February 25, 2000

All's Welles That Ends Welles

By THOMAS DOHERTY

As it must to all men, death came to George Orson Welles sometime in the early morning hours of October 10, 1985. He had spent the previous afternoon taping a segment of the The Merv Griffin Show and the evening dining at the swank Hollywood eatery Ma Maison. He was found by his driver; no one had been there to hear any whispered last words or to notice a snowy glass orb shattered on the floor. But then, neither a final line of dialogue nor a childhood memento would

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