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Fametracker Regrets: Corrections From Our Archives

Fametracker has long been your source for celebrity analysis and assessment. It's a responsibility we relish and take very seriously.

And while we work very diligently to make judgments that will endure throughout the years, we occasionally look back and notice how wrong we've been. Though these occasions are few and far between, given the breadth of content we've produced, they do occur. Here are some statements that, on subsequent reflection, maybe aren't as right as we'd like:

"Sure, right now most people know him primarily as Andrew 'Squiggy' Squiggmann. But mark these words: David L. Lander, you are the Hey! It's That Guy! graduate of 1979." -- Rasco P. Soultrain Hey! It's That Guy! Graduate, 1980

"The perfect symbol of Arnold Schwarzenegger's special strain of evil in the world is his obscenely gigantic 'car,' the Hummer -- a monstrosity so grotesque that no private citizen but he will ever, ever own one or drive it outside of either a disputed military zone, or Los Angeles." -- Arnold Schwarzenegger's Fame Audit, 1996

"Advantage: Eden, for -- by brazenly exposing her midriff in every episode -- pushing the envelope of TV decency as far as it is likely to go in the life of the medium." -- Battle of the Seductive TV Sorceresses (Elizabeth Montgomery vs. Barbara Eden), 1965

"While we may celebrate his work today, we doth predict that history shall ne'er recall the name of Pliny the Elder." -- Pliny the Elder's Fame Audit, 79 A.D.

"Despite his early successes, Cat People has officially killed Jerry Bruckheimer's career good and dead." -- The Rasco P. Soultrain Award for Newgoer of the Year, 1982

"Hi, I'm Rick Astley, the new king of pop." -- Galaxy of Fame, 1987

"Good day. I am Herr Wolfgang A. Mozart, dilettante pretender to Antonio Salieri's crown. Do not trouble thyself to commit my name to your memory, for it shall not endure even unto a fortnight hence." -- Galaxy of Fame, 1777

"Assets: Well, certainly not Heaven's Gate, but everyone in Hollywood is allowed one bomb, right?" -- Michael Cimino's Fame Audit, 1980.

"Perhaps we can look forward to catchy follow-ups to 'Creep' from Radiohead, such as 'Creeped,' 'Crept,' and 'Crap.'" -- Blue Moons: "No-More-Hit-Wonders," 1992

"Advantage: Too close to call; they're both so wholesome and clean-cut that it's impossible to guess which of them will go further." -- Battle of the Strawberry Blonde Teen Queens (Dana Plato vs. Tatum O'Neal), 1980

It has come to our attention that it takes more for a performer to be "the next Audrey Hepburn" than dark hair, fair skin, and a skinny figure. Therefore, we would like to retract our assessment that any of the following is the next Audrey Hepburn: Natalie Portman; Ali MacGraw; Jennifer Love Hewitt; Connie Sellecca; Sela Ward; Susan Saint James; Hallie Kate Eisenberg; and Cillian Murphy.

"Now that he's kicked cocaine, his writing can only improve; now he won't have to fall back on all the 'listen to your old pal, Sonny Jim and Sally Jane' tics that currently fill out his work like breadcrumbs in meatloaf." Stephen King's Fame Audit, 1988

"It is most certain that Amenmesses will be remembered as the greatest of all the pharoahs, his artifacts touring the great nations of the earth and his legacy celebrated in song." -- Blue Moons: "Pharoah Weather Friends," 1201 B.C.

"Looking for a band that's better than the Beatles? Well, Jesus Jones is 'right here, right now.'" -- Jesus Jones's Fame Audit, 1991

"Sorry Charles, but there's another writer who beats the 'Dickens' out of you, and that's Edward Bellamy." -- Battle of the Sociologically Minded Scribblers, 1886

"Hollywood, hail your new queen of the A-list: Brigitte Nielsen!" -- The Rasco P. Soultrain Award for Famous Person of the Year, 1985

"Hi, I'm Richard Carpenter. Sure, I'm sad about my sister's death, but just because our partnership is over doesn't mean my career as a musician is." -- Galaxy of Fame, 1984

"Advantage: Richard Benjamin." -- Battle of the Swarthy Jewish Sexpots (Richard Benjamin vs. Elliott Gould), 1973

"Lisa Bonet has made a terrible match, fame-wise, and will come to regret lowering her own fame worth by marrying so far below her caste instead of someone with long-term prospects as a celebrity, like Morris Day." -- Blue Moons: When Stars Mate, Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz, 1987

"Well, that's the last we'll hear of Jesus." -- Jesus's Fame Audit, 33 A.D.

- MFF & WC