Orson Welles as KK/buds

[calbert at pop.tiac.net]

Max sez:
>           In additon to doing all these activities, Welles was something of 
> an insult artist (a flamer) who delighted in tweaking the noses of the rich 
> and powerful.  In particular he seemed to have a grudge against William 
> Randolph Hearst, whose mistress was one Marion Davies (watch the film CITIZEN 
> KANE).  It came to Welles' attention that Hearst affectionate nickname for 
> Miss Davies was what he called her pudenda, when he addressed it in private, 
> "Rosebud."  So having the film Citizen Kane focus on the word, seemingly 
> innocuous to the public, was really an insider joke, and a very complex 
> insult. Welles' was of flaming old man Hearst.

I've been told that Hearst was a notorious 'freckle puncher', and 
that Rosebud ( as the symbol might suggest) was Hearst's term for 
Marion Davis' (to borrow a term from the great Chris K.) oomphalos of 
abjection.

Pudenda - that's sweet, but I suspect few would be stung by such an 
allusion. Call a guy out as a sodomite - now that smarts!

love,
cfa