<![CDATA["My Lunches with Orson…" book]]>Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Orson Welles

mercutio-8 — 10 years ago(October 16, 2015 02:03 PM)

This is (allegedly) a printed version of some secretly tape recorded lunches that Henry Jaglom had with Orson Welles.
I have read some reviews of this book on some sites, and I am wondering if some of the incidents took place.
Case in point: Richard Burton was supposed to have approached Welles' table, saying that his wife (Elizabeth Taylor) wanted to meet him.
Richard Burton: "Orson, how good to see you. Its been too long. Youre looking fine. Elizabeth is with me. She so much wants to meet you. Can I bring her over to your table?"
Welles then dissed Burton, saying that he was in the middle of lunch.
Here is the dichotomy. Burton is speaking as though Elizabeth Taylor had never met Welles. And yetthey both appeared in two of the same movies, "Jane Eyre" and "The VIPs". Why did Burton phrase it that she wanted to "meet" Welles when they already had met?

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Not familiar with the other film, but they were never in the same scenes in Jane Eyre. Taylor only features in Jane's Lowood School segment, as she plays Jane's best friend Helen Burns. Nothing to say the two would have met just because they were in the same film.

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Yeah he did have some choice words for a few people in Hollywood. However Jaglom has said that Orson was just trying to get a row out of him with some of those thoughts.

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I can imagine. I have read some things on Amazon, and it seems Welles did not think too highly of many of his peers.

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I've read the book, though I don't have a copy in front of me, and I don't think Burton uses the word 'meet'. I think he just says something like 'see you' or 'greet you' or something like that.
If you think that's controversial, you should read the book; that's the tippy tip of the iceberg.

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