The Fossethon officially starts tomorrow morning (11/10/07).

And, so, here we have the most provocative moment in Cabaret. How provocative? Go over to YouTube and check out the comments and take a look at some of the videos that have been made from this song by white supremacists, including a very lame punk rock version by some racist skinheads, apparently unaware that writer of those oddly inspiring lyrics were written by the late Fred Ebb who was, of course, Jewish.

Biographer Martin Gottfried writes that Bob Fosse was not fond of this moment, and he’d be appalled by the neo-Nazi jerkwads of YouTube. He was, nevertheless, wrong. Few moment in films show as powerfully how totalitarianism takes hold; how the greatest evil can easily be cloaked in the guise of the greatest good. There’s nothing like it this side of Leni Riefenstahl.

“Tomorrow Belongs to Me” is a chilling counterpoint to a better known, and even more powerful, music driven movie moment.

UPDATE: I should perhaps have mentioned before that any early comers with blogathon entries can feel free to provide a link in comments and/or e-mail me at the official FtY address: forwardtoyesterday@yahoo.com. (Those of you who have my personal e-mail address may feel free to use that as well.) The official blogathon page should be up later tonight or early morning (PST) at the latest. My first post(s) in the blogathon may or may not go up at the same time. I’m working on it!

AND ANOTHER UPDATE: Check out my special ‘thon logo. All thanks to this graphical genius and my crack computer genius team, i.e., the mysterious BKS. A round of applause, please.