Orson Welles's Protracted Second Act
November 21, 2016 ·
Dean A. Hoffman, Magazine, Orson Welles
Few tasks have proven more intractable for the show business biographer than constructing a viable, comprehensive, and, above all, convincing life of Orson Welles (1915-1985), a cultural iconoclast whose sheer range of entertainment media personae—actor, director, master of ceremonies, broadcaster,…