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Posted Oct. 23, 2007, 5:44 p.m. ET
Skidoo on Turner Classic Movies!
By Dennis Dermody
A friend alerted me to the rumor that Turner Classic Movies is going to air Otto Preminger's mondo-bizarro 1968 film Skidoo. It's a wild hippie-dippy counterculture movie with older stars like Jackie Gleason, George Raft, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Mickey Rooney, Carol Channing (in eye-popping Rudy Gernreich gowns) and Groucho Marx as "God." Watching this movie is mind-blowing -- here's a scene with Jackie Gleason in prison on LSD. Never released on video, this drug-addled insanity has a finale with the credits sung entirely by Harry Nilsson that will unhinge your jaw! Supposedly it will air on Jan. 5th on TCM. Cannot wait!
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i was on a panel on nbc....preminger was there... and the topic was this movie. It was absoutely awful and we had to tell him that...I had taken LSD once and told Preminger this part of the movie was especially bad. he did not like this.
Posted at 2:48 p.m. ET on Oct 26, 2007 by richard crawford
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