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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, October 12, 1985

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Welles left m Suu from 19-tl film citizen Sciric for which he to Cal Ltd boy Wonc trip /j0y already Modi a name with the 1938 radio broadcast below of the War of Tho worlds which caused widespread panic photo at Bottom was taken just wre is before actor director s death. A coupling of Genius and self destruction Eules by Bob Thomas associated press keep within i Nln Lipil estate Xanadu. The turbulent life of news magnate Charles Foster Kane conies loan end with his last murmured word.  it is the opening sequence of Orson Welles great him. A Liz Fri Kane during which a reporter keeps asking Kane s friends and enemies what Dors Rosebud mean7" he no Var finds the  the audience Lear tithe meaning Van some o Karie s effects Are  a the urn s end Rosebud 15 the name a Kane s beloved boyhood loll which was wrenched from Lurn As he was taken from his Mother 1., Home to begin his life of Power no such simple jigs Erlus surfaced to solve the Riddle of Orson Welles., the boy wonder who created i masterpiece at age 2b and could never approach such greatness Lor the remaining 44 years of his me three Boot s out the by Lles phenomenon have just been published am More jul come but so far. No on.-.1 seems Able to explain ins u uqui.1 coupling of Talent and self destruction. In his youth. Welles seemed to Delight in his role of Young rebel. He shocked Broadway by singing Julius Caesy Ilikea contemporary fascist uprising. He frightened the nation with his too Al Stic radio drama of a Martian invasion. He Shook the Hollywood establish on it to its roots with his audacious portrait of pub Sher a Liam Randolph Hearst in  i so film i i Mnist i Olit  Parsons Deli crud  in the y in haul Ufa Start. By the Vrr l it.  no h and a j i Hebi Camp. And it i works. Like in  a not of ,. An u t in were damaged because it Ali s a. Oil to flu int rur to on Chi to continent having  to ifn1 Diling. Troni 1955 to 1971, i dabbled with d,.v Quixote and never  it. / it of jeep. Also  dead ruckus no was wined in 1967 and Letl  Vii u s friends  Hiat he others col it wind saturday. October 12, 1985 would return him to glory it was a perhaps autobiographical Story of a legendary filmmaker Pla " by John Huston making a comeback. It was filmed in fragments from 1971 to 1975, and at his death Welles trying to make arrangements to Complete it. Welles liked to think of himself As a magician indeed during world War ii he entertained the Ironi with magic show in which he sawed Rita Hayworth n Hall. He later married her. Somehow in his late ?0s. Wel i s lost his magic As filmmaker. He continued m he Public Eye a an ack talk show guest narrator and  commercial ho1. Whle Uit is lamented the passing of his greatness o Iriti his late years Welles was a a pts with Hor / ii. Motion picture Academy the  film Lri uie. The directors Guild of America and my i .--.i.il, re a where Willus seemed to Cali i the award. A for his  its of two generations ago now i m an old Christmas tree the roots of which have  he cracked after receiving a special Osc in 1970 Thoy it Corne along and while the Limilo Needles fall Oft to. Replace them with  the stars and stripes Page 13  
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