

WHY GATSBY IS GREAT
View of the Pacific from Hearst Castle in San Simeon Last fall, J and I drove down the California coast to San Simeon and spent an entire day at the famed Hearst Castle. While we wound our way through the magical estate, I started to think about William Randolph Hearst and Orson Welles' stinging and mythical portrayal of him in Citizen Kane, which still overshadows the truth of his life. To most of us, he was always be that great and lonely man in a very big house. Another my