"They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" was (justifiably) a nominee for an Emmy Award category that existed back then, Outstanding Single Program of the year (1971, wasn't it? I saw most of Night Gallery during its original run.) It was the only segment of Night Gallery that was longer than a half-hour - that is, it…

"They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar" was (justifiably) a nominee for an Emmy Award category that existed back then, Outstanding Single Program of the year (1971, wasn't it? I saw most of Night Gallery during its original run.) It was the only segment of Night Gallery that was longer than a half-hour - that is, it…

I'll have four fried chickens… and a tranya.

I'll have four fried chickens… and a tranya.

A good line, but that wasn't "Amok Time," it was the very early episode "The Naked Time" - in which (what turns out to be) an altered form of water spreads among the crew members and causes them to lose their inhibitions, such that Lt. Sulu fancies himself a swordsman, including the above exchange; Lt. Riley forces…

A good line, but that wasn't "Amok Time," it was the very early episode "The Naked Time" - in which (what turns out to be) an altered form of water spreads among the crew members and causes them to lose their inhibitions, such that Lt. Sulu fancies himself a swordsman, including the above exchange; Lt. Riley forces…

I don't have the patience to search the previous entries, but:

I don't have the patience to search the previous entries, but:

Of all things, I was reminded of How Can You Be in Two Places at Once when You're Not Anywhere at All the other night during a Boston Symphony performance at Tanglewood that concluded with Beethoven's Symphony no. 7. In the "approaching the Antelope Freeway" scene, a classical DJ announces a work by "Wolfgang……

Of all things, I was reminded of How Can You Be in Two Places at Once when You're Not Anywhere at All the other night during a Boston Symphony performance at Tanglewood that concluded with Beethoven's Symphony no. 7. In the "approaching the Antelope Freeway" scene, a classical DJ announces a work by "Wolfgang……

The remark by Mr. Dyess-Nugent about how the early Firesign Theatre LPs outshine any given TV episode of Monty Python indicates that he is ignoring, deliberately or otherwise, the equally good early Monty Python LPs. My own first exposure to Python was Another Monty Python Record, which includes much funnier versions…

The remark by Mr. Dyess-Nugent about how the early Firesign Theatre LPs outshine any given TV episode of Monty Python indicates that he is ignoring, deliberately or otherwise, the equally good early Monty Python LPs. My own first exposure to Python was Another Monty Python Record, which includes much funnier versions…

Harrison's career as an editor or co-editor of anthologies ought to be mentioned. The Harrison-edited Nova I, which I acquired as a preteen SF Book Club member, consisted of previously unpublished stories like Silverberg's "A Happy Day in 2381" (which eventually became the first chapter of The World Inside) and other…

Harrison's career as an editor or co-editor of anthologies ought to be mentioned. The Harrison-edited Nova I, which I acquired as a preteen SF Book Club member, consisted of previously unpublished stories like Silverberg's "A Happy Day in 2381" (which eventually became the first chapter of The World Inside) and other…

Reply to Col. Cliburn: My error; thanks for the correction.

Reply to Col. Cliburn: My error; thanks for the correction.

His collaborators in A Chorus Line (all now sadly deceased) certainly were, but no reason to therefore assume he was too. A Brooklyn-born Jewish college friend of mine (also now sadly deceased) spoke exactly the same way Hamlisch did, in a way that might be construed as effeminate, but he was straight nonetheless.

His collaborators in A Chorus Line (all now sadly deceased) certainly were, but no reason to therefore assume he was too. A Brooklyn-born Jewish college friend of mine (also now sadly deceased) spoke exactly the same way Hamlisch did, in a way that might be construed as effeminate, but he was straight nonetheless.

Somewhere I have an audio cassette from 1974 when The Mike Douglas Show had Groucho and Hamlisch as guests together (I taped it off the TV when I was a 17-year-old Marx Brothers fan). I suppose they performed a song or two together, but haven't played the tape in decades. However, I do recall Groucho saying Hamlisch…

Somewhere I have an audio cassette from 1974 when The Mike Douglas Show had Groucho and Hamlisch as guests together (I taped it off the TV when I was a 17-year-old Marx Brothers fan). I suppose they performed a song or two together, but haven't played the tape in decades. However, I do recall Groucho saying Hamlisch…