Rosebud: The Stors of Orson Welles
How did the brilliant young man who made Citizen Kane in the '40s turn into a dumpy pitchman for California jug wine in the '70s? How, one might also ask, did an orphaned boy from suburban Illinois become one of the most influential filmmakers of all time? These questions drive Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles, David Thomson's idiosyncratic narrative on Welles, in which Kane becomes a biographical metaphor for extraordinary talent, charm, and power. Thomson seems to prove once and for all that the character Kane is not William Randolph Hearst, but Welles himself