> his famous zippered shoes—the one aspect of the man’s sartorial image that really merits interest

So many good solos well discussed here, so I'll throw in one that seems to have gone unmentioned: Pat Metheney on "Amelia" from the live Joni Mitchell album Shadows and Light.

Always thought the main problem with "Spaceballs" (but hardly unique to it) was that it was a feature-length film with about a long-form SNL skit's worth of concept.

It pokes fun at everything in sight — the movies/shows, organized fandom, over-the-hill actors living in the past… and then plausibly manages a transition to stuff getting all too real. Whatever it is, it's league-of-its-own good.

A nostalgia channel called Antenna TV, available on over-the-air DTV (and, I think, also picked up by some cable providers), is doing Fish-and-Yemana-era "Barney Miller" reruns these days. Go check it out. Warning: addictive.

Deana was a semi-wasted character — they seemed to neither take full advantage of having her unusual capabilities in this new position on the crew, nor rebel against it — but I thought her mother was one of the most outrageously enjoyable characters of any Star Trek series.

The Shield in particular deserves more attention as an cultural antecedent for other shows, including Breaking Bad. It was the first TV show that ever made me think, "the moral ambiguity here is fractal."

Yeah — they initially set up Walt with so many sympathetic signifiers (schoolteacher, cancer victim, insurance-company victim, odd man out when colleagues made millions and won prizes off his idea, menschy parent and defender of his handicapped son…) you half expected him to get a bashful of merit badges. But then,…

Ark II?
http://www.imdb.com/title/t…

Sean Connery as M. to one of the new Bonds (treating it as a nom de guerre assumed by a succession of agents over many years.) That could be fun: sort of a "Trapper John, M.D." premise in which he tries to represent the agency and government's priorities and a general wider and wiser perspective as the supervisor of…

OSS? Mmm… that was the Yank agency, a predecessor to the CIA…

Anybody here read Peter Bowen's Gabriel du Pre novels? The one I happened across (Long Son) seemed rather promising examples of the rural/ethnic microcosm bit of the genre…

Hopefully they'll figure out what made the various (at least 3) previous attempts not too successful.

Not sure why this particular show is filmed there, but over the last decade or so, NM has put a lot of brains and effort (and tax incentives) into attracting the film and TV industry. So besides a diversity of scenery and a tendency toward agreeable weather, the state has built up a fair bit of the physical and human…

Its charms unfold too slowly for today's networks, I suppose. After the first episode that I blundered across, I decided that a better title would have been "Men Behaving Craggily" and I didn't watch for a while, but it kinda grows on you.

the fruit that decorates it, is terrible no matter how you slice it.

this comment made me realize that I specifically remember the last line from only a few movies and essentially no TV shows. After that and Citizen Kane and Casablanca, I've got nothin'.

I personally think the edge of desperation she gets from shouting out the live version of "Coyote" and "Back Crow" on Shadows and Light is the difference between great and perfect. The band for that album ain't half bad either!

Heart? Now there's a thought — sort of a Nancy Wilson "Live at McCabe's" sensibility with more of the Heart personnel and repertoire… I'd pre-order that.

Gordon Lightfoot, minus the string arrangements, with a producer who knows how to be both effective and invisible… hmm…