But this guy didn't look much like a hip-hop star: "Citizen Kane"

What's that? It's "Kanye?" Oh ... my bad.

Perhaps you've heard of this film, often perched at or near the top of most "Best Films of All Time" lists. I know I've seen this once before, maybe in a college film class. But that, sadly, was a long time ago -- ahhh, college -- and when the movie came calling via TCM, it seemed time to give Orson Welles' masterpiece another shot.

Our story: The death of an insanely rich man who ran a newspaper empire and built his own personal Camelot triggers a search for what really made him tick. The key, news outlets think, is figuring out what his last word meant. That word, we all know, was "Rosebud." Cue the smashed snow globe.

Welles plays Charles Foster Kane through the years, and has generally been hailed as a genius for how he, at the tender age of 25, directed "Citizen Kane." It's kind of hard to tell today, but the overview at the start, the use of flashbacks, the camera angles ... all that apparently was new-age stuff in 1941. And never mind the basic story, which tracks the rise of a young man who stumbles into money and becomes the stuff presidents are made of, only to come crashing down and find himself alone. Oh, the tragedy.

I kid, of course. "Kane" remains impressive on many levels, and is worth seeing if only to appreciate Welles' skill as a director and his portrayal of an egomanic over multiple decades. It's also nice how things come full circle in a couple of ways, including that whole "Rosebud" business.

Does that make it the (trumpets, please) BEST MOVIE EVER MADE? Eh, not for me. I'd probably go with "The Godfather." Among the older movies, "Casablanca," while dated, might sneak past "Kane," especially when it comes to repeat viewings. What I'm really waiting for, however, is the AFI to get their sh*t together and finally give "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo" the props it so richly deserves. I mean, it's not like Orson Welles can pull off a radical headspin.