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To: Janice Shell who wrote (1035)	5/1/1999 10:21:00 AM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (1) of 3795

What you don't understand is that Orson Welles was indeed sued, and spent the remainder of his life in the courts and in solitary confinement. Here is a rare picture of him, tied to a chair in his cell with a thick green restraint collar around his neck, smoking the last cigar they allowed him before they... well, you don't want to know the rest. c-fx.com Oh, and they stole all of his material as well. His original concepts for "Citizen Keene" and "The Second Man" were ruthlessly ripped off, changed, and made into movies, something he never wanted to do. He did script one movie in his jail cell, "F for F... you M...," which was smuggled out of prison and, alas, also changed to "F for Fake," which became a 1973 cult movie of sorts.

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