Nooo talking. Take these tags home. They’re to be used in the event you’re burnt beyond recognition in a nuclear holocaust….and nooo talking during a nuclear holocaust…I shall be taking names.
—Robert Klein, impersonating a teacher in 1950s air-raid drills, quoted in Phil Berger, The Last Laugh: The World of Stand-Up Comics, Updated Edition (2000)
Have just finished watching, for the first time in well over a decade, The Atomic Cafe.
What a great documentary. It truly captures the spirit of the Atomic Age.
I plan to be ducking and covering all day.
BTW: Watching the closing credits I was surprised to see that my late, great colleague Charles Wolfe was a music consultant on the film.
