“What we learned in the sixties,” Thom Mount said, “is that trying to build an alternative structure outside the system, given the power of the system, is never going to work.” They were amenable to the corporate superstructure, accessories to Chinatown. They called the Polo Lounge the Polio Lounge. “Bob Evans,” John Landis said, “is the classic example of everything that does not interest me.”
