Another director/star marriage that crashed after a not-good movie: Revolutionary Road directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kate Winslet (and L. DiCaprio). The novel is great but I can see why the various earlier attempts to adapt it never got off the ground, considering how the movie turned out; I don't know whether…

Another director/star marriage that crashed after a not-good movie: Revolutionary Road directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kate Winslet (and L. DiCaprio). The novel is great but I can see why the various earlier attempts to adapt it never got off the ground, considering how the movie turned out; I don't know whether…

Sure it may have made money for Paramount, but I never want to see even a minute of it again in my life and I'm sorry I ever paid to see it. What a bad taste it left. Tucker a few years earlier was a much more solid movie. I suppose Puzo gets some of the blame; he was producing novels around this time (The Fourth K)…

Sure it may have made money for Paramount, but I never want to see even a minute of it again in my life and I'm sorry I ever paid to see it. What a bad taste it left. Tucker a few years earlier was a much more solid movie. I suppose Puzo gets some of the blame; he was producing novels around this time (The Fourth K)…

I own the Stephen Bach book Final Cut and it's so entertaining that one need not have seen the movie to enjoy it. As far as I know, it's the only such book to have been written by someone who was a studio executive at the time of filming. I especially like the scene where he and his colleagues are recovering from the…

I own the Stephen Bach book Final Cut and it's so entertaining that one need not have seen the movie to enjoy it. As far as I know, it's the only such book to have been written by someone who was a studio executive at the time of filming. I especially like the scene where he and his colleagues are recovering from the…

Here's another: Al Pacino and Diane Keaton in The Godfather Part III; they had been dating but broke up during filming (per her memoir Then Again). Not that they were the central reason for that botch of a movie.

Here's another: Al Pacino and Diane Keaton in The Godfather Part III; they had been dating but broke up during filming (per her memoir Then Again). Not that they were the central reason for that botch of a movie.

So Nicks has "recorded two new songs with" Buckingham - wow, those two have been together a long time, professionally at least. I have their Buckingham Nicks LP, almost 40 years old now. I wonder what sort of career they'd have had if they'd continued as a duo.

So Nicks has "recorded two new songs with" Buckingham - wow, those two have been together a long time, professionally at least. I have their Buckingham Nicks LP, almost 40 years old now. I wonder what sort of career they'd have had if they'd continued as a duo.

Franz Schubert. The final piano sonata, in B-flat major, written in 1828 (the year of his death, at age 31) and published 10 years later. One of the best piano works ever written; it's got everything.

Franz Schubert. The final piano sonata, in B-flat major, written in 1828 (the year of his death, at age 31) and published 10 years later. One of the best piano works ever written; it's got everything.

If I’m in a car and suddenly I hear Pink Floyd’s “Dogs,” or Cat Stevens’ “Foreigner Suite,” or Stevie Wonder’s “Do I Do”…

If I’m in a car and suddenly I hear Pink Floyd’s “Dogs,” or Cat Stevens’ “Foreigner Suite,” or Stevie Wonder’s “Do I Do”…

The street-sign title sequence of Spike Lee's Jungle Fever, paired with an original song by Stevie Wonder, is perhaps better than the movie that follows - which wasn't actually bad, but goes off on too many tangents.

The street-sign title sequence of Spike Lee's Jungle Fever, paired with an original song by Stevie Wonder, is perhaps better than the movie that follows - which wasn't actually bad, but goes off on too many tangents.

Dammit, no. He could never be the Gully at the point where the story begins, the one who so naturally reverts to gutter lingo at later points in the story; Gully was designated "the stereotypical Common Man" in his official records as a crewman on the Nomad. I have long admired Braugher (heck, we still have an episode…

Dammit, no. He could never be the Gully at the point where the story begins, the one who so naturally reverts to gutter lingo at later points in the story; Gully was designated "the stereotypical Common Man" in his official records as a crewman on the Nomad. I have long admired Braugher (heck, we still have an episode…

The last series called Last Resort was also canceled quickly, a half-hour CBS sitcom in the fall of 1979 concerning (you guessed it) workers at a resort.

The last series called Last Resort was also canceled quickly, a half-hour CBS sitcom in the fall of 1979 concerning (you guessed it) workers at a resort.