This week at the Watching Hour: the infamous Bugsy Malone.
Kids. Gangsters. Kid gangsters. Musical numbers. Cream pies. Baby Jody Foster.
No, true believers, those things I listed above are not the REAL reasons to see Bugsy Malone. No, no, no. There is only ONE TRUE REASON to see Bugsy Malone. It's this guy:
PAUL FUCKING WILLIAMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Muppets? Phantom of the Paradise!? Gangster kids!?!?!? FACT: I am more envious of this man's professional career than anybody else's.
Last week, The Watching Hour hosted a slumber party with pizza, beer, coke floats, double-stuffed oreos, 80s board games galore, Saved by the Bell, and a bunch of people way to old to be seen in public wearing their pajamas. This week, is a full on cream pie fight too much to ask for?
-Ben
p.s. All this Paul Williams talk has me hot and bothered, so with that in mind, and in honor of the 20 year anniversary of Jim Henson's death...
Goddamn. I tear up every time I watch it...