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Jackie Wilson's Paradise Club appearance is now on YouTube (youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Bys_-LcgY and youtube.com/watch?v=7dG-NDEg__g).

Mr. Excitement was still in good form, but his 1973 appearance on ABC in Concert was even better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LqbXlj812U

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As thrilling as you found Al Pacino's one of many characters fondling a gun or other firearm, that is how thrilling I found the U.S. Senate Banking Committee TELEVISED IN PRIME TIME HEARINGS & NOW VIDEO ARCHIVED ON YOU TUBE showing CEO's of such Corporate Conquistadors and wealth concentrators being grilled by Senators who had been silent for decades of transferred wealth in record Big Scoops from Deregulated & PRIVATIZED Blue Collar Main Street....

Here are the Search Words if you want to relive or experience for first time a brief recent history when TELEVISED ACCESS TO CONFRONTATIONS WITH OUR CORPORATE CEO OVERLORDS was provided and now sits barely viewed on U. of Tube's SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE HEARING FANTASY ISLAND TV PROGRAMMING (Anything with Senator Elizabeth Warren's name in the online search vis a vis SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE HEARINGS is likely to shock you as to who has never passed muster of DNC Corporate Elite and their Wall Street pay masters\mistresses as Presidential Candidate Material:

" Elizabeth Warren Grills CEOs Wells Fargo Senate Banking Committee Hearings "

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Elizabeth+Warren+Grills+CEOs+Wells+Fargo+Senate+Banking+Committee+Hearings

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cv: 11 year highly commended though never bonused or cash incentivized Wells Fargo Card Services Executive Office lower blue collar salaried Regulatory Agency (we were audited by the toothless Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) Escalated Sr. Written Complaint Case Worker. Pennies on the contents of life savings was about all that we were empowered to reclaim for perfectly legal banking industry bid-net as usual....

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Jon Landau's avatar

Greil--White Heat, overrated? Not only is it Cagney's best, but heavy Steve Cochran, the psychotic Oedipal mother Margret

Wycherly, the superb and classic moll, Virginia Mayo, and under cover Edmond O'Brien are all white hot and at the top of their game. Raoul Walsh specialized in stories of unchecked ambition whether of likable figures like boxer Jim Corbett ("Gentleman Jim") or the miserable General Custer ("They Died with Their Boots On") or depression era icons like Bogart ("High Sierra" and "They Drive By Night") or Cagney in his second most remarkable performance ("The Roaring Twenties"). HIs gift for character, action, editing, pacing, and story telling place him in the the first rank, and he was the best director at Warner Brothers during the late Thirties and Forties, give or take Michael Curtiz, who made "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "Casablanca" in the same year, 1942! Now, that was amazing. Jon Landau

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Greil Marcus's avatar

I remember some great programming: watching Ali knock out Zora Folley with the most beautiful punch I've ever seen on TV in Reno, immediately followed by "Gentleman Jim."

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