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Photo Robert Aiken

“He was some kind of man. What more can vou say about people? Adios!”
— Marlene Dietrich

North Shore astrologer Robert Aitken bas vot always read the stars — for a brief period
during the "60s he wanted ta be one. At that time he worked in Hollywood under contract
to 20th Century Fox as Ford Dunhill. Near the end of his stint in southern California
Aiken got a chance to work with Orson Welles on the never-released film The Other Side
of the Wind. Welles’ daughter is reportedly trying to raise fiouds to restore the work and
have it yelensed. The following are Aiken's memories of working with the syrent mans.

Robert Aiken
Contributing Writer

Orson Welles shooting The Other Side of RSON Welles became widely known in the late 1930s when his
the Wind on the streets of Los Angeles shockingly realistic War of the Worlds was broadcast over the

radio.

in | 970: “The cinema has no boundaries At age 23, in Hollywood, he wrote, direeted and starred in Crisen Kane, hailed, to this

day, as the best American film ever made.

“0 . ” Welles’ carcer continued svith outstanding: achievements in tiim, theatre and television.

— its a ribbon of dream. Ti never forget him in Te Magnificent Antbersons (1942); Jane Evre (1943), The Strauger
(1946): MWe Lady Frou Shanghai (1948); Macbeth (948); The Third Man (1950); Mr.
Arkadiu (1955), Othello (1955). Moby Dick (1936); Touch Of Evil (1958), (recently
restored and re-released); and The Trtal (1963) recently re-released, his adaptation of
Katka’s classic of anxiety and anti-authoritarianism.
A highlight of my latter Hollywood days as an actor was being directed by the protean

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