The headline "Third novel from…" should be revised to include "adult" or perhaps simply changed to "New novel from", because her YA books (such as my daughter's favorite novel, Elsewhere) are surely better known, at least at present. I trust it's not too late to make this change, given that those of us who have read…

Because this mentions the Elton John Band, does anyone here know whether "The Elton John Band" was ever credited on the label of any record besides the single "Philadelphia Freedom"?

Second season. The revised uniforms were third season.

Yeah, but he came back at least once as a ghost in that final season - which (justifiably) became an element in the "thirtysomething" satire ("missingsomething") in the late lamented Spy magazine later that year.

I enjoyed this, but it ought to have been mentioned that Rue McClanahan (along with Bea Arthur) was a regular on Maude.

Well, this was a shock, but the departure of McLean Stevenson from MASH in spring 1975 was an even bigger one. Henry Blake's death isn't shown, but the impact of the final scene where Radar reads the message about his plane being shot down to everyone in surgery was devastating; here it is 39 years later and I still…

I'm sure "asshole" was often used in NYPD Blue in the '90s, usually by Dennis Franz - and I even seem to recall it being omitted from the soundtrack (or at least the second syllable) in cable reruns around 10 years ago. Anyone else remember this?

Well, it was ultimately down to a choice between Brainerd and Fargo, so said one of the Coens at the time. I can certainly see why one might not want to title one's movie Brainerd.

I saw one - fall 1982 or 1983. From what I recall, they simply reshot scripts from the 1970-75 series.

Regardless of what one thinks of its characters or story, Days of Wine and Roses certainly is a damn good movie, with an excellent title song (music by Henry Mancini, who always did Blake Edwards' movies; lyric by Johnny Mercer) that remains one of the few deserving Best Song Oscar winners, as well as terrific…

OK, thanks for the further detail.

Mencken was not the villain in the 1966 original; Dr. Abner Sedgwick was. The show's book was rewritten for the 2010 Dallas revival by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who also did the major rewrite for Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark during its run. The Dallas version of It's a Bird (has anyone else staged it since?) was set in…

Saw the show in NYC in April 1966 (age 9) and still have the program. You will be happy to know that Cassidy (playing "Max Mencken," a columnist created for the musical) received top billing. I have no idea whether the writers - Newman & Benton, soon to be known for Bonnie & Clyde - had considered using Luthor or some…

Richard Benjamin might have had more of a movie career afterward if not for how completely dire two of his movies turned out to be - The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker and Portnoy's Complaint, both first-time (and in one case, last-time) directing efforts by the producer of The Graduate and the screenwriter of North…

The only thing I'd disagree with here (and I was just barely TV-aware when this show first ran, and may have seen an episode then) has to do with the statement "Mary Tyler Moore debuted in 1970 on a CBS that was eager to shed its image as a purveyor of lowest common denominator shows with offerings suited to the…

Also, "You're No Good" and "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" were covers - but I wasn't aware that "Different Drum" was; had Mike Nesmith recorded it himself? I've never heard of such a release.

Without Feathers is his second book. His first is Getting Even, equally funny but shorter because there are no plays in it. I've heard (but don't share) the opinion that the story "A Twenties Memory" in Getting Even is the source material for Midnight in Paris.

But it was terrible. Eventually they added an actor (Leslie Nielsen) to play the initially unseen Bracken, but it was too late to generate any audience interest.

With respect to the section beginning "And you’re not allowed to buzz in early. There are lights around the board that let you know when you can start":

Wait… has no one said Star Trek yet? I know it's a CBS property now, but that sort of thing has happened before. Abandon the present movie series and start fresh on TV where proper Trek belongs. I am so tired of threat-to-Earth stories (i.e., the plot of the last three Trek movies as well as the first, fourth, and…