[chajin]

In an example of life imitating art, this scenario was the basis for the final episode of the 1950-60s Perry Mason television series, entitled The Case of the Final Fade-out, where an actor is shot dead on the set with a prop gun loaded with real bullets. (Spoiler alert: Dick Clark is the murderer, actually committing two murders.)

An interesting aspect of the episode is the way all the actual backstage people for Perry Mason were given cameo roles in the episode as themselves (the cameraman as the cameraman, etc.), and Erle Stanley Gardner, the author of the original Perry Mason novels, himself played the judge at the episode's second trial.

[TakebackGOP]

“I am thinking to myself in other countries they are laughing at us twenty four hours a day and I’m thinking to myself if we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together, [starts to shout] all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! [crowd cheers] Wait! Shut up! Shut up! No shut up! I’m not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we’d kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families.”