This is a particularly fun quote.
Timothy Leary has a long quote I won't read
you about all the things -- the silly nonsense
going on -- and at the very end an actor like
Micky Dolenz would look right at the screen
-- right -- so we're doing this metatextual
-- I'm "fourth-walling" you -- "that's pretty
good talking for a long-haired weirdo, huh,
Mr and Mrs. America?"
So he was right there telling them we're laying
something out here, but you don't even notice.
Shh.
Don't watch.
And so I think that's really interesting.
Also, what's interesting is look at Mr. Dolenz'
hair.
It's all afro.
This was a huge new thing to show on television.
First of all, long hair, but this is ethnic
hair.
This doesn't belong on TV so, in fact, on
the first season they had him iron his hair.
They would not allow this vaguely white, although
he's actually Italian and Native American
-- no.
no and afro?
No, no, no, that;s not allowed on television.
Not until the second season, when they get
a little more power that they start looking
like they do in normal life.
