The Buzz: Rosebud

Published 8:34 pm Friday, March 13, 2015

Now showing at Xanadu: Film buffs enjoyed a rare opportunity Friday to view “Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles’ film classic that William Randolph Hearst tried to suppress because it lampooned him, in the tycoon’s personal theater at his castle in San Simeon, California.

In other movie news, a pristine 70 mm print of “Star Wars” will be screened in Grand Moff Tarkin’s personal theater aboard the Death Star.

CyberSmokey and the Bandit: A self-driving car developed by Michigan-based auto supplier Delphi Automotive will make a 3,500-mile cross-country road trip starting March 22 in San Francisco and ending in New York about a week later.

A human will sit behind the wheel at all times but won’t touch it unless there’s a situation the car can’t handle — like an encounter with Sheriff Buford T. Justice in Montague County, Texas.

Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1923, Warren G. Harding became the first president to file an income tax return, paying nearly $18,000 in taxes on his $75,000 salary.

This concludes the complete text of “Highlights of the Warren G. Harding Presidency.”

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff