A meeting of great minds, episode #671: When H G Wells met Orson Welles.
(Scene: a street in a US town. Orson Welles is standing on a street corner idly leafing through a newspaper when H G Wells hobbles up to him)
H G WELLS: Welles?
ORSON WELLES: (Looking up) Welles. Wells?
HGW.: Wells. Welles!
OW: Well well, Wells!
HGW: Well well, Welles!
(Laughter. The two men begin walking along like old friends.)
OW: Well well well well well well well well well well well well well!
HGW: Welles, Wells, Wells, Welles! Well well well well well well well well well!
OW: WELL!
(Laughter, followed by a pause)
HGW: Well?
OW: Weeeeeell...
HGW: (Taking the other's hand) Welles!
OW: (Sharply withdrawing his hand) Well, Wells, well!
HGW: Welles?
OW: Well! Wells, well! Well well well!
HGW: Well! Well! Well!
(In their passion, both men almost topple into a hole in the ground)
HGW: (Starting back, and pulling Welles back too)... well?
OW: ... Well.
(Raucous laughter)
BOTH: Well well well well well well WELL WELL WELL WELL WELL etc...
FIN
Stand by for upcoming episodes of A meeting of great minds, #672, 673, and 674: 'When Yumi met Sumi', 'When Yumi and Sumi met Mimi', and 'The time H G Wells mistook Dame Edith Sitwell for a chair.'
H G WELLS: Welles?
ORSON WELLES: (Looking up) Welles. Wells?
HGW.: Wells. Welles!
OW: Well well, Wells!
HGW: Well well, Welles!
(Laughter. The two men begin walking along like old friends.)
OW: Well well well well well well well well well well well well well!
HGW: Welles, Wells, Wells, Welles! Well well well well well well well well well!
OW: WELL!
(Laughter, followed by a pause)
HGW: Well?
OW: Weeeeeell...
HGW: (Taking the other's hand) Welles!
OW: (Sharply withdrawing his hand) Well, Wells, well!
HGW: Welles?
OW: Well! Wells, well! Well well well!
HGW: Well! Well! Well!
(In their passion, both men almost topple into a hole in the ground)
HGW: (Starting back, and pulling Welles back too)... well?
OW: ... Well.
(Raucous laughter)
BOTH: Well well well well well well WELL WELL WELL WELL WELL etc...
FIN
Stand by for upcoming episodes of A meeting of great minds, #672, 673, and 674: 'When Yumi met Sumi', 'When Yumi and Sumi met Mimi', and 'The time H G Wells mistook Dame Edith Sitwell for a chair.'
3 comments:
So the point of the story is that they are waiting for wells?
Nice.
I can see numerous set design options.
Wardrobe would be slightly grubby, circa 1956, but edgy, projecting to a Gothic sensibility, thus creating an arc, a tangible link between generations.
Maybe I'm just saying, where there's a Wells, there's a Ways.
Oh, I see.
I'll have to rethink the set design, but I think wardrobe is still good.
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