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	Citizen Kane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kane dies in the opening scene of the film at his estate Xanadu; this is followed by a newsreel pastiche documenting Kane's public life (this segment was produced by RKO's actual newsreel department).
		Citizen Kane is rumored to be based on the lives of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, the reclusive aerospace and movie mogul Howard Hughes, and the Chicago utilities magnate Samuel Insull.
		Citizen Kane (1941)• The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)• The Stranger (1946)• The Lady from Shanghai (1947) • Macbeth (1948) • Othello (1952) • Mr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Citizen_Kane (2841 words)

	Citizen Kane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Citizen Kane (1941) • The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) • The Stranger (1946) • The Lady from Shanghai (1947) • Macbeth (1948) • Othello (1952) • Mr.
		Citizen Kane is rumored to be based on the lives of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, the reclusive aerospace and movie mogul Howard Hughes, and the Chicago utilities magnate Samuel Insull.
		Kane dies in the opening scene of the film at his estate Xanadu; this is followed by a newsreel pastiche documenting Kane's public life (this segment was produced by RKO's actual newsreel department).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Citizen_Kane (2888 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Citizen Kane
		A fictional biography of media magnate Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) - a thinly veiled William Randolph Hearst that brought Welles and RKO all kinds of problems - that recreates a life in flashback, Welles' "Citizen Kane" was a startling cinematic debut by any standards, and from a 25-year-old made it nothing short of remarkable.
		Beginning with Kane's lonely death at his crumbling and ornate Xanadu mansion, the film details the destruction of Kane's childhood when his mother unwittingly inherits a legacy and his resulting adolescent realisation that part of the legacy includes a newspaper, which Kane decides to run personally.
		"Citizen Kane" is the margin by which all of Welles' later efforts came to be judged and also, in many ways, the benchmark of film production.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/12/15/citizen_kane_1941_review.shtml (386 words)

	Xanadu (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Xanadu (Citizen Kane), the fictional mansion built by Charles Foster Kane in the film Citizen Kane
		Xanadu (song), a song recorded by the Canadian progressive rock trio Rush for their album A Farewell to Kings
		Most uses of the word trace its origins to Xanadu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan's empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xanadu_(disambiguation) (328 words)

	Xanadu (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Xanadu (Citizen Kane), the fictional mansion built by Charles Foster Kane in the film Citizen Kane
		Xanadu has been cited as an influence by Beck.
		Xanadu (song), a song recorded by the Canadian progressive rock trio Rush for their album A Farewell to Kings
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xanadu_(disambiguation) (337 words)

	SparkNotes: Citizen Kane: Biography of William Randolph Hearst
		Hearst built the magnificent castle San Simeon for Davies, which was the inspiration for Xanadu in Citizen Kane.
		Hearst's estate differed from Kane's—unlike the lonely fortress Xanadu, San Simeon was full of laughter and parties.
		Critics generally agree that Citizen Kane’s protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, is based on William Randolph Hearst, who built a media empire in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
	www.sparknotes.com /film/citizenkane/section4.rhtml (730 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article
		Critic Pauline Kael, in her 1971 The Citizen Kane Book, revived the debate with her carefully detailed argument that it was Mankiewicz who was primarily responsible for the screenplay, from inception of the idea through the shooting script.
		Citizen Kane video clip (Orson Welles pays homage to the film, Mad Love)
		Their memories of the famous tycoon paint an, often contradictory, portrait of an arrogant, intelligent, sometimes generous, and impulsive individual who ended up alone and unhappy in his palatial mansion known as Xanadu.
	tcm.tv /ThisMonth/Article/0,,7161871640,00.html (662 words)

	Romantic Audience Project :: Xanadu
		Or maybe they're film students: Xanadu is the name of Charles Foster Kane's house in Citizen Kane.
		There is a house out on Orr's Island dubbed "Xanadu" which is inhabited by four (literarily inclined?) Bowdoin seniors.
		Kane's house is supposed to be like Khan's -- a pleasure palace with everything in it.
	ssad.bowdoin.edu:8668 /comments/Xanadu (96 words)

	Xanadu1.htm
		Xanadu - The name given to the mansion built by Kane in "Citizen Kane"
		Xanadu is a claim, vision, and example of something better
		"Project Xanadu has had as its purpose to build a deep-reach electronic literary system for worldwide use"
	class.ee.iastate.edu /berleant/home/Courses/text/Xanadu1.htm (773 words)

	Citizen Kane (1941)
		Kane's coffin emerges from Xanadu as it is borne by coffin-bearers.
		Kane's life was corrupted and ultimately self-destructed by a lust to fulfill the American dream of success, fame, wealth, power and immortality.
		Kane's Boarding House] by a defaulting boarder in 1868 was left the supposedly worthless deed to an abandoned mine shaft - the Colorado Lode.
	www.filmsite.org /citi.html (3911 words)

	Citizen Kane (1941)
		Kane's coffin emerges from Xanadu as it is borne by coffin-bearers.
		Kane's life was corrupted and ultimately self-destructed by a lust to fulfill the American dream of success, fame, wealth, power and immortality.
		Kane's Boarding House] by a defaulting boarder in 1868 was left the supposedly worthless deed to an abandoned mine shaft - the Colorado Lode.
	www.filmsite.org /citi.html (3911 words)

	Xanadu - Open Encyclopedia
		Xanadu is also the fictional mansion built by Charles Foster Kane in the film Citizen Kane.
		Xanadu Regio is an enigmatic bright feature on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan.
		Xanadu (or Shangdu) was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's empire (1215 - 1294), which covered much of Asia.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Xanadu (3911 words)

	Project Xanadu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aptly, Xanadu was also the name of the never-completed mansion of Citizen Kane in the Orson Welles film of the same name.
		Project Xanadu was founded by Ted Nelson in 1960 as the original hypertext project.
		Transclusion in Xanadu allows two-way links between any part of documents, whereas the web only has one-way linking to complete documents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Project_Xanadu (992 words)

	Xanadu1.htm
		Xanadu - The name given to the mansion built by Kane in "Citizen Kane"
		"Project Xanadu has had as its purpose to build a deep-reach electronic literary system for worldwide use"
		Xanadu is a claim, vision, and example of something better
	class.ee.iastate.edu /berleant/home/Courses/text/Xanadu1.htm (773 words)

	Film/Classic: Citizen Kane
		Susan packs her bags to leave Xanadu and Kane implores her not to, promising that "everything will be exactly the way you want it to be," adding "You can’t do this to me." "Oh, yes I can," she says on her way out.
		Susan is next seen with a jigsaw puzzle on the floor in front of a large fireplace at Xanadu, an enormous castle-like mansion Kane has built for them on 49,000 acres in Florida.
		The structure of the film is that a newspaper sends out an investigative reporter to find out the meaning of his last word, "Rosebud," and he interviews many people who had been close to Kane during his life and their interviews flashback to various episodes in his career.
	www.thecityreview.com /kane.html (4042 words)

	Review: Citizen Kane
		Xanadu, in the words of the faux newsreel that gives a brief history of Kane's life, is the "costliest monument of a man to himself." Any resemblance to The Ranch, William Randolph Hearst's real-life San Simeon abode, is not coincidental.
		We quickly learn that this place, called Xanadu, is the dwelling of America's Kubla Khan, Charles Foster Kane (Welles), a one-time newspaper magnate who could have become President if not for an ill-advised extramarital affair.
		Within moments of the film's eerie, visually-stunning opening, Kane is dead, uttering the word "Rosebud" as he hunches over.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/c/citizen.html (1409 words)

	Citizen Kane (1941)
		Kane's coffin emerges from Xanadu as it is borne by coffin-bearers.
		The film was accused of drawing remarkable, unflattering, and uncomplimentary parallels (especially in regards to the Susan Alexander Kane character) to real-life.
		[A sign on a gate reads: FACTORY CLOSED, NO TRESPASSING] [1929] [Another sign reads: CLOSED] [The signs repeat the theme of closure/death from the film's opening shot.] Then, in the first year of the Great Depression, a Kane paper closes [On the St.
	www.filmsite.org /citi.html (3911 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Digital Xanadu: Citizen Kane on DVD
		A film that was an attack across the bow of an enormously successful 78 year old plutocrat by a precocious 26-year-old bursting at the seams with a combination of pretension, condescension, talent and emotions that he could barely contain can now be explored, almost like a novel.
		It's a chance to study a film touted by its makers as ushering in a new phase of cinematic realism, which of course, was nothing of the sort-and film history is all the more better for it.
		For a film that many consider the best ever made (It was named the American Film Institute's top film of all time and it frequently tops the list of Britain's snobbish Sight and Sound magazine), this release - on what is currently the best home viewing format - is long overdue.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2002/09/25/133806.php (2961 words)

	Articles - Kubla Khan
		As his palatial mansion is named Xanadu, the opening lines also appear in the film Citizen Kane.
		The Xanadu Beach Resort and Marina was built in Freeport, on Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas.
		Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu hypertext system was named in honor of the poem.
	www.foreverd.com /articles/Kubla_Khan (763 words)

	Citizen Kane (Bernard Herrmann) - scorereviews.com soundtrack review
		Further there is a great deal of dark, dramatic music, such as the opening "Prelude", "Xanadu" and "Leland's Dismissal".
		And this recording is a worthy representation of a score that belongs in every film music fan's collection.
		There's the grand music in "Valse Presentation" and the beautiful waltz in "Theme and Variations" and the lovely "Susan's Room" with its soft woodwind solos.
	www.scorereviews.com /title.asp?id=109 (763 words)

	SoundtrackNet : Citizen Kane Soundtrack
		The other one is the "Finale" cue - the sheer power of the music as it goes from the optimistic Kane theme into the terrifyingly dark Xanadu theme (with the large orchestral chords) still sends chills down my spine.
		Citizen Kane was (and still is) a brilliant film.
	www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database?id=2389 (763 words)

	Welcome to TheRaider.net
		For the interiors I wanted an ominous feel to the place that reflected the menacingly huge exterior, so I drew my inspiration from the lonely Castle "Xanadu" in 'Citizen Kane'… I even went to Hearst Castle just north of here to gather texture reference for some of the garish embellishment seen in Prague castle.
		All you hear is a couple of meaty "thwacks!" before a guard goes sliding past the camera.
		Schwarzenegger in 'Commando' is a prime example of a similar brawling style.
	www.theraider.net /features/interviews/interview_collectiveteam.php (763 words)

	SoundtrackCollector: Soundtrack details: Citizen Kane
		Xanadu; Jigsaw Puzzles (Perpetual Motion); Second Xanadu (03:49)
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	www.soundtrackcollector.com /catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=6467 (763 words)

	Xanadu, California CA, imaginary place profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Private estate pictured in the opening and ending scenes of the 1941 movie, "Citizen Kane"
		California > All counties > San Luis Obispo County > Xanadu
		Xanadu, California CA, imaginary place profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=61178 (145 words)

	Slumberland » 2000 » April
		For some strange reason, Roller Boogie is not nominated, while Xanadu is. Come on, Xanadu is the Citizen Kane of roller rink movies, at least when compared with Roller Boogie.
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	slumberland.org /wp?m=20000404 (228 words)

	village voice > film > The Magnificent Ambersons by J. Hoberman
		The Magnificent Ambersons, however different in tone and subject from Citizen Kane, gave every indication of being a comparable precocious masterpiece.
		Welles had adapted The Magnificent Ambersons as a radio play two years before (assigning himself the role of Georgie), and not even Kane made more effective use of dramatic sound.
		The film language is more fluid and adept than Kane's, the expressionist lighting is more rigorously modulated.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0407/hoberman.php (800 words)

	crypt35
		Hearst was damn near the richest man in the world when Orson Welles- then in his twenties - collaborated with Herman Mankiewicz on "Citizen Kane." Mankiewicz was a colorful drunk and writer who'd been to many, many Hearst parties at San Simeon.
		According to the story, Welles and Mankiewicz ran the script for "Kane" by studio lawyers and then laughed and joked about how they would stick it to Hearst while working the phrase "Rosebud" into the movie as Charles Foster Kane's dying word.
		On and on Bill went about his Xanadu, the mega-gajillion Gates electro-fortress being built as a small republic outside Seattle.
	sun.soci.niu.edu /~crypt/other/crypt35 (800 words)

	Episode 812: The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies / the Distributed MST3K Annotation Project
		The line in Citizen Kane is "Xanadu, stately home of Charles Foster Kane." Charles Whitman was the ex-marine who went on a massacre in August 1966, shooting with a sniper rifle from the clock tower in the University of Texas.
		Might be a reference to an urban legend from the 1950s, about a young woman dying as a result of a nest of poisonous spiders lodging without her knowing in her voluminous bouffant hairdo.
		Elizabeth Taylor (1932-) is an English-born actress who launched her own line of perfume, titled Elizabeth Taylor's Passion, in the late 1980s.
	www.dapcentral.org /ap/episodes/0812 (1566 words)

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