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Article: THE REAL CITIZEN KANE.(Features)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 10, 2002
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Byline: DAVID EDWARDS
IT is one of the most famous films in history, the story of a newspaperman driven mad by wealth and power.
Citizen Kane made a star of Orson Welles and was yesterday named as the greatest film ever made, in a poll of directors and critics by the British Film Institute.
But the story does not even come close to the amazing life of William Randolph Hearst, who inspired it.
When it was released in 1941 it guaranteed an epic duel between Hearst and Welles from which neither would ever recover, ensuring both would die ...
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Article: HEARST FINDS `CITIZEN KANE' A DELIGHT.(News)
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...Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst just loves ``Citizen Kane.'' So much so that she introduced Orson Welles' 1941 ... based on the life of her grandfather William Randolph Hearst, has long been a sensitive subject with her family ...
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