Maybe that's why, to get any press at all (the interns under 20 probably are in charge of what gets printed), Johnny Depp was called in to pose with Sir Christopher Lee (here, referred to only as Christopher Lee.)
Johnny Depp (his name sounds like a toilet bowl cleaner) is of course THE greatest actor of our time, because he appears in fantasy movies that the Comic Con crowd goes to see. He stays away from anything that doesn't involve costumes, white-face, gore, or eye-liner.
Christopher Lee? He's pretty much being honored only for Comic Con shit as well. Oooh, right, right, Lee was a Bond villain, he was in all that Tolkien crap..."Lord of the Rings," ooh yeah, and "Star Wars" crap, too...Also fortunately for him, he has little cults for his crazy singing to heavy metal music, "Horror Hotel," and the various Hammer horror films...being the only major star since Bela Lugosi to play both Dracula and the Frankenstein monster (and Bela was barely in the movie; a stunt double was used much of the time). "Fans" of Christopher Lee probably never even heard of the movie he's proudest of, "Jinnah," or know much about him, including his World War II service, or that be later worked at the Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects, tracking down Nazi war criminals (being fluent in German helped).
Nevermind. Guys like this are humble, grateful to be recognized and working, and in Lee's case, certainly mindful of what happened to previous horror stars like Boris Karloff (never given an award and stuck in Grade D movies in Mexico when he died) and Vincent Price (never taken seriously as an actor and rarely making anything but cheap horror flicks in his last 20 years).
It's just a little disgusting that Lee's award wouldn't even have gotten any coverage without Depp standing alongside him. But it could've been worse...Kardashian in a thong, or Miley twerking in his lap. Mr. Lee would not have been amused.
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