Sometimes life really does imitate art. And sometimes that art is a 66-year-old Elia Kazan movie that hardly anyone remembers anymore.
Iโm talking about 1957โs โA Face in the Crowd,โ Kazanโs darkly brilliant mid-century media satire about an unscrupulous, guitar-strumming Arkansas drifter named Larry โLonesomeโ Rhodes — played by Andy Griffith, in an early, pre-Mayberry starring role — who becomes a populist radio and television sensation by bamboozling his millions of adoring fans.