Also - c'mon, people - "Different Drum"!

Although Antenna TV and RTN are better than nothing (it's great to see episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents / The Alfred Hitchcock Hour that I haven't seen before), I agree with TvdW that this sort of thing (or its online equivalent) would be nice for older shows. It bums me out that Hill Street Blues never made it…

The movie Logan's Run set forth rules and then reneged on them. At the outset we are told onscreen that the "ritual of Carousel" offers a chance for rebirth for those who would otherwise die at age 30; later the hero learns that Carousel is a fake, that what's represented as rebirth is simply pyrotechnic death, just…

The web page for this series suggests that (given the photos seen there) they have hired actors to play Dick, Heinlein, Asimov, et al. How weird. I suppose we will have reenactments of them at their typewriters, etc.

My candidate for last-minute Oscars host:

But wouldn't Ratner still have said what he said, and discussed his sexual habits on satellite radio, even if the picture had opened well?

I actually first saw Lithgow before I ever knew who he was - I was living in center-city Philadelphia at the time and I came upon this film crew shooting a tall man in a sidewalk phone booth. Turned out it was Lithgow as the killer of women in Brian DePalma's Blow Out.

As Marc Haefele (the editor at Doubleday who handled Do Androids Dream…) says in a new interview over at Total Dick-Head:
"Cutting Wilbur Mercer out of the movie was like cutting the whale out of Moby Dick."

I can't believe no one has yet mentioned Lalo Schifrin's MANNIX theme, his great follow-up to his Mission: Impossible theme. The arrangement during the first few years was the best (the one at www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI9… has good sound quality).

That's not fair; "Jeffty Is Five" is a damn good story and it was first published in '77.

Plus: Music by Quincy Jones (not long after his excellent contributions to The Bill Cosby Show) AND a script by William Goldman.

Me too. But to me it all fits: By becoming a Jew Frank explicitly takes on Morris' sadness, which for Morris was so clearly part of his own Jewishness all throughout the book. And only with such a weight on him will Helen see him as worthy, eventually.

Good one. I actually saw this in the theater when it came out, my first Bond (I was 12). The real shame of it is, this is the movie that Diana Rigg left The Avengers to do.

Tapman Rose, “D.C.’s hottest law firm” - oh great, it's gonna be about lobbyists?

Ted Tally's play Terra Nova, about the doomed Antarctic expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott a hundred years ago, had an amazingly beautiful downer of an ending. The audience was so overwhelmed at the ending of the production I saw (at the now-defunct Cricket Theatre in Minneapolis) that it just sat stunned as the…

WHAT!? The ending of The Assistant is the last stage of Frank's redemption. Frank not only replaces his onetime victim Morris as the support of Morris' widow and daughter Helen, but also replaces him as a Jew - and perhaps as a result he will eventually have Helen's forgiveness as well. (Moreover, Frank has begun to…

The ending of Charles Webb's novel The Graduate has one important difference from the movie: Benjamin arrives at the church balcony and looks down to see the processional, therefore he rescues Elaine and escapes on the bus with her BEFORE she marries Carl Smith. I hope to find out someday (perhaps Buck Henry has…

That's "3 Women."

Aren't you confusing the ending of Godfather Part II with that of Godfather Part III  (with the ludicrous old-man makeup job)?

It's the one where Malcolm and his family go to Burning Man. Have seen the episode three times and it's funny each time.