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Shatner’s Got Your Back- A glance back at 1980’s most provocative political potboiler.

America: land of opportunity, democracy’s greatest food court, and the true free society. A place where you can head a multi-national corporation barefoot and decide the fate of your minions without donning a loafer; if that ain’t freedom than the good Lord can beat me like one of Bing Crosby’s youngin’s right where I stand!!

Now old La Stu loves America more than Charlie Daniels loves his fiddle, Ralphs-Club key parties, and his beloved vinyl copy of Chicago’s Hot Streets and that ain’t no bucket of hog liver-lovin’ guff!! So when the Vic-ster saw this neglected political thriller on Movies Til Sunrise the other week (on Black Oak’s very own UHF flagship station, WORT, Channel 52), he got to thinkin’: who’s watching our President’s back?

Sure, we have the finest security team ever since Eli Whitney convinced the British his cotton gin was a cocktail mixer, but does our Commander-In-Chief have the expertise of FBI head Jerry O’ Connor (as brought to life by Pray For The Wildcats’s William Shatner)??? I shudder to think if our current head of state has settled for anything less...

I also think that our current President could learn some moves from tennis shoe tycoon and renowned sex therapist-turned-master thespian Van Johnson’s smooth-as-Billy Dee Williams portrayal of President Ethan Richards. If only he were the present head cheese, America would shine again like the hood of Grammy La Stu’s ’48 Tucker!

Now that Rhino Home Video can strategically market your backside faster than Africanized-killer bees on a freedom-fried turnip soufflé, I’d say in these times of global uncertainty it would help us all to pick up the trusty DVD of this important film document and have a look back at a truly great leader, President Ethan Richards- and that man who put the President’s life above his own, FBI Chief Jerry ‘O Connor, a true hero for our time and for all time.

God bless America!

Now pass me my bath salts and cue up Hot Streets, La Stu’s got a date with Democracy!

It’s a free society...

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Victor M. La Stu Jr. was born in Black Oak, Arkansas and moved to the Central California Coast in his early 20s. He attended the University of Santa Maria and received his master's degree in Cinema studies from the University of Chatsworth in Idaho. He was a visiting professor at the Anglo-American College of Law in Prague, CZ for many years where he lectured regularly on the abuse of power in the entertainment industry. He is the author of several books including Cooking With Gum and The World Of Huey Lewis. When not contributing to Rhino.com, he can be found checking his couch for loose change.

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