Before turning the TV off, I switched to CNBC to see what informercial was airing at this hour of the night.
Lo and behold: it's Peter Fonda, wearing a leather jacket that makes him look more like Fonzie than Captain America, shilling for a TimeLife box set of CDs called FLOWER POWER (collecting familiar counterculture hits from 1966-1974): http://www.TimeLife.com/flowerpower
This reminds me of the semi-forgotten 1990 comedy FLASHBACK, where Dennis Hopper played an aging hippie bedeviling Kiefer Sutherland in a proto-Jack Bauer role as an FBI agent. If you do rent or buy FLASHBACK, you'll never forget the way Hopper reads this line of dialogue re the nostalgic appeal of EASY RIDER for aging boomers:
"And you can get it at your lo-cal vid-e-o store!"
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