As a people, we have an innate, near-Borgesian, affinity for the surreal.
Which may, or may not, be entirely subconscious.
I’m in the middle of the audiobook of Carrie Fisher’sWishful Drinking, which is partly a total squicky trainwreck and partly genius gutbusting funny.
And that makes this, below, even trippier and more inspiringly godawful tacky than it already is.
Debbie Reynolds, b. El Paso, in the first AmericanScopitone video. Made, not so incidentally, by her own Harmon-ee Productions company.