Richard Foreman
Joanna Lumley, Kirsten Dunst and Jennifer Tilly in The Cat's Meow
Plaza Frontenac
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As for Bogdanovich's boyhood inspiration and early career mentor, Orson Welles, the tragic story of how the "evil wizard" reduced that boy wonder's career to a shambles in the years after Citizen Kane is one Bogdanovich can relate in minute detail. The irony of Bogdanovich's taking his own shot at William Randolph Hearst in 2002 is almost too rich to digest. Little wonder that this entertaining but ineffably sad rehash of the old Hollywood excesses and the ancient corruptions of power ends with the ancient pop tune "After You've Gone" warbling away on the track. It sounds less like vengeance than sorrow.