Fred Kaplan takes time out from explaining U.S. military policy to us to rave about the new Blu-ray edition of Citizen Kane. I said earlier that I hadn't upgraded to Blu-ray because (a) I have so many regular DVDs I haven't watched yet and (b) I figure that when I finally do invest in Blu-ray, that's when they'll come up with something better. But Fred's review almost makes me want to chance it.
Yesterday, I directed a voice session for The Garfield Show and one of our actors was the brilliant Maurice LaMarche, who was rewarded last Saturday for his brilliance with one of those Emmy things you hear about. One of the voices he did on our show was his uncanny Orson Welles impression which you heard coming out of the face of Vincent D'Onofrio in Ed Wood and from The Brain on the series, Pinky & The Brain. We were lamenting that an entire generation or two is going to someday see Citizen Kane and say, "Hey, that guy sounds a lot like that mouse on the cartoon show!"