Craig Tyson Adams

  A guy’s got to do what a guy’s got to do. Mostly everybody knows that Orson Welles is famous for arguably the greatest movie ever made. Citizen Kane  has topped the annual list of monumental movies for decades. It’s well known that Welles drunkenly endorsed Paul Masson wines in the later part of his career. But, most people don’t know what happened in between when Welles had trouble finding financing for his movie projects. He alienated studio bosses and television executives. Here are a few facts about what Welles did during that time to facilitate fundraising for his projects. Welles supplemented his income by being the training jockey of Secretariat. It’s been said that is the reason the horse was fast enough to win the triple crown with a regular jockey. Orson was a stand-in at Sea World if some attractions became ill. He was a popular seat filler at televised award shows because he could fill two seats instead of only one, cutting down on the cost of paying multiple peo...