The Once-in-a-While
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1 Facebook is a high school yearbook that talks to you.
2 Did you survive Halloween?
3 I traditionally love Halloween, often more than I do other holidays.
4 I did notice one thing this Halloween: what this world needs is a bazillion more zombie movies.
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6 Remember when people used to say, "Not!"
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8 <crickets>
9 Yeah.
10 Me neither.
11 What we REALLY need are movies set in Victorian England, movies where Victorian people become zombies. Not enough of those.
12 Actually, the WORST movie I saw all weekend was on Saturday night. It was on TCM. It was called The World's Greatest Sinner. Here is the TCM capsule:
A bored insurance salesman quits his job and starts preaching that his followers can become gods with eternal life and then he runs for President.
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14 I had no idea what it was about besides that. I do know that the guy had thick, dark hair and what looked like a goatee fastened by masking tape.
Listen:
The World's Greatest Sinner had music that if you were hungover, you'd want to throw a rock through your teevee screen. Here are some old advertisements from 1962:
Listen:
The World's Greatest Sinner had music that if you were hungover, you'd want to throw a rock through your teevee screen. Here are some old advertisements from 1962:
15 I took the liberty of looking this little jewel up on the Source-That-Nobody-Wants-to-Use-But-That-Everybody-Uses Wiki.
16 This is ALWAYS dangerous, because all the fonts jump this way and that, and my piece usually turns crazy.
17 But this you gotta see. It was filmed in 1962 and features
music by a young Frank Zappa, who called it "...the world's worst movie." Hmm. There HAS to be one, right? And Zappa called it that...and yet...
Hmm. Didn't I just say, "It had music that if you were hungover, you'd want to throw a rock through your teevee screen."?
18 When I wrote that, I hadn't even seen the Wiki article yet.
19 Anyway, without any more hesitation, allow me to bring this right into your living room. Here's Wiki:
The World's Greatest Sinner is a 1962 film written, directed, produced by, and starring Timothy Carey.[1][2]The self-financed film tells the story of a frustrated insurance salesman, Clarence Hilliard (played by Carey), who quits his job because he finds it meaningless. After witnessing an ecstatic crowd at a rock concert, Hilliard forms a band. Finding that he can whip crowds into a frenzy with his wildly unhinged rockabilly performances, Hilliard proceeds to churn his fan base into a political party, and eventually into a religious cult based on Hilliard's assertion that every man is a god. Clarence finances the cult by seducing elderly widows out of their life savings (the film features sequences of Carey making love to elderly women, as well as a 14-year old girl).
The more powerful Hilliard becomes, the more egomania-
cal and detached from reality he grows, eventually insisting upon being called God with a capital "G" (literally--God Hilliard"). His followers worship him. Eventually he challenges the God of the Bible to prove that Hilliard himself is not the true Almighty. God obliges him.
The film is narrated by voice actor Paul Frees.
The World's Greatest Sinner never had an official release, though it aired on Turner Classic Movies cable network. Director Martin Scorsese is one of the film's supporters, having named it as one of his favorite rock and roll films. Musician Will Oldham has also championed the film, and selected it when invited to present a favorite film at the 2001 Maryland Film Festival.
The film features a score composed by a young, pre-Mothers of Invention Frank Zappa. During a 1963 appearance on the Steve Allen TV show during which he generated musical sounds on bicycles, Zappa talked about scoring the soundtrack for The World's Greatest Sinner, which he called "the world's worst movie," even though the general public wouldn't have the opportunity to see the film he was talking about for another 50 years.[3] During the course of the same interview with Steve Allen, Zappa discusses how he recorded the soundtrack movie in the Little Theatre, located at Chaffey College in Alta Loma, California, along with the plethora of instruments used.
References
1. The World's Greatest Sinner
retrieved from https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/worlds_greatest_sinner/
2. Stafford, Jeff (September 20, 2008). "God Hilliard for President!".
retrieved from http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/09/20/god-hilliard-for-president/
3. Frank Zappa on the Steve Allen Show, March 4, 1963
retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MewcnFl_6Y
The World's Greatest Sinner is a 1962 film written, directed, produced by, and starring Timothy Carey.[1][2]The self-financed film tells the story of a frustrated insurance salesman, Clarence Hilliard (played by Carey), who quits his job because he finds it meaningless. After witnessing an ecstatic crowd at a rock concert, Hilliard forms a band. Finding that he can whip crowds into a frenzy with his wildly unhinged rockabilly performances, Hilliard proceeds to churn his fan base into a political party, and eventually into a religious cult based on Hilliard's assertion that every man is a god. Clarence finances the cult by seducing elderly widows out of their life savings (the film features sequences of Carey making love to elderly women, as well as a 14-year old girl).
The more powerful Hilliard becomes, the more egomania-
cal and detached from reality he grows, eventually insisting upon being called God with a capital "G" (literally--God Hilliard"). His followers worship him. Eventually he challenges the God of the Bible to prove that Hilliard himself is not the true Almighty. God obliges him.
The film is narrated by voice actor Paul Frees.
The World's Greatest Sinner never had an official release, though it aired on Turner Classic Movies cable network. Director Martin Scorsese is one of the film's supporters, having named it as one of his favorite rock and roll films. Musician Will Oldham has also championed the film, and selected it when invited to present a favorite film at the 2001 Maryland Film Festival.
The film features a score composed by a young, pre-Mothers of Invention Frank Zappa. During a 1963 appearance on the Steve Allen TV show during which he generated musical sounds on bicycles, Zappa talked about scoring the soundtrack for The World's Greatest Sinner, which he called "the world's worst movie," even though the general public wouldn't have the opportunity to see the film he was talking about for another 50 years.[3] During the course of the same interview with Steve Allen, Zappa discusses how he recorded the soundtrack movie in the Little Theatre, located at Chaffey College in Alta Loma, California, along with the plethora of instruments used.
References
1. The World's Greatest Sinner
retrieved from https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/worlds_greatest_sinner/
2. Stafford, Jeff (September 20, 2008). "God Hilliard for President!".
retrieved from http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/09/20/god-hilliard-for-president/
3. Frank Zappa on the Steve Allen Show, March 4, 1963
retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MewcnFl_6Y
20 And there you have it. A little history can be a dangerous thing. Frank Zappa. Fancy that. Scruffy citations, but I wanted to make them as close to how Wiki had them as possible.
21 I also discovered all of this AS I was writing and researching the past couple days. Oh, and taking care of li'l Beebeez. Hope any teachers out there are taking all of this with a grain, yet dutifully askance. I could ask no less.
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23 Should we see if we could link up Zappa with Steve Allen? Let's have a look. Hit the link, not the picture. Be sure you can navigate back here. I have no idea how to do that, except perhaps by hitting a "back" arrow. That's on you, for now. I'll work on getting better at this. I'm looking to April or May of 2019.
Wait for it. = ) <-----cheap sideways smiley guy.
Wait for it. = ) <-----cheap sideways smiley guy.
Here go:
Hit the link below.
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27 Did it work?
28 Well???
29 I have no way of knowing. Too much stuff going on here. Who woulda thunk?
30 God Hilliard. Imagine electing that guy as President.
31 I'm glad WE'RE not that stupid.
32 I loves me some 'Murica.
33 Let's hear it for TCM bringing us the worst movie ever made.
34 I don't even know if I could import that movie to this site. You can ruin your own computer. Mines is now sacrosanct.
35 Mines.
36 Why do people SAY that?
37 "Mines is better than yours!"
38 Moving On, Part One: Moving on, Part One was all set up before God Hilliard started throwing my references and citations all over the cloth.
39 The good news there is that there really IS not a Moving On, Part One. Remember, sometimes I'm "in the moment."
I hate cliches. I don't have the know-how to put a dash over random letters. So I can't even emphasize my disdain for cliches.
40 And besides, I got corn to plow, people to see, and places to go.
41 "And now Trump talks about groping women without their consent."
---Commercial for Michael Eggman
42 Remember when these were the eggmen?
43 TMZ has reporters annihilating the language, and it gives me the shakies. If you remember the real DN, you might remember that I always wrote it with the teevee blasting in the background.
44 I get a pulse on how far idiocy has traveled in the past ten years.
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46 Sometimes when I gets the shakies, I drift off into space.
47 Sometimes it is a pleasant ride.
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50 Sometimes it scares me.
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52 And sometimes...
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54 I gottago.
55 See you again.
56 Live life.
57 Love life.
58 Peace.
I hate cliches. I don't have the know-how to put a dash over random letters. So I can't even emphasize my disdain for cliches.
40 And besides, I got corn to plow, people to see, and places to go.
41 "And now Trump talks about groping women without their consent."
---Commercial for Michael Eggman
42 Remember when these were the eggmen?
44 I get a pulse on how far idiocy has traveled in the past ten years.
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46 Sometimes when I gets the shakies, I drift off into space.
47 Sometimes it is a pleasant ride.
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50 Sometimes it scares me.
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52 And sometimes...
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54 I gottago.
55 See you again.
56 Live life.
57 Love life.
58 Peace.
~H~
fin.
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