Dance Like Your Country is Going to Hell in a Handbasket

J6 committee: THEY BOTH REACHED FOR THE GUN!

@¡Andrew!: God, I love that scene. And here I can see the whole GOP on strings.

Many years ago I took a friend on a date to the Flamingo Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas (my hometown).
Benny Siegel’s place had been taken over by a gang of Roaring 20s gangsters (An LA performance co-op) led by Jack Nance (Henry from Eraserhead, etc.); who greeted us at the door with a Tommy Gun.
The main showroom had a Review show hosted by Shields & Yarnell (unheard of then) and featuring Mean Gene The Dancing Machine (also unheard of then).
It was a lot of fun.
A year later, Shields & Yarnell had a network show & Mean Gene was a regular on various hidden camera shows, where he would spontaneously begin to tap dance. And Jack Nance was starting his David Lynch career.

@nojo: I kept hearing that tune when the headlines blared HE TRIED TO GRAB THE WHEEL

Keryiiist could this country get any more stupid. Like a crack ho that just found a sidewalk twenty, we just keep rolling around in the gutter and never hit rock bottom.

@jaycubed: I like how in Coppola’s The Conversation you can spot pre-network Shields miming in a San Francisco square where pre-Han Harrison Ford is doing a scene.

Oh dear god in heaven. No. Read Epictetus, or watch these nice people who can do many stuff.

https://youtu.be/E1tOV7y94DY