Issues with Jane Velez Mitchell - Wed., 1/14/09

[mollie]

What does 'Rosebud' mean?
and why is lying to LE okay? I thought that alone would be a CRIME????
Every person is lying and nothing is done about it................I never knew you could lie like this!!! MOO

Rosebud was from a great movie, Citizen Kane by Orsen Wells. The movie opens with his dying breath, saying "rosebud". It's a fabulous movie, one the all time best, and throughout it, you are wondering about "rosebud" and what great meaning it has. He's a tycoon, not always a nice guy, just a sec, I'll pull info from imdb:

It's 1941, and newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles, who also directed and co-wrote the script) is dead. The opening shots show Xanadu, Kane's vast, elaborate, now unkempt estate in Florida. Interspersed with segments of his newsreel obituary are scenes from his life and death. Most puzzling are his last moments: clutching a snowglobe, he mutters "rosebud." Kane, whose life was news and whose newspapers not only reported but formed public opinion, was central to his time, a larger-than-life figure. The newsreel editor feels that until they know who or what Rosebud is they won't have the whole story on Kane. He assigns a reporter called Thompson (William Alland) to find Rosebud.

 

[passionflower]

a caller wants to know why the average person doesn't get great lawyers and money to help them.........the more money ....you get off!

 

[passionflower]

It's a famous one word line from the 1941 movie Citizen Kain.

The discovery and revelation of the mystery of the life of the multi-millionaire publishing tycoon is determined through a reporter's search for the meaning of his single, cryptic dying word: "Rosebud" - in part, the film's plot enabling device - or McGuffin (MacGuffin). However, no-one was present to hear him utter the elusive last word. The reporter looks for clues to the word's identity by researching the newspaper publisher's life, through interviews with several of Kane's former friends and colleagues. Was it a favorite pet or nickname of a lost love? Or the name of a racehorse?

At film's end, the identity of "Rosebud" is revealed, but only to the film audience.

[One source, Gore Vidal - a close friend of Hearst, wildly claimed in 1989 in a short memoir in the New York Review of Books that "Rosebud" was a euphemism for the most intimate part of his long-time mistress Marion Davies' female anatomy.]

http://www.filmsite.org/citi.html

thanks!!!

 

[Jolynna]

Saying RK owes $10,000 in back child support.

Which changes nothing about who he called when or what he saw.

 

[mimi56]

Which changes nothing about who he called when or what he saw.

Agreed. I wasn't implying that it did. Only relaying what was reported on the show.

 

[Kat]

I missed the show tonight. I know Patty will post them later, because she rocks!

OT: Citizen Kane....Fantastic movie, now I need to rent it again!

 

[radio]

Which changes nothing about who he called when or what he saw.

Guess with his financial problems he was moonlighting the case maybe.

 

[DotsEyes]

I thought Rosebud was his sled as a kid.

 

[radio]

I thought Rosebud was his sled as a kid.

Thats what I thought too.

 

[sharpar]

In the film it was - Vidal is passing the rumor that Wells used Rosebud
because Kane is based on Hearst and that was a major jab at him .

The film is interesting the stories behind the film are fascinating
and the making of it was full of obstacles and intrigue - Hearst
did not want it made .

 

[passionflower]

is there a thread for today? 1/15/09??? looking........

 

[radio]

is there a thread for today? 1/15/09??? looking........

a transcript...
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0901/15/ijvm.01.html