"This whole country's just like my flock of sheep....They think like I do. Only they're even more stupid than I am, so I gotta think for 'em."
Prescient look at the artifice and utter cynicism of mid-century celebrity culture. Like The King of Comedy, its observations are as true today as ever. Andy Griffith gives one of cinema’s truly great performances as Lonesome Rhodes, whose character arc is as epic as it is tragic.
Unfortunately, when the jig is up after being caught on a hot mic, recent realities tell us that for some personality cults, nothing is disqualifying.
