Citizen Kane
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2LTo4SIsZE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane
See Kubla Khan
See Xanadu
"Citizen Kane, the story of the doomed press baron Charlie Kane – played by Welles himself, partly based on WR Hearst – and told in a dazzling series of fragments, shards, jigsaw pieces and reflected images." [1]
Rosebud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4mQqVqRB7I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr93wwtiKQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3hfQ2IOc8s
https://www.wellesnet.com/orson-welles-the-meaning-of-rosebud-in-citizen-kane/
The grandson of the man who inspired Orson Welles' 1941 classic offers his own explanation about the meaning of "Rosebud."
- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/william-randolph-hearst-iii-citizen-kane-meaning-rosebud-992216
- Interviewer David Thomson then asked about yet another, more scandalous theory, promulgated by the late Gore Vidal.
Rosebud | by Gore Vidal | The New York Review of Books
- https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1989/08/17/rosebud/
- In his essay on Orson Welles [NYR, June 1], Gore Vidal asserts that “Rosebud was what Hearst called his friend Marion Davies’s private part
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