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"I don't think there's one word that can describe a man's life." Orson Welles' 1941 movie "Citizen Kane" is ranked highly by many. The pulsating tale of Charles Foster Kane - a publishing tycoon - who bore an uncanny resemblance to William Randolph Hearst. (Tribute by CappyNJ. Music: 'Somebody to Love' by Queen.)

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zecbmo : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

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481 days 1 hour ago...

first film to have roofs in it

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MaxPowers_00001 : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

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480 days 20 hours ago...

"Look! Theres the Cane From Citizen Kane!"

5/5 for QUEEN!!!!

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julianvdv : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

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466 days 15 hours ago...

jesus christ! from this alone you can see how mother fucking brilliant the filming is!!!
im checking this out for sure.
thank you shapesphere.

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Mutio : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

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466 days 15 hours ago...

Such an epic movie, see it if you havent yet

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ReX : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

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466 days 14 hours ago...

The movie would have been truly epic if it had included more of WRH`s biographical stories. Such as prohibition:

1898: The Spanish American War erupts. During the war, the marijuana-smoking army of Panco Villa seizes 800,000 acres of prime Mexican timberland belonging to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.

The timber from this land was used to manufacture newsprint for Hearst`s publishing empire. Hearst begins a 30-year propaganda campaign denouncing Spaniards, Mexican-Americans and Latinos, portraying Mexicans as lazy pot-smoking layabouts.

Since hemp is an annually renewable source, which requires minimal chemical treatment to process, the advent of hemp pulp paper would allegedly have been better for the environment than the sulfuric acid wood-pulping process. Hemp had many champions, who predicted that its abundance and versatility would soon revitalize the American economy. William Randolph Hearst, media mogul, billionaire and real-life model for Orson Welles` Citizen Kane, had different ideas. His aggressive efforts to demonize cannabis were so effective, they continue to color popular opinion today.In the early 1930`s, Hearst owned a good deal of timber acreage; one might say that he had the monopoly on this market. The threatened advent of mass hemp production proved a considerable threat to his massive paper-mill holdings -- he stood to lose many, many millions of dollars to the lowly hemp plant. Hearst cleverly utilized his immense national network of newspapers and magazines to spread wildly inaccurate and sensational stories of the evils of cannabis or "marihuana," a phrase brought into the common parlance, in part due to frequent mentions in his publications.

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MysticMan : LVL 21: VP 3: said:

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465 days 23 hours ago...

You showed people rosebud was the bobsled,
or was it a red herring *Dr Evil look with the pinky up to the mouth*

It was the name of his woman`s poonani

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