Gorshin died in 2005. Lost to history, indeed.

Gorshin died in 2005. Lost to history, indeed.

Darn right. In many ways it's an improvement over the first one. Different writer as well (Paul Rudnick). The loss of Raul Julia still hurts, especially since his last film was the awful video-game Street Fighter adaptation.

Darn right. In many ways it's an improvement over the first one. Different writer as well (Paul Rudnick). The loss of Raul Julia still hurts, especially since his last film was the awful video-game Street Fighter adaptation.

Of all the people whose names were attached to various adaptations that thankfully never got made, the one I'm most glad never got his hands on it was John Landis (as mentioned at the end of Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the Twilight Zone Case, the 1988 book about the aftermath of the on-set deaths during the…

Of all the people whose names were attached to various adaptations that thankfully never got made, the one I'm most glad never got his hands on it was John Landis (as mentioned at the end of Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the Twilight Zone Case, the 1988 book about the aftermath of the on-set deaths during the…

The Give My Regards to Broad Street version of "Silly Love Songs" is no less wretched than the original from the '70s, but it is different. McCartney attempted to give it some added musical interest (modulating upward for the instrumental break, etc.). Unfortunately the lyrics are unchanged.

The Give My Regards to Broad Street version of "Silly Love Songs" is no less wretched than the original from the '70s, but it is different. McCartney attempted to give it some added musical interest (modulating upward for the instrumental break, etc.). Unfortunately the lyrics are unchanged.

Even McCartney himself came to realize that "Silly Love Songs" wasn't up to snuff. When he re-recorded it for the movie Give My Regards to Broad Street (which generated the hit "No More Lonely Nights") in the mid-1980s, he tried to make "Silly Love Songs" musically more interesting (modulation upward to the…

Even McCartney himself came to realize that "Silly Love Songs" wasn't up to snuff. When he re-recorded it for the movie Give My Regards to Broad Street (which generated the hit "No More Lonely Nights") in the mid-1980s, he tried to make "Silly Love Songs" musically more interesting (modulation upward to the…

FYI: The credited director for the episode where Brody shows the detectives his documentary was Barbara Kopple, an actual documentary director who had previously won the Academy Award twice.

FYI: The credited director for the episode where Brody shows the detectives his documentary was Barbara Kopple, an actual documentary director who had previously won the Academy Award twice.

The songs in Victor/Victoria were indeed incredibly lame (especially one of Robert Preston's numbers), so much so that I'm surprised it became a semi-successful stage musical later on. The composer (Henry Mancini) and lyricist (Leslie Bricusse, who usually had worked with Anthony Newley previously, e.g., "What Kind of…

The songs in Victor/Victoria were indeed incredibly lame (especially one of Robert Preston's numbers), so much so that I'm surprised it became a semi-successful stage musical later on. The composer (Henry Mancini) and lyricist (Leslie Bricusse, who usually had worked with Anthony Newley previously, e.g., "What Kind of…

The book came out in the summer of 1974, while Nixon was still president, and covers events through the end of 1973, including the firing of Special Prosecutor Cox and the resignation of Attorney General Richardson for refusing to do so. The last event shown in the film is much earlier: Nixon's 1973 second inaugural,…

For many years the ubiquitous title in thrift stores was the novelization of Jaws 2. This remains a mystery.

The Lonely Guy, "adapted" from Bruce Jay Friedman's The Lonely Guy's Book of Life.

He was exactly right as Biesenthal the English literature professor, sardonic during the first session of his very exclusive graduate seminar but sympathetic afterward, in John Schlesinger's version of William Goldman's novel Marathon Man (scripted by Goldman). I found the novel un-rereadable decades ago but the movie…

He was exactly right as Biesenthal the English literature professor, sardonic during the first session of his very exclusive graduate seminar but sympathetic afterward, in John Schlesinger's version of William Goldman's novel Marathon Man (scripted by Goldman). I found the novel un-rereadable decades ago but the movie…

The great advantage of Night Gallery was that the format allowed the freedom to go longer than a half-hour but less than a full hour (except during its half-hour-only final season). They took advantage of it only once, though, with the 40-minute slot given to one of Serling's best scripts, "They're Tearing Down Tim…