When I was young I watched Citizen Kane on TV solely because of a reference to "Rosebud" I saw in Mad Magazine. William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davis didn't appreciate the Rosebud reference when the film came out.
A Rosebud in the snow http://www.mardecortesbaja.com/snow%20citizen%20kane%20rosebud.jpg
An Old Story
I
It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad. The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway, The church-spires flamed, such flags they had, A year ago on this very day!
II
The air broke into a mist with bells, The old walls rocked with the crowds and cries. Had I said, “Good folks, mere noise repels— But give me your sun from yonder skies!” They had answered, “And afterward, what else?”
III
Alack, it was I who leaped at the sun, To give it my loving friends to keep. Nought man could do have I left undone, And you see my harvest, what I reap This very day, now a year is run.
IV
There’s nobody on the house-tops now— Just a palsied few at the windows set— For the best of the sight is, all allow, At the Shambles’ Gate—or, better yet, By the very scaffold’s foot, I trow.
V
I go in the rain, and, more than needs, A rope cuts both my wrists behind, And I think, by the feel, my forehead bleeds, For they fling, whoever has a mind, Stones at me for my year’s misdeeds.
VI
Thus I entered Brescia, and thus I go! In such triumphs, people have dropped down dead. “Thou, paid by the World,—what dost thou owe Me?” God might have questioned; but now instead ’Tis God shall requite! I am safer so.
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When I was young I watched Citizen Kane on TV solely because of a reference to "Rosebud" I saw in Mad Magazine.
Q: What’s worse than a lobster on your piano?
A: Aphids on your rosebud!
(Glad to see someone’s practicing good hygiene.)
When I was young I watched Citizen Kane on TV solely because of a reference to "Rosebud" I saw in Mad Magazine.
William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davis didn't appreciate the Rosebud reference when the film came out.
Of course they didn't - unlike the reporter in the movie, WR Hearst and Marion Davies knew what it meant.
When the page opened the title showed before the photo loaded. In that moment I fully expected to see a sled.
^^^
Hearst's pet name for his favorite portion of Marion Davies' cuerpo?
Anyone else think "Rosebud" is a cheap shot in what's otherwise a brilliant movie?
A Rosebud in the snow
http://www.mardecortesbaja.com/snow%20citizen%20kane%20rosebud.jpg
An Old Story
I
It was roses, roses, all the way,
With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway,
The church-spires flamed, such flags they had,
A year ago on this very day!
II
The air broke into a mist with bells,
The old walls rocked with the crowds and cries.
Had I said, “Good folks, mere noise repels—
But give me your sun from yonder skies!”
They had answered, “And afterward, what else?”
III
Alack, it was I who leaped at the sun,
To give it my loving friends to keep.
Nought man could do have I left undone,
And you see my harvest, what I reap
This very day, now a year is run.
IV
There’s nobody on the house-tops now—
Just a palsied few at the windows set—
For the best of the sight is, all allow,
At the Shambles’ Gate—or, better yet,
By the very scaffold’s foot, I trow.
V
I go in the rain, and, more than needs,
A rope cuts both my wrists behind,
And I think, by the feel, my forehead bleeds,
For they fling, whoever has a mind,
Stones at me for my year’s misdeeds.
VI
Thus I entered Brescia, and thus I go!
In such triumphs, people have dropped down dead.
“Thou, paid by the World,—what dost thou owe
Me?” God might have questioned; but now instead
’Tis God shall requite! I am safer so.
"The Patriot" Robert Browning
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