August 23rd, 2012
The Best of Times,
(1981)
Nicolas Cage is Nicolas Coppola
I've known about The Best of Times
for years and years but have never been able to find any
information on it besides the basics: in 1981 teenage Nicolas Cage
and Crispin Glover co-starred in an ABC pilot for a Laugh-In-style
variety show. For a collector of weird pop culture ephemera could
there be a more tantalizing sentence? It's just too weird to be true.
I'd searched all the legal and illegal places on the internet I knew
and inquired with people and places that collect such things but no
luck! How could I start a zine about Nicolas Cage without seeing
this? Surely it would be the crown jewel!
Is it a sign from Heaven? Today, the
day I finally decide to do this zine and skip right to Fast Times
at Ridgemont High, I run into
the Best of Times pilot just sitting on YouTube waiting to be
watched. God has given his blessing to this Nicolas Cage blog.
