Mickey Rooney in the sequel "" in 2009, in a scene that was deleted from the final film. On May 26, 2007, he was grand marshal at the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival. Rooney made his British pantomime debut, playing Baron Hardup in Cinderella, at the Sunderland Empire Theatre over the 2007 Christmas period, a role he reprised at Bristol Hippodrome in 2008 and at the Milton Keynes theatre in 2009. In 2011, Rooney made a brief cameo appearance in "The Muppets" and in 2014, at age 93, he reprised his role as Gus in "", with the film being dedicated in the
Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are "Die Unstillbare Gier", a song performed by the character Graf von Krolock in the rock-opera "Tanz der Vampire". Steve Barton performed the song on the 1998 Original Vienna Cast Recording. Steinman rewrote the "Tanz" version into English as "Confession of a Vampire" for the ill-fated US version ("Dance of the Vampires") of the musical starring Michael Crawford. Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" is a song composed and written by Jim Steinman, and recorded by Meat Loaf. The song was released in