The television networks thought that riots in the North might replace the now absent police dogs, fire hoses, cattle prods and mounted state troopers of the South in entertainment value. They each dispatched top-flight task forces to cover the rioting in full color. Antonioni announced plans in Rome to do a technicolor movie concerning the riots. It would involve one man's agony in trying to decide whether to throw a brick at the police and the entire movie would take place in a kitchenette apartment. Marcello Mastroianni would play the lead in blackface.

— The spook who sat by the door by Sam Greenlee (African American life) (Page 172)