I saw E.T. in the theater and never again since. I'm pretty sure this is mostly because John Williams' music for it was just… mediocre, relative to the standards he himself had previously set with Star Wars, Superman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Empire Strikes Back, and the Lost in Space TV themes…

I saw E.T. in the theater and never again since. I'm pretty sure this is mostly because John Williams' music for it was just… mediocre, relative to the standards he himself had previously set with Star Wars, Superman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Empire Strikes Back, and the Lost in Space TV themes…

Joe's Apartment and Stand by Me are the only O'Connell movies I own, not counting some old videotaped episodes of Crossing Jordan. Still, the guy has had more of a career than a lot of actors, many just as talented.

Joe's Apartment and Stand by Me are the only O'Connell movies I own, not counting some old videotaped episodes of Crossing Jordan. Still, the guy has had more of a career than a lot of actors, many just as talented.

I like cars myself, but one man's "unassailable" is another's "astonishingly obvious."

I like cars myself, but one man's "unassailable" is another's "astonishingly obvious."

I've been waiting a long time for the Simon & Garfunkel "How Terribly Strange to Be Seventy" reunion tour - they'd better announce it soon.

I've been waiting a long time for the Simon & Garfunkel "How Terribly Strange to Be Seventy" reunion tour - they'd better announce it soon.

I wonder how that collaboration with Levy (who wrote nearly all those "sprawling" lyrics you complain about) happened. I never liked the resulting album, but I should mention that by the time of the Rolling Thunder Revue (which I saw twice in Massachusetts, November '75) the song "Hurricane" was hugely better than the…

I wonder how that collaboration with Levy (who wrote nearly all those "sprawling" lyrics you complain about) happened. I never liked the resulting album, but I should mention that by the time of the Rolling Thunder Revue (which I saw twice in Massachusetts, November '75) the song "Hurricane" was hugely better than the…

I hate to nitpick without getting paid for it, except in special circumstances, but:

I hate to nitpick without getting paid for it, except in special circumstances, but:

To recommend Dylan without mentioning his recent 100-episode XM radio series Theme Time Radio Hour is somewhat negligent. (DylanRadio.com has episodes daily.) Ol' Bob is a truly amusing radio host and excellent selector of other people's records - frankly it's a lot easier to listen to him speak than sing these days.

To recommend Dylan without mentioning his recent 100-episode XM radio series Theme Time Radio Hour is somewhat negligent. (DylanRadio.com has episodes daily.) Ol' Bob is a truly amusing radio host and excellent selector of other people's records - frankly it's a lot easier to listen to him speak than sing these days.

How so? The lyrics of that one are kind of, mm, obscure…

How so? The lyrics of that one are kind of, mm, obscure…

So it was "50 years ago today (give or take a few months)" that "Love Me Do" was released? Quite a bit more than a few, I think. The release date in the UK, on the Parlophone label, was October 5, 1962. Couldn't you have held this item until then?

So it was "50 years ago today (give or take a few months)" that "Love Me Do" was released? Quite a bit more than a few, I think. The release date in the UK, on the Parlophone label, was October 5, 1962. Couldn't you have held this item until then?

Here's one that's both ephemeral AND a film: the Cinerama version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which could be seen in certain theaters in 1968 but (as far as I know) not since then. I haven't researched this, but I presume that there are no prints in good enough shape to exhibit, even if there were working projectors.…

Here's one that's both ephemeral AND a film: the Cinerama version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which could be seen in certain theaters in 1968 but (as far as I know) not since then. I haven't researched this, but I presume that there are no prints in good enough shape to exhibit, even if there were working projectors.…