Tag: William Randolph Hearst
Mank Arrives As A Sort of Elegy For What Screenwriting–Ergo Film–Used to Be
Although David Fincher couldn’t have known while in the long preproduction phase of Mank that a sinister disease called COVID-19 was brewing to help take [Read More…]
Gossip Girl: Why There Will Never Be Another Gossip Queen as Powerful as Hedda Hopper
For those out of touch with the 1950s, Perez Hilton has nothing on the original gossip queen, Hedda Hopper. Like most gossip columnists, Hopper had [Read More…]
Why Citizen Kane Is An Insult to William Randolph Hearst
Citizen Kane, consistently regarded as one of the best pieces of American cinema ever made, may be intended as an homage to William Randolph Hearst–even [Read More…]
