Comeuppance

Jan Hoffman blew it. In this article, he or she refers to Orson Welles's 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons as one of his "late classics", alongside Touch of Evil (1958) and Chimes at Midnight (1965).

What? "Classic", yes, but it was, in fact, the opposite of "late". It was "early". It was, indeed, the second feature he had ever made (although the first of many he watched others hack the shit out of, partially due to his tendency to mentally abandon projects after a certain period of time).

The moral, Senor/a Hoffman, is to not fuck with Welles fans. If you do, we will tepidly and politely castigate you on our unread weblogs.