Oh, yes, you're right, it was a good show.  (So was Honey West, at least to my now-addled, still-besotted-with-Anne-Francis mind.)  Better than  MI, I agree.  The Avengers was best of that ilk, followed, I'd say, by Secret Agent Man, then UNCLE.

Yep, my thoughts exactly.  *I'M* old enough to remember the show, and out of nostalgia I even watched a few of the discs a couple years ago (netflix).  And it's still okay.
But look, if I'm not going to rush out and see the movie (and I'm not) even though I can name the characters and even know what UNCLE stands for..…

Mustard gas makes me laugh because of the Richard Pryor line "I got mustard gas wounds all over my body!"

If your coworkers can't understand the hilarity of dense hydrogen.. well, THEY'RE dense.
That's what you tell them.  Minimize the screen first.

Damn, I haven't seen Tales of the City though I've read the books, all of them, at least twice.  They're dated, and some of the sequences are a little .. well never mind.  Maybe I'll have to check out the series, finally.

That's a good point, about "plastic models".  And that phenomenon kinda snuck up on me.  I mean, was born in the late 50s, have watched movies for a long damn time, and every now and then, these days, when some article gushes about, say Melissa McCarthy or some other "non-conventional looking" actress, it's way out of…

I'm really glad Come Back to the Five and Dime is getting attention today.  I wasn't aware that there's no proper video release..
I saw it every chance I could, dragged people to it when I could, when it played the revival/art house theatres (which it did, often).  There was never a time when I didn't enjoy it, but…

I talked 5 & Dime in comments on a different article today so I won't again… but man, it's good.  (You did kind of spoil the sort-of-surprise up there—- but even when I saw the movie for the first time I knew it almost right away.)  I guess I never think of Karen Black as having… what, fallen as far as she did? …

Come Back to the Five and Dime is good - it was during Altman's sort-of-exile from Hollywood period, when he was doing play adaptations and tv work.

—-and while we're at it, a Pulitzer for "…the human condition (VG+, some cosmetic damage from robots),"

Yeah, it WAS a famous film.

—and that wouldn't matter because you would be required to be stoned out of your gourd when you watched it.

Fevre Dream would be a joy to see on any screen, tv or movie, but… yeah.  People have gotten to the saturation point with southern vampires….
Besides, George C. Scott is dead, and HE was my dream Abner Marsh.

I always like to point out that, according to GM Fraser, Flashman should have been played by David Niven…
Now, Niven was too old when the McDowell movie came out, but I don't think Fraser had a problem with that casting.  And neither did I; my problem was that they didn't make any more of the movies. 

I knew back when the movie was announced that it would be a shadow of WWZ the book, but.. knowing that going in, I thought it was fine (I avoided rereading the novel until after, which was good).  They dealt with the PG-13 issue very well (there were fewer popup scares than I expected, more…

A Dortmunder series seems like it should have happened years back.  Not too late, obviously, and it would seem a natural.  If, for instance, you only have whoever plays Tiny, or Murch, for a few weeks, fine, don't use them in the next caper, they're not always there.
I'm stymied as to casting - I know Redford's…

Not sure if it's true, but it was said (maybe by Spacey) at the time that the main direction he got from Hanson on how to play Jack Vincennes was a whispered "Dean Martin" before a take. 
It certainly worked, and I mean that in a good way.  To me that's the best work Spacey has done.  Okay, he was good in Usual…

Good point about the ending to The Stand, but…  not really sure how to fix that.  A man-to-man battle between Flagg and (jeez I don't know, Larry?) might work if Flagg starts to lose it (a la Count Rugen in Princess Bride) ; that is, lose his supernaturalness.
But I don't know.  I'm not fond of the extras King put in…

There was a Sable series, too, I think in the 80s?  (Jon Sable, freelance, not Silver Sable the girl mercenary.)

Well okay.   I would love to see a cable series based on AVC comments about Breaking Bad, interspersed with dramatizations of the interviews done with the BB cast.