Bye Bye Birdie (1963)

John Daly: Self

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• [first lines] 

  John Daly : This is John Daly reporting with the CBS mobile unit in front of the nation's Capitol bringing you special on the spot coverage of our current teenage crisis over the drafting of Conrad Birdie. Sociologists agree that Birdie is a phenomenon. And for those few music lovers who have never attended one of his concerts, here are some news photos tracing his meteoric rise.

  [brief satirically humorous montage of female teenage fans swooning over Conrad Birdie] 

  John Daly : And that, that is our army's newest weapon. Private Birdie reports for his induction in ten days; his income drops from two million dollars a year to seventy-eight dollars a month. It could only happen in America.