So is Alex Jones saying this was real now?
i've got the double album... it's terrific music.
The reality is, the Wells "show" was in fact a true radio broadcast, and events did actually take place as explained. However, a massive cover-up ensued during the show's airing, obfuscating the truth until all was revealed in this riveting documentary from 1984, which was widely discredited at the time.
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”― Stephen Hawking
There's a new one on me...
~Ha!~
Good one...
They did a local version of this originally in 1968 where the Martians were obliterating the Peace Bridge and parts of Western NY and Ontario. Here's a replay from Halloween night 1973. The original version actually caused a minor panic similar to Welles original...
http://archive.org/details/WKBW_Halloween_1973
the chances of anything coming from mars is a milion to one.
Glad you cleared that up...
Later in life Orson crawled into a bottle of Paul Masson and pickled himself.
"Don't get high on your own supply." --Tony Montana--
If you voted Obomba or Romoney you did exactly that...
He crawled into a bottle because his career was essentially ruined after making one of the greatest films of all time, Citizen Kane. The "Rosebud" mantra was actually taken from a studio mogul's pet name for his mistresses vagina. He took it as Welles making fun of him and prevented him from making anything consequential for decades after.
Welles was also a notorious glutton that would often eat TWO complete steak dinners at a time...
There was quite a bit more to the man than that...
Yeah, there was. Hollywood is a whorish trash-bin where culture goes to die...
I agree with that...
I view very little of their crap...
But Welles early career is interesting...
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