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Article: `CITIZEN KANE' ROCKED HOLLYWOOD.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 27, 1996
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Byline: BETH PINSKER Dallas Morning News
For those who can't remember a time before ``Citizen Kane'' was widely considered the greatest movie ever made, the new documentary ``The Battle Over Citizen Kane'' will come as something of a shock.
The fight between Orson Welles, the film's star and maker, and William Randolph Hearst, whose life story Welles mined, rocked Hollywood.
The documentary chronicling the controversy debuted at this week's Sundance Film Festival and airs Monday on PBS (locally airing 9-11 p.m. on WMHT-TV, Ch. 17).
Directors such as Barry Sonnenfeld, who in last fall's hit ``Get Shorty'' included a reverent scene ...