PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Harlan Lebo is a senior fellow at the Center for the Digital Future in the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. He has written books about The Godfather, Casablanca, and a coffee-table book on Citizen Kane, and has served as a historical consultant to Paramount Pictures for the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Citizen Kane. He lives in California.
Here's another book that overcame my skepticism. What didn't I already know about Orson Welles and Citizen Kane? Quite a bit, it turns out--and high time for a refresher. This welcome update and expansion of a 1990 book in trade paperback form tells the whole story of Welles and his notorious debut film in a concise and straightforward manner. He settles the Herman Mankiewicz screenplay kerfuffle in short order, as the final shooting script lacks dialogue and entire scenes that Welles added or invented at the last minute. --Leonard Maltin (2/18/2022 12:00:00 AM)
