The Boston Globe, January 17th, 1996
ORSON WELLES The Road to Xanadu By Simon Callow, Viking, 640 pp., illustrated, $32.95 Robert Taylor is the former chief book critic of the Globe. Orson Welles was a rich boy who made good. His alcoholic father, a sometime inventor, devoted himself to squandering the family fortune; his social-reforming mother, according to Frederick Stock, conductor of the Chicago Symphony, was the foremost woman pianist he knew -- "a sexist comment from a sexist age, but an impressive testimonial nonetheless." To write about Welles is to risk retailing a twice-told tale, and yet, surprisingly enough, the onl...
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