But it's actually been done before. This is Orson Welles. This is "War of the Worlds." He convinced an entire nation that aliens were really invading the Earth through these radio broadcasts.
So what happened in 1958 at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo is that the owner saw the 1958 film "The Vikings" with Kirk Douglas-- it was narrated by Orson Welles-- and was totally enthralled with these Vikings. And so he decided to call the buffet that they were presenting Viking, and that has become the word for buffet in Japanese.
I mean that eloquent diction. I mean his heroes were really Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier. So you can imagine just this sort of strange looking, eerily handsome, young man who's doing Shakespeare.
You have to find a use for yourself. Nice. Mine are Orson Scott Card and Dennis E. Taylor.
And so I got my ass handed to me. And just to top it-- to come back around to the Orson Welles of it all, the "LA Weekly" did a review, and they devoted a ton of ink to it, I mean, a ton, like, two pages.
and he can pet them. He wasn't interested in or impressed by Orson Wells and his magic at all, although Orson didn't take it personally. There are kinds of research you can do now on the internet that would have been at the very least extremely difficult in the past, and very likely impossible.
And I can't believe I had the stamina to do this, but we would go-- I went to Bergman day, and Kurosawa day, and Woody Allen day, and Orson Welles day. And they would show like 12 movies in a row.
But I found out quite a lot. To give an example, I noticed a quote by Orson Wells that suggested he had met my father. I searched obsessively until I found an entire newspaper column about my father meeting Marlene Dietrich and Orson Wells.
To give an example, I noticed a quote by Orson Wells that suggested he had met my father. I searched obsessively until I found an entire newspaper column about my father meeting Marlene Dietrich and Orson Wells. I kept searching. And I never found a picture of my dad with Marlene Dietrich, but I did find this picture on an auction site of Orson Wells
But it was interesting to go to Mexico for that film, because that was directed by Mike Nichols. He was just coming off of "The Graduate," and he had everyone in the world in that film, including Orson Welles, and Alan Arkin, and Art Garfunkel, who I was a huge Art-- Simon Garfunkel-- At six years old, I knew every song that they had recorded.
I searched obsessively until I found an entire newspaper column about my father meeting Marlene Dietrich and Orson Wells. I kept searching. And I never found a picture of my dad with Marlene Dietrich, but I did find this picture on an auction site of Orson Wells doing a magic trick for him.
My father looks delighted, but if you follow his eyes, you can see he's looking off to the right. Because of the newspaper account of this moment, I know that at this exact second, someone off camera to the right has told him Orson has rabbits and he can pet them.
you'll be amused by what-- because I had great benefits at Apple, too. OK, good. I've been reading a short story collection by Orson Scott Card, and he talks about a lot of that same type
And all the lights in his house would flash at any unauthorized footstep. But then there's also that side where, maybe, he's just playing the acting role of the great, failed genius, like an Orson Welles.
and walk away and come back. There's a funny little anecdote from the book, which is Elizabeth Faulkner, who was the pastry chef here at Citizen Cake in Orson , although now