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Posted Oct. 23, 2007,
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!