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DRUNK HISTORY
August 5, 2014  | By David Bianculli

Comedy Central, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

This new edition is devoted to Hollywood, and one of its segments is on the making of Citizen Kane – featuring John Lithgow, who’s playing King Lear in Shakespeare at the Park right now in New York, as media baron William Randolph Hearst (how’s that for an eclectic resume), and Jack Black as Welles, who lampooned Hearst so devilishly in his classic film. By the way: the brief preview segment of this episode didn’t reveal the greatest secret about Citizen Kane (think “Rosebud,” but in a different context), but if it’s not in this show, the drunk guy telling the Kane story may not know it. I heard it from Bob Hope, as perhaps the best insider show-biz story I ever heard. Come to think of it, Bob Hope told me the second best story, too, about Milton Berle at a poker game hosted by Jackie Gleason. But I digress…

 
 
 
 
 
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