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In Minute 41 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike try to unpack the meaning of Brian’s surreal meeting with nine rather sinister-looking men with sojourns into the U.S. Supreme Court, Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski, and Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” video, look at the beginning of Jerry’s tenure as Brian’s manager, poor Cecil and his utter humiliation in front of Brian, Mandy, and the Money Men, Eddie Izzard’s channeling of David Bowie’s manager Tony Defries, Defries’s use of empty hype to make Bowie a star, the well-worn trope of the Faustian bargain in rock, the stereotype of the Jewish theatrical agent and its intersections with the British class system, and the mysterious identity of the hangers-on surrounding Cecil during his Gethsemane-like betrayal.
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