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Orson Welles

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vendredi 17 février 2006 [n° 1062]

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Kane, molder of mass opinion though he was, in all his life was never granted elective office by the voters of his country.

Few U.S. news publishers have been. Few, like one-time Congressman Hearst, have ever run for any office – most know better – conclude with other political observers that one man’s press has power enough for himself. But Kane papers were once strong indeed, and once the prize seemed almost his. In 1910, as Independent Candidate for governor, the best elements of the state behind him – the White House seemingly the next easy step in a lightning political career -

Night shot of crowd burning Charles Foster Kane in effigy. The dummy bears a grotesque, comic resemblance to Kane. It is tossed into the flames, which burn up -

- and then down… (1910)

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One hundred thousand trees, twenty thousand tons of marble, are the ingredients of Xanadu’s mountain. Xanadu’s livestock: the fowl of the air, the fish of the sea, the beast of the field and jungle – two of each; the biggest private zoo since Noah.

Contents of Kane’s palace: paintings, pictures, statues, the very stones of many another palace, shipped to Florida from every corner of the earth, from other Kane houses, warehouses, where they mouldered for years. Enough for ten museums – the loot of the world.


KANE by Herman J. Mankiewicz & Orson Welles
Typed/Donated by
John Powers
Jon Reifler

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