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"Definitive and unique. It is impossible to believe that anyone will ever again probe with such patience, eloquence and insight into the life and work of this fascinating monster."
-- Alistair Cooke
"There really is nobody writing about film with the bravura wit and pyrotechnic exhilaration of David Thomson. He is quite simply our smartest, hippest film critic. With boundless civility and grace, Thomson chips away at the scorpion sting of Welles's own nature to reveal the rosebud itself; all duality and thorny contradiction. Falstaff and Macbeth and salesman of vin ordinaire, as comfortable with Winston Churchill as he was working the groundlings in Vegas. In other words -- a man of the twentieth century. By the end, what emerges is not just Thomson's Orson, but a much broader picture of the hard black rules of mercantile Hollywood, where certain kinds of hunger are considered unforgivable."
-- Jon Robin Baitz
"Rosebud is the biography Orson Welles has always deserved. Mad, sad, skeptical, admiring, romantic, realistic, it is as contradictory, as troubling, as hypnotically stylish as the man himself. And it applies to this life the one quality that was not brought to its living -- critical acuity."
-- Richard Schickel
"Orson Welles is film history's most fascinating larger-than-life figure and, in David Thomson, he has at last found a biographer to equal the spell he continues to cast. Thomson is an expert: an expert storyteller, critic, thinker, investigator and observer of the all-too-human landscape. Rosebud is as wickedly funny as it is eloquent and perceptive, and is enriched by two gifts Welles would have envied -- common sense and a stern, but forgiving heart."
-- Steven Bach
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