"I'm ready for my close up Mr. Demille."

This NYT story about UBL, pathetic and malignant narcissist, reminded me of the great movie Sunset Blvd.

Videos seized from Bin Laden’s compound and released by the Obama administration on Saturday showed him wrapped in an old blanket watching himself on TV, like an aging actor imagining a comeback. A senior intelligence official said other videos showed him practicing and flubbing his lines in front of a camera. He was interested enough in his image, the official said, to dye his white beard black for the recordings.