Re: Citizen Kane

Graham Preston (ac109@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 18:19:52 -0600 (CST)

Hello b'fishers,

On the subject of "Citizen Kane", perhaps the greatest american film of
all time, struck me, like a lightning bolt.

I have always been looking for parralels between CK and Salinger's work.
The settings reasonably the same, characters of reasonable wealth, etc.
But the two stories, CK to the Glass saga, is extremely different. 
Anyone ever come up with the slightest resemblance between the two
stories?

By the way, I was recently reading a book on Charlton Heston or Orson
Welles, I can't remember, where heston called Welles the smartest man he
had ever known.  Not neccesarily the best actor/writer/director, but the
smartest.  Heston recalled a time when they were eating lunch when a
nervous young man went up to them. The man asked Welles how somebody knew
what Kane's last word was "Rosebud". Welles pulled the man close and
whispered "Shhh!  Don't ever tell anybody that...ever!"

Graham 

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