People shouldn’t be fat
Zachary Leader, 3 October 1996
Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu
by Simon Callow.
Cape, 640 pp., £20, March 1995,0 224 03852 4 Show More
by Simon Callow.
Cape, 640 pp., £20, March 1995,
Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles
by David Thomson.
Little, Brown, 460 pp., £20, September 1996,0 316 91437 1 Show More
by David Thomson.
Little, Brown, 460 pp., £20, September 1996,
“... speak’. At 15, Callow comments, the boy’s manner resembled that of ‘an old buffer ... an Alexander Woollcott’, and Thomson notes that throughout his life ‘he adored and worshipped old age.’ Welles’s forced maturity was the work of both parents, from whom he learned to think of childhood as a form of illness or deficiency, a ‘pestilential ... ”