5:45 PM -- A Face in the Crowd (1957) just ending, facsimile of trmp.

[elleng]

2h 6m | Drama | TV-PG
A female television executive turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa

In the "Making of" documentary on the 2005 DVD release of the film, Andy Griffith says that the inspiration for the way that Marcia reveals Rhodes' hypocrisy (by broadcasting his true feelings about his audience after he believes the sound has been cut off) came from the famed "Uncle Don incident", in which "Uncle" Don Carney, a longtime children's radio host, was supposed to have been broadcast saying, "There, that oughta hold the little bastards" into a live microphone after he thought it had already been turned off. Griffith recounted this story as fact, even though it is believed by most broadcasting historians to be nothing more than a widespread and very popular urban legend.

TCM

[jaysunb]

1. I got chills. NT

[Walleye]

2. Great movie. Narcissism is timeless

[Elwood P Dowd]

3. We need another Patricia Neal moment.

[mucifer]

4. trump is constantly being exposed. They are a cult.

[First Speaker]

5. If this happened today in real life...

...Rhodes' dupes wouldn't be fazed in the slightest. It never "really" happened. It's all a liberal media plot. Fox News would be on 24/7, saying how this is a hoax. And even if they privately believed it, it *still* wouldn't faze them. He was just "owning the Libs". They'd admire him for his sheer amorality, because this is the way *they* would behave in his place. In 1957, people still believed in shame, and education, and good and evil. That's all for suckers...