Lincoln chose William Seward as secretary of state, Salmon Chase as Treasury secretary, Gideon Welles as Navy secretary and Montgomery Blair as postmaster general.

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(Music: "Je Cherche Un Homme") The film director Orson Welles discovered Eartha Kitt singing in Paris.

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It was the week I fell in love, the week I would make my Broadway debut and the week I would meet Orson Welles."

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He is Charles Foster Kane. I don't think you can ever pin Welles down,"

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and Linklater found the real Welles within those iconic characters "He is an enigma.

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As storm clouds of war rumble across the Atlantic, Welles puts the play not in ancient Rome, but in contemporary Europe with Caesar as a fascist dictator.

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but that is ultimately the Welles theme,isn't it? The unknowable-ness of an individual.

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but in Me and Orson Welles McKay says the challenge was to rediscover the brash young man who would become the stage and screen icon: "I felt a tremendous responsibility toward him,especially because of his own mythology his own myth making,"

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