Posted
5:06 PM
by Gene
I remember Crazy Guggenheim too. (Although Larry Miller spoils the effect with that enduring news-hack cliche "innocence": a nation that went through two wars and a depression in three decades, that had already fought the Cold War for another two, probably didn't have much innocence left.) I remember the entertainers who knotted America together by the sheer force of their talent. Alas, Jackie Gleason and Frank Fontaine are clinking glassses in that great bar in the sky -- replaced by people like
The Weekly Standard's proprietor RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and FX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (That rather spoils the effect too.)