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...Citizen Kane...
...October 30th, offered a Mischief Night ad-aptation of "The War of the Worlds" - a sensation when thousands of listen-ers took fright, and flight, from the story of a Martian colonization of America. And in 1941, five days before Welles? 26th birthday, RKO released "Citizen Kane," a sensation that publisher William Randolph Hearst tried to stop because he believed it was a libel on his life. The film, a financial flop when released, is now commonly called the greatest ever made...
...That?s a shame, because it?s a huge (some 200 hours over 20 years) and impressive body of work, and it?s the overwhelming extant evidence of the Wellesian preoccupations and attitudes that gave birth to "Kane" and its kin. Nearly every actor who appeared in "Kane" - Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead,William Alland, Paul Stewart - had worked with Welles on radio. Herman J. Mankiewicz, the screenwriter of "Kane," had penned several "Campbell Playhouse" episodes, including "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" and "Huckleberry Finn." Houseman, who midwifed the "Kane" script, effectively produced the radio...
...front, Uhse later liberated Germany's attitude towards sex with her "orderly" approach to selling everything from pornographic videos to flavored condoms and leather masks. SENTENCED. JEFFREY ARCHER, 61, British novelist and politician, to four years in prison for perjury; in London. Archer, the best-selling author of Kane and Abel, had diaries forged to support his 1987 libel suit against the Star newspaper, which reported that he had sex with a prostitute. NATURALIZED. VICTOR ARITOMI, 64, former Peruvian envoy to Japan and brother-in-law of ex-President Alberto Fujimori, as a Japanese citizen; in Tokyo. Aritomi, who gave...
...Fanning their worries is a new study by Thomas Kane, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, who simulated how the bills would have affected schools in Texas and North Carolina between 1994 and 1999. Despite being widely hailed as exemplars, Kane found that nearly every school in those states would have been considered a failure at some point during that time period. A major problem, he explains, is the requirement that schools must show unremitting annual progress, an absurd statistical goal when scores often fluctuate from year to year, and even from one test-taking session...