"The abuse of power has never been as maddeningly funny," Kinn and Piazza write of the 1964 film directed by Stanley Kubrick. "Kubrick's pantheon of eccentrics and grotesques with their fingers on the button is as absurd and riotously funny as it is paralyzing."
The movie originally had a line in which the character of Major "King Kong," portrayed by Slim Pickens, originally had a line in which he said that "a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas," according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Because the movie was being released shortly after the JFK assassination (it came out in January 1964), the line was changed so the city referenced was Las Vegas.
