As stza writes, "PKD never once describes what being high on Substance D is actually like" - which reminds me of what happens in his earlier novel Now Wait for Last Year when the drug JJ-180 has been altered so that its time-unbinding properties are eliminated and only its toxic and addictive properties remain. Given…

My main problem with A Funny Thing Happened is the omission of the majority of the songs from the stage version. Nonetheless, I like the movie's opening number "Comedy Tonight" quite a lot - the original 1962 Broadway cast recording of that number (also featuring Zero Mostel) is such a drag by comparison. And the…

The only Ochs album I know well is Tape from California, which evidently is the second of the A&M albums (following Pleasures of the Harbor). I like it as it is, but I can see where the arrangements might have been thought of at the time as too pretty or refined, or in some cases overwrought (such as the drums on the…

The 3-disc "Europe '72" album is pretty great if you don't feel like trying to obtain bootlegs.

Just to clarify for those too young to remember: Farrow and Allen didn't adopt her; Farrow and her former husband (Andre Previn) did, years earlier.

Um… Leyner was pleased with himself as long ago as freshman year in college, 1973-74. No doubt he had reason to be, but I wouldn't want to be like him.

Moreover, CBS passed on the Star Trek pilot and went with the Irwin Allen series Lost in Space instead.

Don't know whether the Zicree book mentions this, but the nurse in the morgue in "Twenty-Two" was Arline Sax, better known under a different name 6 years later as Spock's Vulcan bride T'Pring in the Star Trek episode "Amok Time" - Arlene Martel.

Pugs Malone: Since 1995 California has had two Jewish senators at once (Feinstein and Boxer).

Has anyone ever been able to explain how Barber and Menotti endured for decades as a couple despite Barber being an enormously superior composer?

Look, I know you're on a tight deadline and all, but it's Peter RIEGERT. Star of Local Hero, Crossing Delancey, Animal House, etc.

“Kruschev” is all wrong, whereas "Khrushchev" is good (and was the usual form in US journalism at the time), because the Cyrillic alphabet includes a character that has the sound "shch" (used in Russian as well as, I think, Ukrainian). Is this elite knowledge or something?

Also, in the series-ending Homicide TV movie on NBC in February 2000, the surgeon who treats Giardello is played by Ed Begley Jr. and has been alleged to be Dr. Ehrlich (Begley was unbilled and his character wasn't named).

That's correct - the most moving moment in the whole series, and possibly in all of medical drama history.

Impulse (1990) is what I remember her best for - directed by Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood's longtime lady friend and sometime co-star, whose directing career might have been longer except that Eastwood evidently was able to prevent it when they split up (and she sued him as a result).

Gonna crack my knuckles and jump for joy. 
Got a clean bill of health from Doctor McCoy.
       - Charles Napier

Since other commenters are mentioning actors, I thought it was interesting that almost all of Kai Winn's attributes (described in such loving detail by Tasha R. above) can also be ascribed to Louise Fletcher's other best-known character, Nurse Ratched - her Oscar-winning role from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I…

One possibly salient fact: The bylines of the newspaper articles on Travis' wall ("Taxi Driver Battles Gangsters," etc.) were the names of the original art director of  National Lampoon and his two associates, who worked on Lampoon projects throughout the 1970s.

Recommended: Irons' unabridged reading of Nabokov's Lolita, done around the time the movie came out.

I have been a fan of Kubrick's Lolita, and of Nabokov's, for many years. Any possible movie version must contend with not only the problem of who calls Dolly Haze "Lolita" as mentioned here, but the even greater problem of what Humbert himself is called. That is, other characters have to call him "Humbert" even though…