I am sure Trump has never seen Citizen Kane. He’s repeating what other people have said about it.
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No, I think he watched it. Seriously.
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If so, there’s no way he understood it.
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I think he did…from his POV, Charles Foster Kane was a hero. I do doubt he understood the significance of “Rosebud” in the movie. I doubt if he even knows about what “Rosebud” allegedly meant in real life (Hearst’s name for Marion Davies’ clitoris)!
Wait, what? I’ve never heard that!!!
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Wow!!! I’ve known it for years. I haven’t seen “Mank”; I wonder if it’s mentioned in there?
I think I first read about it in “Bring on the Empty Horses!” by David Niven. I’ve read so much history about films and Hollywood, though, so it could’ve been from somewhere else.
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I heard it in a documentary from the 1990s about Welles and the making of Citizen Kane — probably the American Experience. I think it’s just a titillating rumor people like to speculate about. It could be something Welles and Mankiewicz put in the movie as an inside joke. But how can we know, and how can anyone know what Hearst and Davies talked about behind closed doors?
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From what I read, it was Mank’s joke to name the sled “Rosebud” in the first place. as he had the axe to grind w/Hearst. But…
Davies drank a lot, and who knew what she may’ve said to whom? And there were Filipino servants who could’ve been bribed for info. Maybe Hearst told someone himself - someone whom he shouldn’t have.
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Cute little rom-zom-com. Awkward nerdy girl has a drunken one night stand with rich pretty boy, and they wake up to the zombie apocalypse.
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it’s actually on my calendar, haha
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Happy Halloween
… I had forgotten that the original George Romero zombies could pick things up and use weapons
They also had that in the first episode of “The Walking Dead” but then they changed their minds
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