The "director's cut" of JFK turns out to be 20 minutes more detestable
and mendacious than the first cut. Goebbels couldn't have done better.
 
A typically despicable "restoration" is the scene based on Jim Garrison's
appearance on the Tonight show. I remember that show vividly -- Carson
was subdued and respectful, and devoted the entire show to Garrison. In
O. Stones's version, "Johnny Johnson," in the snide and unsubtle person of
John Larroquette, does nothing but toss out sarcastic and demeaning remarks
to noble lawyer Garrison, who quietly puts him in his place -- at which
point Garrison is yanked off the show. I guess this must be artistic license.
 
It makes me dizzy to think of an entire gullible, uncritical MTV generation --
and other folks who ought to know better -- accepting this captious claptrap
as a rational interpretation of history. Miserere nobis.
 
kjf-