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Documentary exposes dramatic Hearst-Welles `Battle': Public, private duels between 2 as entertaining as `Citizen Kane'.(Arts)(Television)

"The Battle Over `Citizen Kane,' " an astute documentary produced by WGBH-TV in Boston for the PBS series "The American Experience" and airing tomorrow night, requires a preamble of about 90 minutes before it gets to the publicity fracas that compromised the original release of "Citizen Kane" by RKO in May 1941. That preamble consists of parallel, mirror-image film biographies of the program's antagonists, newspaper titan William Randolph Hearst and show business titan Orson Welles. Did anyone suggest "Clash of the Titans"? Strange.

These Faustian pop-culture empire-builders (and wreckers) were separated chronologically by half a century. Their self-interests, however, ...

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