{"id":8448,"date":"2021-08-01T15:50:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T21:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8448"},"modified":"2021-08-02T10:12:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T16:12:26","slug":"necromancing-orson-welles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8448","title":{"rendered":"Necromancing Orson Welles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><strong>Penny Pennell<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is unconfirmed that Orson Welles consulted a Ouija board when making\u00a0<em>Citizen Kane<\/em>. The planchette allegedly spelled out \u201crosebud\u201d and he became positively insufferable henceforward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We fashioned our own Ouija board on the back of a framed print of Mendeleev\u2019s 1869 periodic table.&nbsp;When we accidentally summoned Welles\u2019 spirit, we regretted it immediately. He picked us up and rearranged how we were sitting like we were prepping for a first read through. Changed the lighting to cast better shadows. Told us to project when we were speaking to him.&nbsp;<em>From the diaphragm,&nbsp;<\/em>he bellowed, and then told us to shut up so he could think<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The more he glowered and pondered, the louder we could hear Bernard Hermann\u2019s score fill the room.&nbsp;<em>Chronicle Scherzo<\/em>&nbsp;morphed to \u201cPsycho\u2019s\u201d&nbsp;<em>Prelude.&nbsp;<\/em>Orson scowled when we told him which score we preferred, and now he refuses to return to the spirit realm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>PENNY PENNELL<\/strong><\/strong>&nbsp;received an M.A. in English from the University of Illinois at Springfield. Her fiction is forthcoming or has appeared in&nbsp;<em>Portland Metrozine, 3Elements Review, Nightingale and Sparrow, Barnstorm<\/em>, and other places. She is an avid gardener and Chicago Cubs fan. @pennyrpennell&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penny Pennell It is unconfirmed that Orson Welles consulted a Ouija board when making\u00a0Citizen Kane. The planchette allegedly spelled out \u201crosebud\u201d and he became positively insufferable henceforward. We fashioned our own Ouija board on the back of a framed print &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8448\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8438,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8448","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2cg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8478,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8448\/revisions\/8478"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}