Orson Welles on Hemingway
In a clip from a 1974 Michael Parkinson interview, Orson Welles speaks about his relationship with Ernest Hemingway.
Orson Welles was born in 1915, which, in my view, was both lucky and unlucky. Unlucky because it was too late and too modern a year for someone like him—and I’m not referring now to the curious boundary drawn up by my reader, because I think 1914 and 1913 would have been equally wrong and inappropriate in more than one sense.
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