It's on tonight…and I really hope I haven't oversold this thing and that none of you feel any obligation to sit through it. Skidoo is the movie of which Jackie Gleason, its star, once said: "The picture turned out to be the greatest meatball that was ever made!" He did not mean that as a compliment even though he probably loved meatballs.
John M. Miller reminds me that they have a lot of info and downloads of Skidoo over at the Turner Classic Movies website. Here's the link…but if you haven't seen the film, I'd suggest going there after your first viewing. You'll enjoy it ever so much more if you don't know what's coming…and yes, I'm using the word "enjoy" in the broadest sense.
Years ago, I was going to write a book called something like Fascinating Movies, and my definition was not that they were necessarily good or bad. It would have contained some of each…a concept which seemed to baffle a company that thought they wanted to publish it but couldn't grasp that I wouldn't just be writing about movies that were fun to watch because they were such utter disasters. I think some films just transcend being thought of as good or bad. The sheer fact that they were made and that they exist is far more significant than whether you can have a good time watching them or why you might enjoy the ones in the Hindenburg category. In some upcoming post, I'll try to list some of the ones I'd cover if I were writing that book today. In the meantime, here's our last posting of the banner for perhaps the most transcendent of them all…
