Ben’ana Foster Kane – Charles Foster Kane aka Citizen Kane and Bananas Foster
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Ben%27ana_Foster_Kane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Foster_Kane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane
https://bakefromscratch.com/bananas-foster/
Thank you to Mike S. for supplying the Bananas Foster reference.
Ben’ana Foster Kane has an axe to grind with one particular Sani-Bot. R0S1E stormed into his home and caused him to drop his favorite snow globe on the floor. He demands that R0S1E must be destroyed.
After defeating Max-Strength Sani-Bots and R0S1E in Zanadu’s sewers, Ben’ana wants your wizard to help with another created conflict to avenge his old sled. He asks your wizard, “What do you say? You supply the spells, I supply the war?” When you turn him down he summarily dismisses you.
Charles Foster Kane is a fictional character who is the subject of Orson Welles’ 1941 film Citizen Kane. Welles played Kane (receiving an Academy Award nomination), with Buddy Swan playing Kane as a child. Welles also produced, co-wrote and directed the film, winning an Oscar for writing the film.
The general consensus is that publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst is the primary inspiration behind Charles Foster Kane. In the film, Kane is given the line “You provide the prose poems; I’ll provide the war,” undeniably similar to “You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war,” a quote widely attributed to Hearst.
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If you’ve never seen “Citizen Kane” (1941), I highly recommend this film.
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles. Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote the screenplay. The picture was Welles’s first feature film.
In a mansion called Xanadu, part of a vast palatial estate in Florida, the elderly Charles Foster Kane is on his deathbed. Holding a snow globe, he utters his last word, “Rosebud”, and dies as the snowglobe falls to the floor and breaks. A newsreel obituary tells the life story of Kane, an enormously wealthy newspaper publisher and industry magnate. Kane’s death becomes sensational news around the world, and the newsreel’s producer tasks reporter Jerry Thompson with discovering the meaning of “Rosebud”.
In 1871, gold was discovered through a mining deed belonging to Kane’s mother, Mary Kane. She hired Thatcher to establish a trust that would provide for Kane’s education and assume guardianship of him. While the parents and Thatcher discussed arrangements inside the boarding house, the young Kane played happily with a sled in the snow outside. When Kane’s parents introduced him to Thatcher, the boy struck Thatcher with his sled and attempted to run away.
Back at Xanadu, Kane’s belongings are cataloged or discarded by the staff. They find the sled on which eight-year-old Kane was playing on the day that he was taken from his home in Colorado and throw it into a furnace with other items. Behind their backs, the sled slowly burns and its trade name, printed on top, becomes visible through the flames: “Rosebud”.
In 1951, when the famed Brennan restaurant operation consisted only of Brennan’s Vieux Carre on Bourbon Street, Owen Brennan asked his sister Ella and his head chef to come up with a new dessert for a dinner that night honoring Richard Foster and his recent appointment as chairman of the New Orleans Crime Commission. With New Orleans acting as the major port of entry for bananas shipped from Central and South America in the 1950s, it was only natural that they gravitated toward a banana-forward dessert. Sliced bananas were sautéed with butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon and then flambéed with rum and banana liqueur tableside, all served alongside a heaping scoop of vanilla ice cream.
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