"We’re in the desert, 40 miles out, in Blythe, California, and the lead
girl was very—she was something else. Haji. You remember her? [Russ Meyer] had me go to a motel with her for the night, so we’d be, uh, familiar with the next scene. Boy, I thought that’s what Hollywood was all about. [Laughs.] Can you imagine…

I loved it. But I hope we find out at some point very soon that Quentin Tarantino ghost-wrote that Star Trek bit between Badger and Skinny Pete, because that's the only excuse I'll accept for something that felt so unabashedly like a scene cloned from a QT movie as that did.

In fact, last week's Magic City was the highest rated episode of the series in its history. So OBVIOUSLY Starz would cancel it…

I'd say it started off a bit slow, maybe spending a bit more time getting wound up than absolutely necessary, but as @avclub-eac75edc18b8546c46893fe4b75ab995:disqus observed below, it's finishing at least strong as the first season did, which makes this decision all the more depressing. I'm kind of pissed at the way…

That's it: I'm going drinking with Kelly Lynch tomorrow night. And, oh, the things we're going to say about Starz…

Just go ahead and pour the whole shaker of salt into the wound, why don't you…

Actually, amazingly enough, they really did shoot the show in Miami.

I think it'd be unwise to bet against Ben Diamond finding a way out of a nasty situation. (And, no, I haven't seen the season finale yet, so that's just speculation on my part. I could be very wrong.)

I had no idea that Jim Rash and I were soulmates. But here we are.

I am not ashamed to say that my mother-son dance at my wedding was to the Backstreet Boys' "The Perfect Fan."

Let us not forget that the creator of Voyagers!, Jim Parriott, also gave the world Misfits of Science…mostly because, if you go to Amazon and search the words "Misfits of Science Oral History," you will find an eBook I published…

Thing is, Michael Dorn - who I also just interviewed, albeit for Bullz-Eye rather than the AV Club: http://blog.bullz-eye.com/2… - actually liked the "beauty and the beast" aspect of the Worf/Troi relationship, although he thought they copped out by taming the Klingon aspects of courtship. (He definitely seemed to…

It's basically the best thing ever, every single time it happens. It's funny, I just had an in-person chat with someone last night at a TCA party who I'd interviewed by phone but never actually met, and I was able to identify myself by the really obscure pilot I'd asked him about during our interview, which led to a…

My blog is http://www.newsreviewsinter…

Oddly, he brought up Zamba before I did.

Just as a sidebar, I actually haven't finished the Random Roles interview - we're wrapping it up by phone once I've returned from the TCA tour - so consider this the official thread for suggestions.

You know, it's so weird: I actually had that in my follow-up email questions, but for whatever reason, his publicist didn't approve it. Now I want to know the deal even more than I did before!

It is. Although I did send off an email follow-up asking about it, along with a question about playing Captain America for Marvel Comics personal appearances. Alas, the publicist has yet to get back to me with a reply. (If I get it, I'll post it on my own blog.)

@avclub-87caf7c42aedbada42572e2374eed08d:disqus It absolutely is. I remembered it at some point in the process of putting together the piece, but then I obviously forgot it before I finished it. This is particularly shameful, as I own "The Ghost Busters: The Complete Series" (and hope to get Larry Storch to sign it…

Well, let's be honest: I've never claimed to be Sean O'Neal.