“Totalitarianism, at its essence, is an attempt at transforming reality into fiction.”
HANNAH ARENDT
Happy Birthday Orson Welles
The great actor-writer-director Orson Welles would have turned 106 today, May 6, 2021. I did a centennial piece on him six years ago. Thanks to the release of MANK last year, which offered a questionable treatment of Welles’s role in the writing of CITIZEN KANE, I’ve been eager to read Welles’s own account and wound […]
“I will never grow tired of hearing stories told” – Quotes from Orson Welles — Brian Camp’s Film and Anime Blog
Quote Of The Day
“The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Malcolm Muggeridge
A brilliant mind speaking in a time period of human history that was civilized; a time when free speech was respected. Malcolm Muggeridge identified as a “man of the left” by the way.
Flavia Masson 