DePalma just loves those shock endings. The one in Dressed to Kill (with that devastating music by Pino Donaggio) is at least as good.

The early-1980s TV movie Special Bulletin - specifically the moment when the bomb-defusing technicians in the boat in Charleston harbor are seconds away from zero, know they've failed, panic and run, just as the TV image of them expands and in a moment disappears.

After giving it some thought, I've concluded that's the only possible ending that achieves the subtlety of the book's ending. Well done. (Should be directly after Abendsen angrily asks Julia, "Germany and Japan lost the war?", in place of Julia's exit from the house afterward.)

But it's his own children (simply search for "Electric Shepherd Productions") who license all the adaptations.

OK, if you're a superfan please tell me something I'd like to know but don't (we only have the VHS and perhaps there's a special feature on the DVD that explains it): Why is an entirely different "That Thing You Do" song heard over the end credits? Not that we needed to hear the Adam Schlesinger song yet again at that…

I've owned the O'Brien book some 20 years. Chapter 1 as read by Cranston at the Audible site is quite good - generally dry and neutral, as needed to offset the content.

Huxley College versus Darwin College (football).

All this (deserved) praise should be not only for David Lee as written, but also for Zach Grenier; it's Grenier, not David Lee, who is the new "full-time cast member." Next time try to mention his name?

Thanks for the correction - I'd forgotten the Sarducci angle.

Actually it's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" - see photo of label at weeklytop40.wordpress.com/1…. Neither version of the line is in the song, of course.

Just yesterday I happened to hear Paul on the radio, in a (live?) concert from some arts public school in Queens, NY; he and band led off with "Eight Days a Week" and it seemed obvious why: The melody has a very limited range for a Beatles song, from A below middle C to F above middle C, i.e., a minor sixth. (Some…

I saw this in May 1980 on SNL (McCartney was the host), but it never made me interested in hearing the rest of the album. Lennon, however, liked the track, or so he says in the Playboy interview - "a good piece of work."

The big top-40 station where I lived as a preteen (Lehigh Valley, PA) played a version of "The Ballad of John and Yoko" that had each instance of "Christ!" snipped out. Whether the station made the edit itself, I never learned. I only discovered the proper version after I bought the single, a few weeks later.

The Lennon/Ono solo singles released while the Beatles were still together are as follows (the Ono titles are the B-sides):

Funniest thing Tony Hendra (and Melissa Manchester) ever did.

"He made some money doing TV-movie type stuff…"
The first of those I ever saw, although I didn't know who had directed it until years later, was an episode of the Universal series The Name of the Game during its final 1970-71 season on NBC; each episode was TV-movie length, 90 minutes, with one of three rotating stars.…

Also, Betty Thomas.

No slight intended to the work and career of Mr. Underwood, but you know what might have gotten me to watch this? If they'd cast Michael Ironside as Ironside.

The mid-'90s series Relativity might have lasted longer if the central couple were interesting at all. Their various family members and friends were so much more vital, especially with Richard Schiff, Adam Goldberg, Jane Adams, Lisa Edelstein, and Cliff DeYoung playing them.

I thought Lamb was the last album with Gabriel.