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Introduction: “The high priest of the cinema” ix 1. “God, how they’ll love me when I’m dead!” 3 2. “Committing masterpieces” 29 3. Orson Welles at large 81 4. “Twilight in the Smog” 137 5. “Your friendly neighborhood grocery store” 163 6. “No wine before its time” 223 Acknowledgments 307 Sources 310 Index 331 CONTENTS McB*FrontMtr.indd 7 8/1/06 5:39:45 PM “The Film of Films”: François Truffaut’s description of Citizen Kane (1941). Despite the great acclaim the twenty-five-year-old Welles received for his first feature film, the backlash caused by its fictionalized portrait of the powerful publisher William Randolph Hearst caused permanent damage to Welles’s Hollywood career. (RKO Radio Pictures) McB*FrontMtr.indd 8 8/1/06 5:39:46 PM ...

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