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Article: `Citizen Kane' Drama // PBS Chronicles Clash of Egos
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 28, 1996
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PASADENA, Calif. Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst were not
men - they were giants.
With egos to match.
Welles was just 23 when he created a nationwide panic, sending
Americans running for cover with his radio broadcast of "War of the
Worlds." But when, at 26, the Hollywood golden boy took on
76-year-old newspaper magnate Hearst, savagely redrawing him as
Charles Foster Kane in the cinematic masterpiece "Citizen Kane," it
started a war of wills neither man could win.
So goes "The Battle Over Citizen Kane," a two-hour presentation
of the PBS series "The American Experience," airing at 8 p.m. Monday
on WTTW-Channel 11. Produced by Thomas Lennon, winner of Emmy and
George Foster ...