Fwd: Re: The Kenosha Kid

Wolfe, Skip crw4 at NIP1.EM.CDC.GOV
Mon Feb 5 15:01:03 CST 1996




Mr. Stanton writes: "I read somewhere years back that the Kenosha Kid was
supposed to

be a reference to Orson Welles, who was from Wisconsin (?!).

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I think it was Richard Porier [sp] in his _Saturday Review_ review of GR who 
came up with the Orson Welles hypothesis.  And I don't think he gave any 
stronger grounds for it than Welles' being from from Kenosha (though he did 
concentrate on the book's "cinematic" qualities). 



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