Did Will Navidson’s new house really contain an impossibly long hallway? What about the second story, longer on the inside than on the outside? Perhaps the whole story was invented by that strange man, Zampanò – but what about all the sources he cited?
Was there really ever a House of Leaves, or did our writers simply build… a house of cards?
ID: Dick Clark from Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, standing besides a bird cage which holds a white columbiforme bird. /End ID.
Dick Clark??¹
¹ While Dick Clark did produce² Beyond Belief, its iconic presenter was actually Jonathan Frakes, also known for playing Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
² What does a producer even do? People like to talk about how bosses “do nothing” but I’ve always thought that was a poor criticism, one that just barely misses the point. Of course bosses do things – even things essential for the company’s success – they just get paid too much for it. Your average factory, if you defenestrated all the management, would stop functioning as soon as your satisfaction faded. The problem isn’t that managers exist at all, it’s that they’ve inexplicably been marked as More Important than the people who operate the machines or clean the factory floor or drive the bus or ink the tattoo on the foreman’s bicep (et cetera). You’re still going to have bosses in the communist utopia, they’ll just get the same shitty paycheck as every other bastard who cooperatively owns that grimy old brick shithouse.
Anyway. Point is. I know “producers” do something but I never actually learned what it is. But it’s what Dick Clark did for Beyond Belief.
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