NBC’s “The Tonight Show” Thirty years after playing Ren McCormack in the iconic eighties film “Footloose,” Kevin Bacon put on his dancing shoes once again for a dramatic entrance to NBC’s Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, complete with that burgundy tux jacket and sparkles in the air.

As in the 1984 film, the powers that be (this time apparently the executives at NBC) issue an edict stating that dancing is no longer allowed on the Tonight Show. Fallon announces the new rule to his incredulous and upset audience as Bacon watches on television from his dressing room. His reaction, “Jump back, this is the Tonight Show, there has to be dancing.” He pulls a cassette tape out of his jeans back pocket, pops it into a handy nearby wall-mounted player, and the rest, as they say, is movie re-creation history.

Bacon proves once again the words of Solomon (quoted by Ren in “Footloose”) are true. Despite what any human ordinance may decree, in the divine scheme of things, “There is a time to dance.”