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4. The Hearst Connection

You may know that Citizen Kane is based on the life of infamous news magnate William Randolph Hearst (a man who once tried to instigate a war to sell papers). What you might not know is that the film’s co-writer, Herman J. Mankiewicz, actually had an axe to grind with the newsman. Mankiewicz was friends with Hearst until he was expelled from the magnate’s social circle for unknown reasons.

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