When I was a little girl, I wanted to be Orson Welles. I could never figure it out – is Orson Welles a boy haunted by manhood, or a man haunted by boyhood? Star Trek is a series of television programs about mostly-gay-now sea captains who respect their ex-girlfriends and want to watch aliens do Shakespeare and Orson Welles should have been on it at least once. Not as Riker, mind you; anyone who suggests Orson as Riker is an enemy of mine. I’m perfectly aware Jonathan Frakes has something of the Orsonian carriage, the Orsonian delivery, and I mark it, but Orson Welles is not a
“When I was a little girl, I wanted to be Orson Welles.”
A perfect, polished jewel of a sentence.
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH AND I LOVE HARRY MUDD perfection. Also sometimes I just watch Welles' champagne commercial outtakes, it soothes me
Damn it. I was happy with the Harry Mudd we have until I read this.