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'Orson Welles would later tell a story (which would eventually be dramatized in the HBO movie RKO 281, about the making of Citizen Kane) about being at San Francisco's famous Fairmont Hotel on the night that Kane opened in the city. Welles was waiting for an elevator, he said, and suddenly the doors opened and there stood William Randolph Hearst himself. Welles stepped into the elevator, introduced himself, and brazenly invited the older man to the premiere later that night--an invitation to which Hearst responded with stony silence. As the doors opened at Hearst's floor and he got out, Welles called after him: "Charles Foster Kane would have accepted!'
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