It needed better songs.

the song’s jaunty arrangement underlines its sense of humor, giving nuclear holocaust the same soundtrack Newman might write for a musical’s big finale.

No, she loses it with two out in the bottom of the ninth when Jim Joyce erroneously calls the batter safe at first. Complications ensue.

Vic Morrow (and the two child actors) were killed by a helicopter around the same time during filming of the theatrical TZ movie.

"Who ARE these suicides?"

Around 1989 Spy Magazine did a page-long piece, collecting snippets of reviews of every Dylan album since John Wesley Harding where at least critic per album wrote, "Dylan is back." I suspect you just as easily update that piece with reviews of every Dylan album *since* 1989, as well.

Don't forget to pack a wife.

Thirty years ago Cliff could have said, "The next president HAS to be named 'Barack Obama" and gotten as equally huge a laugh.

Some philosophers believe that when you die, you retain only one image of this existence as you enter the next realm.

"That menstrual cycle was just two days away from retirement!"

"(Cliff) admits that he can’t fix Cheers’ bathroom plumbing because he’s 'strictly theory.'"

Eddie's website has (had?) a hardcore Beatles trivia quiz, the information culled from tons of c. 1964 Beatles fan magazines. He's long overdue for a "Random Roles" profile.

Well, Armond White thought Jack and Jill was a hoot.

Much like double cranko, the novel and movie Bang the Drum Slowly has TEGWAR (The Exciting Game without Any Rules), a card game the cynical baseball players use to fleece unsuspecting fans. The writer Mark Harris was inspired by a similar game invented by the Marx Brothers during their vaudeville days.

Neville *also* portrayed Humbert in an aborted 1971 musical comedy version of Lolita (Lolita, My Love, written by Alan Jay Lerner and John Barry), which closed out of town. I have a bootleg recording of a live performance — the musical was actually not bad and Neville was quite poignant in the role, but the audience…

Epstein's Mother. She always wrote great absence letters.

Well, she was no Freida.

"That's right, even though I'm American, I hate 'Freedom"'"

Broadcast News had the sweatiest scene of all time.

Charles Schulz publicly praised THE FAMILY CIRCUS, but privately told a colleague (if I remember correctly) that "you could get diabetes from reading it."