![]() ![]() Though Charles Foster Kane was indisputably based largely on Davies’s partner, William Randolph Hearst, the truth about Marion and Susan is much more complicated. “What we did to her.” Welles also wrote the foreword to Davies’s posthumously published 1975 memoir, The Times We Had: Life with William Randolph Hearst, in which he tried to set the record straight. ![]() “It seemed to me to be something of a dirty trick and still strikes me as something of a dirty trick,” a regretful Welles said. In 1982, just three years before his death, Welles reflected on Marion Davies, the Hollywood actor who allegedly inspired Citizen Kane’s talentless blonde opera singer, Susan Alexander Kane. And though Welles has plenty to be proud of when it comes to Kane, there is one regret about it that followed him for the rest of his life. Mankiewicz ( Gary Oldman), the oft-forgotten screenwriter who fought to claim cowriting credit on the film, the person whose legacy was forever cemented by Citizen Kane is, of course, its director and star Orson Welles. Though it’s a troubled male-genius narrative centered on Herman J. David Fincher’s new film Mank follows the rocky, boozy road to the great cinematic masterpiece that is 1941’s Citizen Kane. ![]()
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![]() The house was approached by gravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. It stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees, throughwhich glimpses could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.īuck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. ![]() ![]() "Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain."īuck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. ![]() ![]() ![]() How bad could it be to be fauxmantically involved with one of the cutest rockstars on the planet? Holly's about to find out. But the band can't risk a scandal destroying their family-friendly image, so Dominic convinces Holly to be his fake girlfriend-just for two weeks. Suddenly rumors are swirling, and Holly's face is captured on countless phones and plastered all over the Internet. Because Nick just happens to be Dominic Wyatt, drummer for ReadySet-one of the hottest bands in America. But when Holly goes to make her exit, she gets the shock of her life: a corridor crammed with screaming teenage fans. ![]() The culprit? A gorgeous guy calling himself Nick. And when in a moment of seasick-fueled desperation she lurches into an open suite-she's greeted with an eyeful of pepper spray. ![]() Spending Christmas vacation on a cruise with her two cousins from hell isn't Holly's idea of a good time. Holly Dayton is about to go way out of her comfort zone. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I never in my mind would have imagined that I would be out and talking about my book and talking about me as an artist in this way. And, like, what is this world? And we didn't have gay marriage yet. "When I was coming out during this time, I was very much a part of white lesbian circles and trying to understand the, like, what is a Tegan and Sara and an Ani DiFranco. ![]() "I was 19 in the early 2000s, right?" she says. The book is set in 2003, and Juliet listens to music easily recognizable from that era, artists like Ani DiFranco. Rivera borrowed the story from her own life - like she once did, Juliet heads to Portland, Ore., to intern for a white feminist writer. It's the coming-of-age story of a college kid from the Bronx trying to figure out who she is - a feminist, a lesbian, dying to get out of the Bronx, "messy, emotional, book nerd weirdo, chubby brown human, a jumble of awkward bits and glory." Gabby Rivera writes strong Latina characters, from the queer Marvel superhero America Chavez to the Puerto Rican protagonist in her new novel, Juliet Takes a Breath. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Juliet Takes a Breath Author Gabby Rivera ![]() ![]() ![]() When the last maristag of the year escapes and Koral has no new maristag to sell, her family's financial situation takes a turn for the worse and they can't afford medicine for her chronically ill little sister. The winning contender receives gold and glory. ![]() In an oceanic world swarming with vicious beasts, the Landers―the ruling elite, have indentured Koral's family to provide the maristags for the Glory Race, a deadly chariot tournament reserved for the upper class. They have to, or else their family will starve. Sixteen-year-old Koral and her older brother Emrik risk their lives each day to capture the monstrous maristags that live in the black seas around their island. ![]() ![]() ![]() Remica Bingham-Rishers Soul Culture is more map than book. 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With a genius all her own, and in the blackest ink, Remica Bingham-Risher has woven us a gorgeous, intergenerational and polyvocal history of kinship, perseverance, Black poetry, and love. ![]() ![]() Poets Commemorate China's Nanking Massacre 'Soul Culture is the nourishment, the love, the light, the dark, the beauty. ARCHIVED POETS CLICK THESE NAMES TO HEAR THE PROGRAM ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ramses too has had hundreds of years of past plots and relationships to mull over in his noble head, whilst playing God with the ability to keep others young forever, in the same manner as his hedonistic and pompous self. (Can you believe that we first encountered Lestat in 1976?). THE MUMMY was gleefully passed around many an office worker back in the day, with all Anne Rice fans anticipating another lust worthy brat in the vein (pardon the pun) of Lestat from the Vampire Chronicles. It's been a long time since we saw his blue eyes on lurid paperback covers way back in 1989. ![]() The glorious wallowing can be a bit of an acquired taste and all that navel gazing can come at the expense of plot.Īs lovingly gothic and melodramatic the characters may still be, it was an absolute treat to experience Rice's creation King Ramses once again. If like this reviewer you haven't read an Anne Rice novel for some years, what you might also be anticipating is some lovely floral prose that waxes lyrical about everything from flowers to landscapes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a voice as immediate and startling as those of Junot Díaz and NoViolet Bulawayo, America Is Not the Heart is a sprawling, soulful telenovela of a debut novel. ![]() Illuminating the violent political history of the Philippines in the 1980s and 1990s and the insular immigrant communities that spring up in the suburban United States with an uncanny ear for the unspoken intimacies and pain that get buried by the duties of everyday life and family ritual, Castillo delivers a powerful, increasingly relevant novel about the promise of the American dream and the unshakable power of the past. Only their daughter, Roni, asks Hero why her hands seem to constantly ache. And his younger wife, Paz, has learned enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. ![]() Her uncle, Pol, who has offered her a fresh start and a place to stay in the Bay Area, knows not to ask about her past. How many lives can one person lead in a single lifetime? When Hero de Vera arrives in America, disowned by her parents in the Philippines, she's already on her third. Three generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind with the life they're building in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even after saving Katniss, she doesn't want to intrude or bother her. Her first words in the series encapsulate her character well she prefers to stay out of the way. Rue doesn't speak for a long time in the first movie, so her first line isn't until after she heals Katniss's tracker jacker stings. Snow has already lost his power at this point, and she finally sees that Coin isn't all that different from him. When Coin proposes the honorary Hunger Games, Katniss sides with her, so Coin doesn't have the slightest idea that Katniss is about to end her presidency - and her life. Much of Panem is on tenterhooks, waiting for Katniss to execute Snow, but Katniss remembers who the real enemy is. In President Coin's final moments, she gives a speech that's just as stately and portentous as ever. LAST: "Mockingjay, may your aim be as true as your heart is pure." ![]() Coin seems to have great respect for Katniss, but even at this first meeting, she always cares more about the revolution than the Mockingjay's wellbeing. Plutarch is the one to introduce them as they plan to explain the role of the Mockingjay and what they expect of her. ![]() The audience meets her in Mockingjay - Part 1 at the same does Katniss does. FIRST: "What an honor it is to meet you."Ĭoin is one of the best characters introduced in the Hunger Games sequels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Knowles claims that his evidence came from letters from Wollstonecraft to Fuseli, letters that Fuseli had refused to return when Wollstonecraft asked him to. Knowles's biography was published six years after Fuseli's death. ![]() Note that the Vermont piece, but not the Knowles or Pernell ones, mentions that the cup was breached! John Knowles, Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Vol 1, 1831, p.164-5. ![]() These notions had their influence also in regard to the conveniences of life for when the Prince Talleyrand was in this country, in a low condition with regard to his pecuniary affairs, and visited her, they drank their tea, and the little wine they took, indiscriminately from tea-cups. Fuseli found in her (what he most disliked in woman) a philosophical sloven: her usual dress being a habit of coarse cloth, such as is now worn by milk-women, black worsted stockings, and a beaver hat, with her hair hanging lank about her shoulders. Wondering where Pennell had gotten the anecdote from, I asked the Twitter Wollstonecraft community, and got the following story:įirst Emma Clery, specified the source of the Pennell reference: John Knowles, the 19th century biographer of the man who rejected Wollstonecraft in 1792, Henri Fuseli, described her as a 'sloven ', citing the breached teacup anecdote as evidence. She is said to have once entertained the Marquis de Talleyrand in her lodgings on George Street, and served him tea, then wine, in a breached teacup (Elizabeth Pennell, 1885. Mary Wollstonecraft was not known for her dedication to domesticity. ![]() |