Orson Welles on Cold Reading

8 Responses to Orson Welles on Cold Reading

1. wunelle says:

   December 31, 2010 at 12:35 pm

   That’s delightful! I’ve never heard him speak casually before. I have a filmmaker friend who is obsessed with Welles; I begin to see why.

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2. Camels With Hammers says:

   December 31, 2010 at 1:48 pm

   I guess this must be an understatement when referring to one of the greatest screen presences in history but I just have to give my impression from that video: What a charismatic guy.

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3. José says:

   December 31, 2010 at 9:29 pm

   Yet, this was the man who terrified me as a boy with the god awful piece of fluff The Man Who Saw Tomorrow.

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4. Susi says:

   January 1, 2011 at 11:31 am

   I get deja vu a lot, especially after accommodating to a new situation. It always turns out that I actually am repeating an experience, replete with spontaneous idiosyncracies that seem uniquely creative. Right. Twice. Sometimes three times. Eesh. That mental computer does a whole lot behind the scenes.

   Mercifully, my companions don’t often remember these things…until I remind them.

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5. nazani14 says:

   January 1, 2011 at 1:09 pm

   Scoping out a sucker is even easier for palm readers. Once you take a person’s hand in yours, you instantly know a lot about their health.

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   • ddm says:

     January 1, 2011 at 1:41 pm

     I’ve always wanted to get my palm read. They use the lines to read your future, but my hand’s lines are abnormal, to say the least. I have a Single Transverse Palmar Crease(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transverse_palmar_crease), which apparently only happens in 3% of the population.

     I want to see their head explode.

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     • Michael says:

       January 3, 2011 at 12:45 am

       Since these people read tens to hundreds of palms a day, they probably have seen it many, many times.

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6. Peter Cross says:

   January 2, 2011 at 2:43 pm

   One of the best books available on the subject:
   The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading
   by Ian Rowland

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