Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Sylvia and I started dating in the summer of 1975. She was a school teacher. It seemed to me that the school session from Labor Day until Thanksgiving was just too long. I persuaded her to take a long weekend in the middle of October. I made a reservation at the Little River Inn for three nights for the third weekend in October. (I do not recall how I selected Little River Inn). We arrived very late Friday night, as we drove from Willits to Fort Bragg rather than from Cloverdale... Read More