welles doesn’t say a word in the same interview about Van Stratten being based on Nixon, accidentically or otherwise.... more »
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New book on Montaigne, OW influence
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How to Live: a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer By Sarah Bakewell (Chatto & Windus, £16.99) After inheriting his father’s estate in the interior of Aquitaine, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) decided to quit public life as a magistrate in the Bordeaux parlement and devote himself to leisurely... more »
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New Book bashes Welles' favorite sport
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Bullfighting: A Troubled History by Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier | translated by Sue Rose BEN WALLACE-WELLS on THE BRUTAL HISTORY OF BULLFIGHTING Ernest Hemingway first attended a bullfight in Pamplona in 1923, and he did not expect to like it. “Most people who wrote about it condemned bullfighting outright as a stupid brutal business,” he... more »
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