It saved Indiana Jones from death by nuclear bomb … uh ….

There's an anecdote about him and an ailing Gilda Radner in that oral history of Saturday Night Live that shows him as utterly loveable and awesome.  Also I heard from someone with firsthand knowledge about a huge donation he made in honor of a different (non-famous) cancer victim.  Heart him and his work too.

There's an anecdote about him and an ailing Gilda Radner in that oral history of Saturday Night Live that shows him as utterly loveable and awesome.  Also I heard from someone with firsthand knowledge about a huge donation he made in honor of a different (non-famous) cancer victim.  Heart him and his work too.

I like your username.

I like your username.

I thought The Corsican Brothers was hi-larious when I was ten. 

I thought The Corsican Brothers was hi-larious when I was ten. 

I'm not familiar with that incident but it doesn't surprise me.

I'm not familiar with that incident but it doesn't surprise me.

Let me guess … is "Phillip Roth" betrayed by an angry, bitter, vengeful, unattractive wife, mother, daughter, sister, or female acquaintance?

Let me guess … is "Phillip Roth" betrayed by an angry, bitter, vengeful, unattractive wife, mother, daughter, sister, or female acquaintance?

And yet they're apparently making a movie of that one too?  Quite the run on Abraham Lincoln lately.

And yet they're apparently making a movie of that one too?  Quite the run on Abraham Lincoln lately.

Better to die at the hands of an assassin than eke out a night-bound existence as a vampire.

Better to die at the hands of an assassin than eke out a night-bound existence as a vampire.

I take it back.  There was something about the protagonist's father.  Maybe he was the titular Emperor of Ocean Park?

I take it back.  There was something about the protagonist's father.  Maybe he was the titular Emperor of Ocean Park?

This is well said.  I read the Emperor of Ocean Park and I do not remember one. thing. about it.

This is well said.  I read the Emperor of Ocean Park and I do not remember one. thing. about it.

Ugh, does anyone remember The Alienist?  Similarly, had a gratingly, tooth-achingly anachronistic spunky female professional character (there, she was a reporter, if memory serves).