For a few years in the early '90s when I lived in the Twin Cities I worked with a lady who (as I learned many years later) turned out to be Nick Swardson's mother - he would have been in high school then. Now I know why she always looked so incredibly worn down all the time.

I was a kid in the 1960s and had glasses starting at age 7. Many people born more recently who wear glasses have never worn ones with glass lenses. This episode couldn't have been effective in the acrylic-lens era, so I guess it's fortuitous they hadn't been invented yet.

As noted elsewhere: You CAN'T see Bucky Larson at the moment. It was pulled 9/23 from all the theaters in which it was still playing; its run lasted 14 days.

Well, someone liked it well enough to hire its screenwriter/adapter Nicholas Meyer to adapt a second Roth novel (for a different director). I suppose he couldn't have been blamed for the hugely counterproductive casting. Not just the leads, but c'mon, Gary Sinise as Zuckerman?

This is excusable, in my opinion, because the movie opened at 1,500 theaters on 9/9 and was already gone from ALL of them by 9/23 (per Box Office Mojo). You couldn't see it now even if you wanted to. In a sense it has already receded into film infamy.

Wentworth Miller (a mixed-race actor only slightly darker than Hopkins) played Hopkins' character as a young man in the same film.

Actually, Robert Heinlein was using and promoting the term "speculative fiction" before Ellison's writing career began - see, for example, his 1947 essay "On the Writing of Speculative Fiction."

Kishkas are intestines, so what the heck are you talking about?

"…the car she’s chosen for her son’s 16th birthday: a PT Cruiser. Used, if we can credit Skyler’s description of her plans…" But there haven't been new PT Cruisers since about a year ago when they ceased production; she probably couldn't have bought one new during 2011 even if she'd wanted to.

I'm an XTC fan since the late 1980s. My faves: English Settlement (either the shorter US or longer UK version), Mummer, Skylarking (is there a version that has both "Dear God" and "Mermaid Smiled"?), and Nonsuch. Very inventive music.

The first time I heard Squeeze's album Argybargy, I thought it must be a greatest-hits collection, every track was so strong. Still my favorite of theirs, during the Jools Holland-on-keyboards era.

I lived in Mpls. 1982-93 and own one Trip Shakespeare LP (Are You Shakespearienced?). I was and still am also a fan of a much more obscure band of that time and place: The Wallets. Very catchy and yet guitar-free music.

Look at the lawsuit again. Some of the claims are quite specific in terms of expression, for example, the "Master Timekeeper" in the story versus the "Senior Timekeeper" in the movie.

The lawsuit itself (www.scribd.com/doc/65128834… says that an actual Repent, Harlequin! script has been prepared by a third party, and that its value is lessened (obviously) if In Time is released. It also mentions two advance reviews of In Time, including one by Richard Roeper, that actually make the connection…

Yeah, but "what Lucas did" goes all the way back to the early 1980s when prints and home videos of Star Wars started to appear with "Episode IV: A New Hope" (so as to parallel the "Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back" opening crawl title first seen in theaters in 1980). Before then, the title of the 1977 movie was…

Did anyone else here have a chance to see the live performance that the original cast (Joel et al.) put on in the early '90s at the Uptown theater, Minneapolis? It was just as much fun as you'd imagine - although unfortunately I forget what movie they chose.

Ghostbusters II wasn't bad, just sort of …unnecessary. So would any new movie be, with the added detriment of the 22+ years since the last one - didn't Aykroyd already show with Blues Brothers 2000 that this sort of thing is not going to pay off?

With respect to "who outside of Maryland had ever heard of Chevy Chase?", that's also the name of the adjoining northern Washington DC neighborhood; the border is Chevy Chase Circle (along Connecticut Avenue). Chevy Chase Bank was the last large independent bank around here until Capital One bought it recently, a pity.

I was actually a fan of both Mr. Terrific and Captain Nice during their brief runs starting early 1967 - and even bought the Captain Nice novel by William Johnston, who also had several Get Smart novels published by that time. (I was 10 1/2.) Interesting that Captain Nice lived and died the same year Daniels was…

"…the idea that every episode could feature something wildly different, something wildly unexpected, was one that […] would eventually find its fullest flowering in the serialized dramas we enjoy today": Next time could you elaborate on this? What The Twilight Zone regularly provided was a "Reality isn't what you…