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    The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution https://archive.org/details/the-black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revoluti… Directed by Stanley Nelson Produced by Laurens Grant, Stanley Nelson Edited by Aljernon Tunsil Change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored—cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change. THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION is the first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails. Master documentarian Stanley Nelson goes straight to the source, weaving a treasure trove of rare archival footage with the voices of the people who were there: police, FBI informants, journalists, white supporters and detractors, and Black Panthers who remained loyal to the party and those who left it. Featuring Kathleen Cleaver, Jamal Joseph, and many others, THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION is an essential history and a vibrant chronicle of this pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America.
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    Freedom Summer Directed by Stanley Nelson Screenwriter: Stanley Nelson Producers: Stanley Nelson, Cyndee Readdean Edited by Aljernon Tunsil Over ten memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in an historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in Mississippi, the nation’s most segregated state. The summer was marked by sustained and deadly violence, including the notorious murders of three civil rights workers, countless beatings, the burning of thirty-five churches, and the bombing of seventy homes and community centers. In the face of this violence, these organizers, volunteers, and Mississippians worked together to canvass for voter registration, create Freedom Schools, and establish an alternative challenge to the State Democratic Party — the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Borne of Freedom Summer, and in response to the challenges of registering voters directly within hostile Mississippi, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party registered its own voters outside of the discriminatory system, ultimately sending a delegation of 68 members to attend the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City to confront and unseat the all-white delegation. FREEDOM SUMMER highlights an overlooked, but essential element of the Civil Rights Movement: the patient and long-term efforts by both outside activists and local citizens in Mississippi to organize communities and register black voters — even in the face of intimidation, physical violence and death. The Freedom Summer story reminds us that the movement that ended segregation was far more complex than most of us know.
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    A related documentary, "Heartbreak Ridge", tells the compelling story of Clint Eastwood's little known parallel 30-year career as a Gunny Sergeant, under whose gruffly stern (sternly gruff? bear stearns?), but loving, tutelage Mario Van Peebles - following washout from acting and modeling jobs - comes of age against the high drama of the D-Day-like Grenada invasion. I wish Hollywood would make movies half this exciting! Of course, "Heartbreak" is filmed without concern for the geopolitical, socioeconomic, or cultural nuances that are likely addressed by "The Future...". But all that stuff is probably fake liberal news anyway./peace,K
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    Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us https://vimeo.com/113974019 Camera / Editing: John Douglas Direction / Script: Carmen Ashhurst, John Douglas, Samori Marksman Narrator: Vinie Burroughs On 13 March 1979, while Eric Gairy was out of Grenada, "the real revolutionaries" of the New Jewel Movement (NJM) under the leadership of Comrade Maurice Bishop masterminded "a successful armed takeover of the True Blue army barracks and the island's sole radio station." On that day, the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada (PRG) was born. Complete just months prior to the fall 1983 U.S. invasion, this documentary examines the aims and accomplishments of the New Jewel Movement led by Maurice Bishop and the reasons for the American military action. The filming was completed shortly before the tragedies of October 1983 in this colorful work produced by the Caribbean Research Institute. John Douglas produced, filmed and edited the full-color work, and was co-directed by Carmen Ashurst and Samori Marksman and Douglas. Vinie Burroughs is the narrator of this 55-minute film. The film is listed as a documentary on the Grenadian Revolution, traces Grenada’s early history, analyzes the impact of European colonialism and explain the evolution of modern Grenadian society. Much footage of Grenadians - [the executed] Maurice Bishop, Caldwell Taylor, Dessima Williams, Valerie Cornwall, Candia Alleyne, Bernard Coard, Phyllis Coard, [the murdered] Fitzroy Bain, George Nurse, Brian Beggs, Claudette Pitt, [the late] Dorcas Braveboy, among others. The film is distributed by Cinema Guild.
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    Blind Eye Sees All Gibby Haynes - vocals, saxophone, guitar, bass Paul Leary - guitar, vocals, bass King Coffey - drums Teresa Nervosa - drums Trevor Malcolm - bass, sousaphone
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    Wattstax Directed by Mel Stuart Starring: The Dramatics, The Staple Singers, Kim Weston, Jimmy Jones, Rance Allen Group, The Emotions, William Bell, Louise McCord, Debra Manning, Eric Mercury, Freddy Robinson, Lee Sain, Ernie Hines, Little Sonny, Newcomers, Eddie Floyd, Temprees, Frederick Knight, Bar Kays, Albert King, Little Milton, Johnnie Taylor, Mel & Tim, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Luther Ingram, Issac Hayes, Richard Pryor, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the black people who made themselves heard.
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    Lilja 4-ever Directed by Lukas Moodysson Written by Lukas Moodysson Starring: Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharsky
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    Threads Directed by Mick Jackson Written by Barry Hines Starring: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierley, Rita May, Henry Moxon, June Broughton, Harry Beety
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    Onibaba Directed by Kaneto Shindo Written by Kaneto Shindo Starring: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satō
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    The Birthday Party Directed by William Friedkin Written by Harold Pinter Starring: Robert Shaw, Dandy Nichols, Patrick Magee, Sydney Tafler, Moultrie Kelsall, Helen Fraser
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"Lot's of people go to college for seven years...""Yeah, they're called 'Doctors'!" Evil Doctors? ; - ) "All energy flows according to the whims of the Great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him."
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Grate movie!! That's gonna leave a mark!! LOL!!
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Good flick, if you like Wes Anderson's style of movies (Rushmore, The Life Aquatic, etc.)! I laughed 'cause the journey reminded me of The Golden Road with The Grateful Dead and (recently) Bonnaroo (~) ; - ) "The characters are all... Thanks."
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Brilliant! The Coen Brothers have made another masterpiece! "Since you've all been such good boys and girls, I would like to take everybody in this entire audience out for milk and cookies. There are buses outside. Everybody follow me."
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Great movie! Recent posts and issues have me thinking about that movie. Rufus - "He (God) still digs humanity, but it bothers Him to see the shit that gets carried out in His name - wars, bigotry, televangelism. But especially the factioning of all the religions. He said humanity took a good idea and, like always, built a belief structure on it." "Since you've all been such good boys and girls, I would like to take everybody in this entire audience out for milk and cookies. There are buses outside. Everybody follow me."
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Dogma is one of my all time faves. The most recent one I love is August Rush. Keep on rockin in the free world
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; - ) "Since you've all been such good boys and girls, I would like to take everybody in this entire audience out for milk and cookies. There are buses outside. Everybody follow me."
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Into the Wildwith Emile Hirsch.. Directed by Sean Penn A college graduate leaves his life behind and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
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I mentioned it here a while back.. I don't go to the big theaters much, but this one was awesome on the big screen. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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Hal recommended this to me and I liked it very much. Grate sound track, too. "You know what the trouble about real life is? There's no danger music."
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With Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale...Two women are arrested for smuggling while vacationing in Thailand.Not a bad flick, but Midnight Express (1978) was better!!
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scary shit there mom. another one was Bangkok Hilton, about a brother and sister. lots of books out too, written by people who were / are inside for smuggling. don't do the crime if you can't do the time. BIG warnings printed in RED on the Malaysian arrival/departure cards, that drug traffickers will be sentenced to death. they also announce that on the plane before you land. Thailand has similar punishments for traffickers. but yeah, Midnight Express is the best among all of those films. peace
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at the mention of that movie, and i can picture him twisting his neck and the cracking sound
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I watched this movie last night on HBO for the 2nd time, I'm not a Tom Cruise fan,but he rocked this movie!
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...there will be bats! "You know what the trouble about real life is? There's no danger music."
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"Gonzo", this Saturday night (7/12/2008) @ the E Street Cinema, NW Washington, D.C. in the beating heart of the Beast itself.... if you dare. We're hedging toward the 7:20 pm show, at the moment. "I like to load up on mescaline and turn my amplifier up to 110 decibels for a taste of 'White Rabbit' while the sun comes up on the snow-peaks along"... Pennsylvania Ave. "Fear and Loathing in America - The Gonzo Letters, Volume 11, 1968 -1976", p. 235. Note that HST says, "... Continental Divide" and not Pennsylvania Ave but I think he'd share the sentiment, had he stayed in town long enough (and met me).
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*The following is for entertainment purposes only and is dedicated to and inspired by a true American hero, Hunter S Thompson (HST). This is a test of each reader's humor response system, as required by Homeland Insecurity, on an annual basis. My attorney has advised me to include this disclaimer* OK, for anyone within a day's drive and the stones to meet me face to face, I'll be reserving an entire section of the ESPN Zone, just down the street from the E Street Cinema, in the name of Raoul Duke, for around 5:30 pm. I want to take over the entire restaurant with crazed Deadheads like locusts in Egypt, if possible. I want to remind the current status quo, in that God forsaken city, what they're up against if they keep fucking with us. Selah! If The Man is out there reading this, along with your bullshit "new" surveillance law, I'll just let you know that I'll be loaded down with all types of contraband so I would advise bringing everything at your disposal and prepare for an ugly scene reminiscent of the town when it was taken over by drug addled hippies during the Viet Nam crisis. Mace, dogs, tasers, those tear gas guns used to kill Salazar, fuck man, whatever you can get your hands on will be needed to subdue me and my attorney by the time the hor d'oeuvres get to the table. Fair warning...
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The Trips Festival Film Screening This Saturday: August 16th 7:30pm Sanchez Concert Hall 1220 Linda Mar blvd. 650-355-8000 advance tix www.pct26.com $12 general admission Film Night Pacifica is here again. On Saturday, August 16th please join us at The Sanchez Concert Hall. On this evening we'll be enjoying some truly Magical films witha 1960's theme. Learn about our region and the birth of the "hippie" generation as well as many other facts that have impacted our community and the world. Celebrate with PCT as we bring history and a look back at history Saturday, August 16th. Start time 7:30pm SHARP! Advance tickets at 650-355-8000 Background: What's The "Trips Fest"? from Charles Perry's A History of the Haight-Ashbury On new Year's Eve 1965, Stewart Brand and some associates staged a parade down Montgomery Street, the heart of San Francisco's financial district. The real reason for the parade was to get a little press attention for an event three weeks in the future, a sort of circus that would gather together the Acid Test, the Open Theater, Tape Music Center activities, rock bands, light shows and everything else the organizers could think of. Brand and his friends were going to use Longshoremen's Hall and have Bill Graham coordinate it. The name was straightforward: the Trips Festival. The Trips Festival was the seminal event that was the passing of the baton from the beatnicks to the hippies. It also was the coming out party for Bill Graham, the father of modern concert promotions as we know them. Before graham's experiment at the Trips festival, the idea of lights, multi-media and other "mood inducing" production elements in live music was pretty much unheard of. Many aspects of concert promotion and pop culture that we now take for granted were breakthroughs at the Trips.Festival. Many acts whom we now regard as part of Rock & Roll royalty were also discovered at The Trips Festival; acts like Jefferson Air-Plane (today known as star-ship) and The Grateful Dead. In Fact, one of Pacifica's own, Steve Brown, worked for the Grateful Dead and contributed in the making of the film. Steve will be on-hand Saturday to share rare footage and stories with us.  The film's creator will also be on hand to discuss this amazing piece of local and international history. Please join us this Saturday at 7:30pm at the Sanchez concert hall. Advance tickets can be found at PCT: 355-8000
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I want to make Rock-&-Roll movies with the AXIS Guitar reefer with calm honest merkin burger toys & Mahawkma Rentacotux the caulmn BA peeshorezz lady ~rocketzz w/ spuing corn on shakers .. I was playing my fiddle and it was smoken each note -primo¹
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Primo? You know a guy called Felipe, by any chance? or already been to the fest that marye was just writing about, on your own?********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens
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this is the movie topic. Perhaps this might have a better home in, say, the spinnin' spinnin' free topic. Thank you.
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and the book by Jon Krakauer the movie "Into The Wild" is quite a trip. Liked it as much as the book. So if you haven't seen it and are looking for a DVD to see, check it out and get the Jiffy Pop poppin.
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we rented "Shine A Light", the Rolling Stones film by Martin Scorsese. It was excellent. "Into The Wild" is still hard to even think about. I guess I've known so many who could have been that guy, including my brothers. Heck, it could have been me. The film "Salvador" which came out some years ago is an important movie and very watchable.
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not a happy ending, still thought is was good.
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saw it in Spain,and was the first time in the cinema for ages. Enjoyed it very much. Was lauging alot all by myself,cuz the Spanish guys didn't seem to understand it all. But was highly amused-no suprise though from Bros.Cohen********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens
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Though I don't agree with the violence in this movie, its by far got to be the most trippiest. Another great movie is AROUND THE FIRE, its about a kid that jumps on tour. Though it doesn't say witch tour hes on its definately a psycadelic tour. Phatmoye
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"Yes, this is Osbourne Cox, who the *fuck* are *you*?" Yeah TL, I loved "Burn After Reading" too! I just saw it for the first time last week on DVD. I especially loved that the Coens worked in some Hunter S.Thompson verbiage, "For fucksake..." on several occasions. Also, the way they capture the current sociological mythology that's gripping our society in this movie is brilliant! However small the part, I especially thought J.K. Simmons was hilarious as the C.I.A. Division Chief (or whatever his position was supposed to be). Malkovich was incredible too, as were all the other cast members (there wasn't a bad performance in this movie)! While I'm on the subject, "Tropic Thunder" was my favorite movie of the year. Robert Downey Jr. should win an Academy Award for best supporting actor over Heath Ledger for his role in "Batman". While Ledger was the best part of the latest "Batman" franchise installment and his untimely passing tragic, I still feel Downey beat him hands down in this category. Also, how "Tropic Thunder" was ignored for Best Makeup, I can't even begin to imagine! In the same sentiment, how Ben Stiller missed out on, at least being nominated for best screenplay, is yet another mystery to me concerning this movie. In addition to these complaints about singular Academy Awards for this movie (or lack thereof), I never hear anything regarding Tom Cruise turning in his best performance in years as Les Grossman in this movie, including the delivery of one of the best lines of the script! The idea that a comedy isn't legitimate commentary of the human condition, including a well developed plot, characters, theme, etc. is pure bubblegum mentality nonsense, in typical American Idol genre of misinformation, which is spoon fed to our kids *Mrs. GRTUD nudges author* ... well you get the "picture". I'll see you all over at the "Currently Listening To..." thread. "I know what dude I am. I'm the dude playin' the dude, disguised as another dude!" - Kirk Lazarus
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Very glad you agree with me! Your observations are dead on. The F.B.I.chief (or whatever)-was brilliant. His face when he found out how they took the disk to the Russians was almost worth the whole rest of the movie. "The Russians?" blank puzzled look, then shrug- "whatever". HAHAHA. Brad Pitt made me snort on several occasions. Think he was great in that dipshit role, Francis McDormand(sp) just adorable with her mission to reinvent herself;and sigh-yes Malkovich was brilliant, as ever. Agree that was no bad performance whatsoever. Whole cast were both blatantly and subtly hilarious.********************************** It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
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"No, no. God no. Burn the body. Get rid of it. We don't need those nitwits bumbling around causing problems." Photobucket
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don't let the "giggle patrol" hear ya
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bear with me cuz i haven't caught up on the last year's worth of posts, but what has become of the movie based on Jerry's life story??? i remember someone mentioned it back in '07, and hope it is still in the works. nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile
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gypsy soul. "The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees." - Erwin Schrödinger
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Dr. Tim Leary (playing himself): "You want the key. I've got the key. To the unniverse!" as he doses C&C. Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out!
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AKA TOMMY CHONGIf you haven't seen this yet, I strongly recomend you watch it. Lot of interesting things how Chong was set up for selling pipes.
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sorry lama, but turn on ,tune in , and drop out was the worst advice I ever took. At least the drop out part, I wish he said, "turn on, tune in, and takeover! Anybody seen "SuperHigh Me" yet? Truckin, like the doo dah man Once told me you got to play your hand Sometimes, the cards ain't worth a dime If you don't lay em down
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Lead us to the promised land, wild man! I want to say to my sisters & brothers - Keep the faith. When the storm grows and the wind blows, Blowin' at a steady pace. When the battle is over & the victory is won We can all shout together we have overcome! Talk to the father and the son When we make it to the promised land! (I miss you Jerry... hope you made it.)
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awsome flick...i love how his psychic awareness went up when he was stoned...how about church 420... i just don't get that california is so relaxed about marijuana laws but is still against gay marriage makes no sense..
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my all time favorite movie..i can quote almost the entire movie...it drives my wife crazy she never saw it..best pirate movie of all time... monty python rocks Mrs Yellowbeard: i am talking about mine and probably your son...the fruit of your loins Yellowbeard: are you daft women i don't have fruit in my loins lice and proud of it Yellowbeard: Wheres me map and if you say what map i'll nail your tits to the table Yellowbeard: Did beat you, kick you and smash your teeth in Dan: no Yellowbeard: than what kind of father was he ok i'll stop just go watch the movie
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the movie "Once" is a pretty little musical film with Glen Hansard and Marketa Iglova about an Irish street musician.
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I've heard a lot of good about that one. Gotta remember to rent it.
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"The Watchmen" was very, very good... thanks for the tip to my old buddy, What's His Name. Totally different than what I expected (I hated "Sin City" and was afraid I'd have to sit through another version when my son asked me to go see this movie today). Without giving too much away, this movie deals with the failed archetypes of the TV generation and how that part of human nature is part of something even larger (and very real), that has played itself out over many generations, in this version of history. Not sure about the ending though... I'll have to give that some more thought before I score this film. "The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees." - Erwin Schrödinger
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Adam Sandler should have won some kind of an award for this movie, though not an Oscar. Satire is an interesting way to peek at another culture -- in this case that of the Middle East.
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the Zohan funny! Just watched Oliver Stone's Bob Dylan movie "No Direction Home" yesterday. Lots of good music. It covers from the beginning of Dylan's career up to when he was in his motorcycle accident and stopped touring for eight years. Strike another match, go start anew And it's all over now, Baby Blue
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No catagory could quite get it's hands around this topic so I settled here... I hate Jerry Springer. A country that can produce Jerry Springer should be banned from the universe! No intelligent life there! The fact that this could be produced as an opera is mind boggling. The fact that people would plunk down bucks to go see it is even more mind boggling. I would hope people would look for more worthy causes to donate to. So we have people willing to bankroll Jerry Springer, The Opera. For people who never saw this show, here is the concept: Springer has guests who are involved in various taudy situations which they explain when they come on the show. Then Springer introduces a guest who is at the center of their affair. Then there is a fight, usually verbal but sometimes physical also, between the guests. People have actually murdered each other because of Springer. A theme for a show might be: neo-nazi tweekers who screw each other but don't consider themselves gay. You get the idea. Just when you thought we couldn't possibly deliver another sacrifice to the God of Wretched Excess we bring you: Jerry Springer The Opera!