The first draft of the screenplay had a reason: it was a curse placed on him by a chick at the TV station that he'd jilted.

Per the IMDb Trivia page, there are 38 days actually shown in the movie.

that show basically got a 7-year-old girl in Detroit killed

IIRC, and I haven't seen this film in 20 years, they didn't care so much about the hospital keeping Baldwin on, because Baldwin and Kidman are splitting a giant pot of money.

"Houston, we are venting something into space."

Did you know we can't go faster than the speed of light? Man, "Star Wars" is crap.

And that little boy that nobody liked grew up to be…Roy Cohn.

Yeah, no. The reputation of "E.T." is not marred by a Twilight Zone segment that's been almost completely forgotten.

They also love to love all the things everyone else hates. Exhibit A: Yoko Ono.

Yeah, this is a pretty horrible choice for a Random Roles column.

Poor Newman.

He's not dead, you know, you could meet him now.

It did have a great ending scene, though, with Iris DeMent singing "Our Town" over a montage.

It wasn't that secret, was it? That show was crazy.

Completely random, useless, and not very interesting trivia: the actual apartment complex that was used for exterior shots in "Melrose Place" was where Leno and Rosemary Labianca's daughter lived. Leno and Rosemary dropped her off there right before they went home to be murdered.

I'm not sure if I ever watched Magic Johnson's show.

I can't imagine being interested enough to check any user's comment history about anything.

I was wondering about that. Those movies were hilarious.

They recorded a Charlie Manson tune, for fuck's sake, that album deserved to tank.

Oliver Platt swordfighting and Catherine McCormick topless, that movie should have been a hit