…I I wish he I wish he'd speak up and say something because he has a beautiful voice sounds just like sounds just like Orson Welles. Well I don't know what that chair is doing there but I'll I'll uh proceed with uh libretto or whatever it is I was…

…several other puzzling cases: Nicholas Bourbaki the greatest mathematician of the 20th century who turned out not to exist at all and Orson Welles film about elmire which is as much of a fake as any of elmire's paintings and various other things of that…

…You can lift all you want from Hitchcock and it's called an homage to Hitchcock. You can lift anything you want from Orson Welles It's an homage to Orson Welles but in the literary world that idea hasn't gotten across so much. I suddenly got afraid…

…from Hitchcock and it's called an homage to Hitchcock. You can lift anything you want from Orson Welles It's an homage to Orson Welles but in the literary world that idea hasn't gotten across so much. I suddenly got afraid I might hear from the flann…

…two. Anything that changes people's consciousness is a work of art. Many works of art have an aspect of hoax about them like Orson Welles war of the worlds broadcast color of his travels which was released as a book of travels by a sea captain named…

…How about Brooklyn? Can I get a round of applause for Brooklyn? Hey, Bakersfield, Glover's mills that's where the ufos landed in the Orson Welles show. Hey yeah, now I forgot where I was going. Oh yeah while I was in New Jersey I met a lawyer who…

…BBC because everything wasn't a fake Elmira did exist, Clifford Irving did exist the island of ibiza did exist and I think even Orson Welles did exist. There are a lot of other things and the art dealers in the movie did exist I think. But the movie…

…first movie citizen kane where people in one scene seem to be answering people in another scene set 20 years apart in time. Welles invented the technique of wit as an editing device. Now towards the climax of the movie, there's a scene where elmere is…

…hell is his name? Every time he rips off Hitchcock the critics call it an homage to Hitchcock. Everybody's doing homages to Orson Welles Lately it's not plagiarism anymore it's an homage. The crime begins when you put the signature on and you hear Orson's…

…Orson, in Paris suggests the word and in the beats elmere pronounces the word with decision like he's just found it as if Welles had prompted him. What happened was elmere was searching for the word then he found it and Welles Intercut himself in Paris…

…just found it as if Welles had prompted him. What happened was elmere was searching for the word then he found it and Welles Intercut himself in Paris saying the word so it's like telepathy or something it's a magical effect another fake, but it's art.…

…or something it's a magical effect another fake, but it's art. Is it a fake or is it art? It's certainly humorous. You know Welles is in Paris because you recognize the scene he's in there. There are several other scenes in Paris so you know just where…

…other questions asked by BBC Interviewers who Orson bought part of the film from and re edited it to make it look like an Orson Welles film. You see why I consider this a great work of art, this film because it's the only film well not the only but…

…counterfeits anymore. Well that's the theme of my latest book, cosmic trigger 3, and so I guess I needn't enlarge on it here. Orson Welles is one of my all time favorite fakers. I heard the war of the worlds broadcast again just a few nights ago and…

…themes the way Griffith did. Symphonies are organized that way and 2001 is another of my favorite films. And the trial Orson Welles and touch of evil and close encounters of the third kind, King Kong, James Wales Frankenstein, Behind the green door one…

…television. I was fascinated by television back in the 50s when all the intellectuals were putting it down. I was delighted when Orson Welles came back to the United States the first interview he gave he said Orson Welles he said television is in its…

…were putting it down. I was delighted when Orson Welles came back to the United States the first interview he gave he said Orson Welles he said television is in its golden age right now, like cinema was 30 years ago and I thought, my god I'm not…

…non fiction works as well. They're all excursions into reality and perceptions, trying to figure out what works. Yes, well, actually Orson Welles influenced me a lot citizen kane, but not only citizen kane, all of Welles Movies. As a matter of fact there's…

…to figure out what works. Yes, well, actually Orson Welles influenced me a lot citizen kane, but not only citizen kane, all of Welles Movies. As a matter of fact there's a biography of Welles in which he stated my principles more directly than I've ever…

…me a lot citizen kane, but not only citizen kane, all of Welles Movies. As a matter of fact there's a biography of Welles in which he stated my principles more directly than I've ever stated them. He told the biographer: don't try to tell the truth…

…he stated my principles more directly than I've ever stated them. He told the biographer: don't try to tell the truth about Orson Welles you can't you're not god tell the story of your attempt to find out the truth about Orson Welles and I realized,…

…the truth about Orson Welles you can't you're not god tell the story of your attempt to find out the truth about Orson Welles and I realized, my god he's turning the biography into another variation on citizen kane isn't he? You're right, he was moral.…

…up study showing that precognition seems to correlate with geomagnetic activity too or with low geomagnetic activity. Last night I saw again Orson Welles film f for fake and that is one of my favorite films. It may be my favorite film of all time and…

…that the real truth? How much was elmere deceiving Clifford Irving? Well Clifford Irving was writing the biography of elmere and Orson Welles announces at the beginning of the film, although this is a movie about fakery and flimflam, everything we are going…

…because he never signed the paintings. Somebody else signed the paintings. He's a bit evasive about who signed the paintings. And then Welles cuts to a close up of Clifford Irving and Irving says oh he's lying about that he signed the paintings. And then…

…then Welles cuts to a close up of Clifford Irving and Irving says oh he's lying about that he signed the paintings. And then Welles asks: who did the Howard Hughes Signature? And then there's a close up of Irving and a close up of elmere and a close…

…and a close up of elmere and they're not saying anything and it's a heavy pregnant, guilty silence. Except that's a fake. Welles never interviewed elmere or Clifford Irving. Welles bought newsreel footage of them from BBC and edited it put himself into it…

…not saying anything and it's a heavy pregnant, guilty silence. Except that's a fake. Welles never interviewed elmere or Clifford Irving. Welles bought newsreel footage of them from BBC and edited it put himself into it and made it look like an interview.…

…So it's a fake movie about a fake biography of a fake artist. As I said, only most of the audience don't get the joke. Welles Didn't want people to get the joke he wanted the joke to come out gradually over the years. In one part of the movie Welles…

…Welles Didn't want people to get the joke he wanted the joke to come out gradually over the years. In one part of the movie Welles tells a well known story about how his acting career began when he was 16 and trying to make a success as a painter.…

…tells a well known story about how his acting career began when he was 16 and trying to make a success as a painter. Welles seems to identify with elmere who had a remarkable lack of success as a painter as long as he was putting his own signatures…

…his own signatures on the paintings. Elmere's success only began when he started signing his paintings Rembrandt or Vincent or Modigliani. Welles was not doing very well at selling his paintings. He was traveling around Ireland and he got to Dublin and he…

…stage who was in Ireland and was willing to do some work at their theatre over the summer and they hired him and Welles says: and I've been an acting forger ever since. Well the curious thing about that sequence: Welles has told that story many times.…

…and they hired him and Welles says: and I've been an acting forger ever since. Well the curious thing about that sequence: Welles has told that story many times. But BBC did a documentary about Welles Shortly before his death and they interviewed Michael…

…ever since. Well the curious thing about that sequence: Welles has told that story many times. But BBC did a documentary about Welles Shortly before his death and they interviewed Michael Mcliarmor who was one of the two managers of the gate, as well as…

…Hoth where mcliarmor and Edwards used to live, which brings me into the story. By synchronicity or coincidence, in this documentary on Welles, Mcliarmor appears and says: Welles did not deceive us for a minute when he walked in that door of the gate…

…used to live, which brings me into the story. By synchronicity or coincidence, in this documentary on Welles, Mcliarmor appears and says: Welles did not deceive us for a minute when he walked in that door of the gate theatre claiming to be 19 years…

…read the New York Papers we knew who the actors were who were appearing on broadway and they showed this clip to Orson Welles on this documentary about him and Welles says: well mcliarmor is faking. And the interviewer says why? Welles says oh just out…

…who the actors were who were appearing on broadway and they showed this clip to Orson Welles on this documentary about him and Welles says: well mcliarmor is faking. And the interviewer says why? Welles says oh just out of vanity he wants to make himself…

…showed this clip to Orson Welles on this documentary about him and Welles says: well mcliarmor is faking. And the interviewer says why? Welles says oh just out of vanity he wants to make himself more important. And the fact is I was hired by Hilton…

…Hilton Edwards. Mcliarmor was in London that weekend he came back I was already working for the gate theatre. Now we'll never know. Is Welles Version of how he got hired by the gate true did he really deceive them? Did they just decide to hire him even…

…he was a fake because they could see he was a talented fake? We'll never know the truth. But an even more interesting Orson Welles Mystery is the one about rosebud. I bet everybody here has seen citizen kane, even though only two of you have seen f…

…1500 years for us to accumulate enough information for 2 jesus. By then the Renaissance was in full bloom and with my Orson Welles Compulsion, I can't resist quoting one of my favorite Orson Welles lines: in Italy under the borgias they had 30 years of…

…the Renaissance was in full bloom and with my Orson Welles Compulsion, I can't resist quoting one of my favorite Orson Welles lines: in Italy under the borgias they had 30 years of tyranny, assassinations, treachery, conspiracy, war, violence. So what did…

…movie and real life. Everybody knows the difference between a movie and real life. This could lead to a long digression about Orson Welles but I will resist the temptation. No I won't no yes I will. Now after you're sure you know the difference between…

…of atmosphere and poetic camera work and suggestion, and the James Whale school of horror films, which influenced a lot of Orson Welles work. By the way James Whale was the first American director to use the techniques of the German Impressionists and he…

…called gods and monsters. Anybody ever see that. I recommend it highly great movie. Well he was a major influence on Orson Welles Who's been, in spite of being exiled from Hollywood and scorned and crucified practically Orson is the main. Every modern film…

…exiled from Hollywood and scorned and crucified practically Orson is the main. Every modern film is more or less a James Whale Orson Welles film. They use camera angles and framing the shot in ways to create an atmosphere. Well anyway, after you know all…

…It's about how language and the nervous system react to create the realities we experience. Now I will go into my digression about Orson Welles which brings me to the muddle model. In the muddle model which you had a lot of experience of in my first…

…with a radio show called the mercury theater on the air, which was produced, directed, sometimes written, and frequently starring Orson Welles. It was a radio equivalent of the mercury theater, which was a theatrical group that Welles had managed throughout…

…written, and frequently starring Orson Welles. It was a radio equivalent of the mercury theater, which was a theatrical group that Welles had managed throughout the 30s in New York, and on October 31st 1938 Orson did one of his experimental approaches to…

…a brief introduction which told you it was the mercury theater on the air and they were doing a dramatization of h g Welles Novel the war of the worlds, which apparently most people were paying attention to something else and didn't hear it began as a…

…Within a few minutes you're suffering hamlet's problems, you're involved in the play and you forget that it's Laurence Olivier. What Orson Welles did was just exaggerate the effect of drama in general which is to make you forget the fact that you're seeing…

…public all these years. Be that as it may, in f for fake, Clifford Irving plays Clifford Irving, Elmire plays elmire, Orson Welles plays Orson Welles, and the whole movie is presented as a documentary about two notorious fakers. Except at various points in…

…years. Be that as it may, in f for fake, Clifford Irving plays Clifford Irving, Elmire plays elmire, Orson Welles plays Orson Welles, and the whole movie is presented as a documentary about two notorious fakers. Except at various points in the movie,…

…editing it properly and not putting anything over on the audience. But as a matter of fact that whole sequence was faked. What Orson Welles did was I take out a year of interviews he took all the shots where elmire and Clifford Irving were not talking…

…thinking. And just to prepare you for that, there's an earlier sequence in the film in which it seems to be a digression which Welles says is a study of the ancient art of girl watching. And then a fabulously rich Hungarian named Oya Kodor, in a very…

…time it's cinema verite because you can hear her heels clicking all through the sequence as she walks down the street. Now Orson Welles was both a magician as well as being an actor, director, producer, writer, etc. Stage magic was his passion from the…

…Kodor. And she then admits she's not Hungarian, her grandfather was not an art forger. Actually she was yugoslavian and she was Orson Welles last wife. So at the end of the movie you are left with the question: okay we've seen artistically it makes…

…And when you look at it again you find yourself asking more and more: was this scene fake was this scene real? And Welles is thrown in some places where it's obviously fake just to keep you alert like there's one scene where they keep coming back…

…I haven't seen a couple of videos. You mean videos in video stores that I'd recommend yeah anything that yeah repo man, Orson Welles the trial, the meaning of life by the monty Python Group there's a story I'll recommend right away. Yeah the meaning of…

…has got so much in it that you can look at the series over and over and see more in each shot. Orson Welles films are information rich. Beethoven's Music is information rich because unlike bach and Mozart However beautiful bach and Mozart are once you're…

…get away with. And you can get away with a great deal if you take this as a resolute motto, as, for instance, take Orson Welles Movie f for fake, which I tend to consider the greatest movie ever made. F for fake is about Clifford Irving, who wrote a…

…Salvador Dali's Paintings only make sense if you're thinking in gaelic when you look at them and getting back to f for fake. Orson Welles at the beginning of the movie tells you that even though this is about two notorious frauds we're going to tell the…

…frauds we're going to tell the truth of this movie and we'll repeat that in writing and in writing it comes on the screen and Welles reads it a lot for the next one hour we will tell you nothing but the truth. At the end of the movie which runs…

…we will tell you nothing but the truth. At the end of the movie which runs an hour and 17 minutes you find out that Welles admits he's been lying for the last 17 minutes that everything you've seen is fiction. It's a magic trick, and you come out and…

…trick, and you come out and think well that was clever. But then when you go back and see the movie again you realize Welles was lying about things all through the movie, and so were Irving and so were elmere. And then you start to wonder: was elmere…

…they were making the film they added to the drama or rather before they started the film but inserted into the film by Welles was one of his little fakes, as if they just discovered it while they were making the film. Clifford Irving was denounced as…

…f for fake and I've been an acting faker ever since. So which makes you wonder how many of his performances were real Orson Welles and how many of them were fake Orson Welles. Picasso once was asked by an art dealer. I've been offered these paintings…

…ever since. So which makes you wonder how many of his performances were real Orson Welles and how many of them were fake Orson Welles. Picasso once was asked by an art dealer. I've been offered these paintings that are all supposed to be by you and I…

…How about Brooklyn? Can I get a round of applause for Brooklyn? Hey, Bakersfield, Grover's Mills that's where the ufos landed in the Orson Welles show hey yeah, now I forgot where I was going. Oh yeah well I was in New Jersey. I met a lawyer who…

…later became a film director, and a very good one. I think he was persuaded to become an actor in a movie that Orson Welles made that has yet to be released, called the other side of the wind. And the way Orson persuaded Peter Bogdanovich to become…

…way Orson persuaded Peter Bogdanovich to become an actor was when Bogdanovich said: I'm not an actor I don't know how to act. Welles said: everybody is an actor. How's that for an illness in an isda statement? And Bogdanovich says: what do you mean? And…

…said: everybody is an actor. How's that for an illness in an isda statement? And Bogdanovich says: what do you mean? And Welles said: every conversation is a performance. We draw the line, we say: this is acting and this is conversation but every…

…ways. Anyway they wanted me to appear in the movie as playing myself and I thought it over and I said yes I figured like Orson Welles said, every conversation is a performance all I had to do was be myself. I didn't have to do a lot of method acting…

…later became a film director, and a very good one. I think he was persuaded to become an actor in a movie that Orson Welles made that has yet to be released, called the other side of the wind, and the way Orson persuaded Peter Bogdanovich to become…

…Orson persuaded Peter Bogdanovich to become an actor was when Bogdanovich said: I'm not an actor I don't know how to act. Welles said: everybody is an actor. How's that for an allness and an isness statement? And Bogdanovich says: what do you mean? And…

…said: everybody is an actor. How's that for an allness and an isness statement? And Bogdanovich says: what do you mean? And Welles said: every conversation is a performance. We drew on the line. We say: this is acting and this is conversation but every…

…Anyway they wanted me to appear in the movie as playing myself and I thought it over and I said yes. I figured, like Orson Welles said, every conversation is a performance. All I had to do was be myself. I didn't have to do a lot of method acting…

…There's a variety of narrative voices. You can't trust any of them completely. Another artist who's influenced me a lot is Orson Welles Especially his last completed film f for fake in which everybody is lying, including Orson himself part of the time you…