Imagined Conversations: Nic Cage Edition
I’m sure you were as shocked as I was to learn that actor Nicolas Cage is facing bankruptcy. You probably thought, “Really? After being overpaid for so many years?” Apparently, Nic never learned the value of a dollar. Sometimes I feel badly for people who make stupid money mistakes… we’re all human, after all, and everyone makes poor choices at some point in their lives. BUT, come on, $276,000 for a dinosaur skull? This is the exact point on my Nic Cage Compassion Graph where my level of empathy drops to a point that hovers just above the X-axis and is labeled “bitter disbelief.”
I wonder about the sequence of events that led us here, to the point where Nic is selling off German castles and hot rods left and right and is suing his business manager, Sam Levin. Cage claims that Levin led him down a path to financial ruin. Whatever the case maybe be, if you’re a fan of Cage, this ensures you many more years of enjoying new films from him, as he now has to keep working in order to be able to retire to an appropriately appointed mansion with waterfalls, telescopes and an airstrip. Nic Cage – he’s just like us!
Because you’re wondering – as am I – how one decides to build a UFO/big-silver-helium-filled balloon and create a “media hoax” that will win one a “reality” TV show.