A moment of perspective.

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From a CNN article on Orson Welles and his last role as the Transformer "Unicron":

Back in 1986, though, [the concept of celebrity cartoon voices] wasn't the payday it is now. "Transformers: The Movie" yielded less than $6 million at the box office. The new live-action "Transformers," which opens in theaters July 3, hopes to reap that in a matter of hours.

Wrap a few grey matter cells around that one, and then go get a beverage.

Comments

[pecosy.livejournal.com]

I can't get over the last of the "Story Highlights" for this article:

• Biographer says Welles still man who made "Citizen Kane"

I'm going to need to see some sources that back up this claim.

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(read it again)

I know what the biographer meant by that ("he's still the genius who made Kane even if he's a bit more corpulent and word-slurry") but there had been some controversy over who actually wrote the screenplay. Herman Mankiewicz is traditionally considered the one who wrote the bulk of the screenplay, consulting with Welles on it, but in later years Orson would make various claims that he wrote the whole durn thing himself.

Welles had a tendency in later years to accidentally on purpose fudge facts around so that stories of his past sounded better. For example, in various interviews from the 1960s until his death, he'd alternately admit or deny that he deliberately planned his War of the Worlds radio broadcast as a hoax. Depended on who was interviewing him, his mood, and how he thought history should have been portrayed at that point, I guess.