Baz Luhrmann's rendition of The Great Gatsby doesn't debut until December of this year, but we're already seeing the fateful tale's influence on the catwalk.
Ickes, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jim Farley, Sam Rosenman, Missy LeHand, Robert Sherwood, Steve Earley, Wild Bill Donovan, Felix Frankfurter, Archibald McLeish and above all, Harry Hopkins, are all given their due in influencing FDR's fateful decision.
Fate has a fateful way of slipping into symphonies.
On the events later in that fateful week, the evidence leaders argued improper political influence, stemming from South Africa's deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa's phone calls, which led to the decision to remove the strikers.
He allegedly left Jackson unattended under the influence of the drug on that fateful morning, failed to properly resuscitate the star when he stopped breathing and then delayed calling 911, all while seeking to hide evidence.
Thus, Zimmerman's intimate knowledge of Stand Your Ground laws may have influenced his decision to follow Martin that fateful night (even though it was not invoked in his defense at trial).
But such forceful efforts to deter potential enemies and influence friends can be dated back, as Arendt wrote, to "the fateful war crime that ended the last world war," the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
And now, virtually all of the youth entertainment made today from the rapturous intensity of the Twilight films to the urgent confessions of Gossip Girl, has been influenced in some way by what those five kids did on that fateful day in detention.
If you were making a chart of malign influences on popular music over the past 40 years - scat singing, nu-metal, the dark and fateful moment when Gary Lightbody turned to his friends and said, "I'm going to form a band called Snow Patrol" - then cocaine would come high.
