STEFANO BOSCUTTI

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Journal

Public, personal and private insights, thoughts, reminders, scenes, ideas, sketches and more. Along with an admonishment or two every now and then.

Photo of RKO Radio Pictures studio in Hollywood.

Orson Welles: RKO contract

Write it

Photo of Orson Welles on the set of “Citizen Kane” checking the viewfinder with cinematographer Gregg Toland.

Orson Welles: Preparing for “Citizen Kane”

Photo of Orson Welles getting hair and makeup on “Citizen Kane”.

Orson Welles: “Citizen Kane” make-up

Photo of Orson Welles with composer Bernard Herrmann.

Orson Welles: The real function of music

Photo of “Citizen Kane” premiere at the RKO Palace on Broadway in New York.

Orson Welles: “Citizen Kane” premiere

John Fowles on the fate of the novel in the age of the cinema

It isn’t a premonition

Portrait of nespaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.

Orson Welles: Meeting William Randolph Hearst

Orson Welles: “Citizen Kane” negative criticism

Orson Welles: “Citizen Kane” negative criticism

A wretched loss

Robert Towne spells it out