The blood vessels of the skin are one of the few areas of the body where the vessels are innervated by both the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions.
Alone and unloved, Kane awaits the inescapable hand of death. The script for Citizen Kane, written by Herman J. Mankiewicz (with an assist from Welles), is a thinly-disguised fictional biography of publishing king William Randolph Hearst, who was 76 years old when the movie came out in 1941.
Kane, though, has never undergone a comparable collapse in fortune. And if Thomson is right, being hailed for 50 years as the best film ever made may simply be the first stage on the road to a higher status â as the emblem of the medium that made it. Postscript. In the poll, Vertigo replaced Citizen Kane in top spot. Here is Tim Robey's verdict on that.