Top cast:Maurice Costello,Leo Delaney,Julia Swayne Gordon
Director:Spike Jonze
Genre:War
Region:Iraq
Year:2009
Storyline:Whether it was just pretentious film-making or serious cinematic art was left up to the audience.Plot SynopsisThe title credits were viewed atop a verdant green lawn (at Maryon Park, later a crucial location in the film), with he transparent letters revealing a bikinied model undulating during a photo-shoot on a roof-top against a light blue sky.Since this show was the only thing I had going for me in my life, I have decided to kill myself.I'm gonna blow my brains out right on this program a week from today.Tune in next Tuesday.That should give the public relations people a week to promote the show.We ought to get a hell of a rating out of that - a fifty share, easy.Production assistants and the director are bewildered and can scarcely believe what they have heard.Before the next segment, a floor manager and associate producer struggle to pull Howard away from his reporting desk.She entreats him to stop, fearfully but helplessly calling: "Barry! Barry!"Shortly later, Jillian searches desperately for her son near their home, using a flashlight o guide her way.Many forget that Hattie McDaniel and other black cast members were not allowed to attend the premiere of the film in racially-segregated Atlanta in mid-December 1939.Instruments were substituted as voices to parody and make fun of talking films and the speaking characters.