The Best of Times - #031

Everyone has to start somewhere, even if you’re the grandson of a legendary composer and nephew of one of the greatest directors of all time, though I’m sure that helps with getting auditions. Nicolas Coppola was no different when he co-starred in a variety show television pilot opposite the one and only Crispin Glover long before his turn as George McFly in Back to the Future. So enjoy as we bask in the glory of Nicolas Coppola’s acting debut and an absolute treat for any Nicolas Cage fan: The Best of Times.

Meant to be a television pilot that was never picked up to become a series, The Best of Times is a “variety show” about life as a teenager seen through the eyes of eight teenagers who perform skits, songs and dances that relate to their views between childhood and adulthood. That’s the best we can describe it because god knows there’s no plot to this thing at all.

The Best of Times features the acting debuts of a handful of stars including the man who made it in life by being cast as George McFly in Back to the Future but was subsequently fired and replaced by a double in the sequels which triggered a lawsuit that still protects actors from having their likeness used without their permission today – the always strange and slightly unsettling Crispin Glover, scream queen horror actress Jill Schoelen and of course the man who puts the muscles in muscle beach Academy Award winning actor and future El Salvador war draftee Nicolas Kim Coppola better known as Nicolas Cage.