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Peter Bogdanovich's Mask
Peter Bogdanovich, for those of you who may not know, is one of the boy geniuses of the 1970s film movement. He's on the Mount Rushmore of films of the 70s. Then he famously lost his way, started drinking his own Kool-Aid, and then came back with a movie called Mask which I believe Cher was either nominated for or won the Academy Award. And that movie, I could write an entire book on the machinizations of insanity on that movie. Here's the one thing I remember most about it: I'm a huge apocalypse now fan. The scene in Apocalypse Now, where they cut to the weird looking guy who finally says only