Weekend events include re-enactments, with the H.M.S. Bounty and the Providence sailing past firing cannons.
The program mixes re-enactments with comments by figures who played roles in McCarthy's big moment or studied it.
And yet this promises to be stranger than most re-enactments, with their good-natured camaraderie and shared insider tips.
Combining contemporary re-enactments with archival films and still photographs, the 40-minute movie is every bit as exciting as a commercial epic.
A big video screen presents band members' good-humored (and slightly scripted) reminiscences, and re-enactments with young actors, when it's not pulsating with light-show splashes, Op-art explosions or archival '60s moments as the Rascals play.
Instead, the "theatrical documentary" is more a collective rumination, threading together first-hand accounts, court documents and transcripts, autopsy reports, and occasional re-enactments, with interviews of locals played on four large video screens.
It combines restrained re-enactments with real 911 tapes — the above case is from Bucks County, Pa., and that poor caller's voice is a chilling thing to hear — to show 911 operators at their best.
"Divorce Court" follows not only "Judge Judy," but also "Judge Jerry Judydy's husband), "The People's Court," "Judge Joe Brown," "Judge Mills Lane," "Judge Mathis," "Judge Wapner's Animal Court" and even the "Divorce Courts" of the past, which featured courtroom re-enactments with actors, including Alan Alda and Jack Nicholson, as the litigants and real lawyers and real judges.
If it's a god on a skateboard you want, a god on a skateboard you'll get in this hagiography, which intersperses biographical segments about Mr. Way (including some disorienting re-enactments) with clips from his 2005 jump over the Great Wall of China, one of the many oh-no-he-didn't stunts that have cemented his legacy as a technical innovator and a marketer's dream.
Five years later, the General Court reinforced this enactment with yet another.
