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  • Warning: Spoilers
    . . . highlights General Electric's three-way advertising partnership with America's Beloved incoming President FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt), the GE Power Monopoly itself, and Warner Bros., whose ad campaign for its musical 42nd STREET riffed off FDR's swearing-in ceremony, proclaiming on billboards that its eye-popping musical was "Inaugurating a New Era in Entertainment." With White House Resident-Elect Rump's own fingers-crossed-beneath-a-Bible bit coming up just a few weeks from Today, what Commercial team-ups--besides such obvious tie-ins as Made-in-China Rump Ties, Mad Cow Diseased Rump Steaks, and Kegs of Rumpwater--spring to mind for this Blessed Event that might rival FDR's 1933 Triad of Hype? How about PURGE: ELECTION YEAR hooking up with Ex-Lax and topping it all off with a group shop picturing all the key Rumps Finding Relief while Haunched above Their Golden Thrones? With Fox's Fake News Channel coming up with new "Breaking News" jaw-busters by the minute, 2017 will be no time to Suffer the Heartbreak of Constipation. Why not preempt this with "Rumps' Aweigh!"?
  • Just watched this one on the Gold Diggers of 1933 DVD which means this was probably part of The Busby Berkeley Collection boxed set. Various people which includes directors John Landis and John Waters discuss the making of the legendary Warner Bros. movie musical which got together many of the cast and crew that would subsequently collaborate on others for the studio in the next several years. Darryl F. Zanuck, who was head of production at the time, is also mentioned as the one responsible for bringing Berkeley to Warners after Busby's previous stint at Goldwyn Studios impressed him. Also mentioned is Gower Champion's 1980 Broadway production and how he did a tribute to Berkeley despite the whole thing being confined to the stage. In summary, 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage is a wonderful account on this innovative production's impact to the screen musical.