Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972) review

Businessman Donald Beeman (Tom Smothers) gets tired of his job and leaves in order to take lessons under Mr. Delasandro (Orson Welles) on how to become a tap-dancing magician (?!) - after graduating magna cum laude, he takes his act on the road, leaving former colleague Mr. Turnbull (John Astin) behind to act as his 'manager.'  De Palma himself admitted - in the documentary about him by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow - that the production was a wreck (and it shows): Orson wouldn't learn his lines, Smothers disappeared for days and when he wrote some ways to "fix the movie," he was booted out.  It's too bad, because there's a snarky satire of capitalist culture in there underneath the sloppiness - Astin peddles a 'way out' of that corporate lifestyle to the disenfranchised white collar guys and they actually buy in: remember, always live life at the gut level.