Orson Welles's ashes finally arrived at their final resting place Thursday -- under a tree in southern Spain -- and there was a touch of 'Citizen Kane' irony about the burial. The ashes were buried on what would have been Welles' 72nd birthday at the ranch of his friend, bullfighter Antonio Ordonez, near Ronda.
Newspaper magnate Willian Randolph Hearst, who Welles portrayed in 'Citizen Kane,' once tried unsucessfully to buy the Ronda cathedral and later copied its facade for his San Simeon, Calif., castle. 'This is what he desired,' said Welles's daughter, Beatrice, after the ashes were placed into a dry well and covered with dirt and sand from a bullfighting ring. 'The sand is in memory of Welles's love of the bullfight,' Ordonez said. 'He was a great, great friend.' After the ceremony, Beatrice and her fiancee, Christopher Smith, drove to Seville where they will be married Friday as Ordonez gives away the bride. Then Beatrice has one more chore -- take the ashes of Paola Mori, her mother and Welles' third and final wife, to be buried in Rome.
