I actually rather liked the crowded season 5 with its largest-ever number of starring actors, including Mimi Kuzyk and Ken Olin; it was entertaining even if they couldn't keep all the balls in the air at the same time.

I would enjoy seeing the first three seasons or so (up through Maria Bello's year) again, but I can see why ER reruns don't enjoy a regular slot on some cable channel or other. The later years were really a drag, on average, and the attempts at absurdity (such as a second helicopter dropping on poor Dr. Romano) didn't…

Tambor's role (and some of the feel of the series, too) always seemed to me to be prefigured by …And Justice for All, the 1979 Al Pacino movie set in Baltimore and co-written by Barry Levinson before he became a director. In that movie the mix of tragedy and comedy was more awkward and sometimes jarring, in part…

Because the theme music (by Henry Mancini) is one of his late-career efforts and would put nearly all modern-day potential viewers to sleep. [Not that he didn't write lots of terrific stuff earlier - the Peter Gunn theme, "Moon River" and "Days of Wine and Roses" (both with lyrics by Johnny Mercer), and both of the…

For decades I've owned Are You Shakespearienced? and would recommend it as an intro to the band; it's got "Diane," "Two Wheeler Four Wheeler," and (as alluded to by others here) "Toolmaster of Brainerd."

"The film is most satisfying, most moving, when it’s at its most narratively vague…"

I own Joe in hardcover, have since it came out. I hadn't heard about this adaptation until today and hope it's decent. Apparently the character of Fay doesn't appear in it (at least not according to IMDB); she leaves home (and the story) and turns up as the central character in a later novel by Brown, which begins…

"I'm FREE! I'm FREE!" Klugman could do glee so well perhaps because he could do pathos and compassion so well (see his Twilight Zone appearances, or his Hungerford role in Days of Wine and Roses). That's not exactly what I'm trying to say but it comes close.

I thought Gondry was supposed to be working on an adaptation of Ubik? No teenagers in that story, except for the one in cold-pak.

"I enjoyed The Tetherballs of Bougainville far more than the other Leyners I've read (My Cousin, Et Tu, Tooth Imprints, holy shit I've read more Leyner than I thought)"…

I didn't mean to imply "not interesting anymore" - just that, if his work is still interesting, it's not interesting in a way discernibly different from his writing of 20 years ago.

Um, that's "Fall Out"; the series finale, mind-boggling as it is, has nothing to do with atomic weaponry.

Night Gallery (which I watched on NBC while in high school) is unfortunately broadcast only in a syndication package that not only ruins a number of segments by cutting or padding, but gloms them together with half-hours of the unrelated Universal series The Sixth Sense starring Gary Collins. The latter were given Nigh…

With regard to the Leyner book: What the heck is "psyiloscybal"? I assume it's a (misspelled) term for being under the influence of psilocybin.

The Blues Brothers was diverting, I guess, but it's never make me laugh even once - it just about defines "overwrought" with respect to comedy - whereas Wayne's World has, many times. (Pity that all home video versions lose the punch of the "No 'Stairway to Heaven' " sign-in-the-guitar-shop joke because Wayne only got…

I saw Looney Tunes: Back in Action in November 2003 when it came out, and since then I've never been able to figure out whether Steve Martin (in his only truly wigged-out performance in the last two decades or so, as the head of Acme Corp.) was or wasn't funny in it.

I wasn't paying careful attention last night, but where is Zeek going to work on his 1965 Pontiac GTO project car at the new place? Or will it be sold? (Or will he die and be buried in it?)

There's a good amount of detail about this in Steven Bach's book Final Cut (about the making of Heaven's Gate); Bach was a top production exec at United Artists, and he describes a trip to Europe to visit a very frail but enthusiastic Sellers and his wife to discuss the proposed film. Sellers died soon after.

Among other pretty but useless items I have a framed Pink Panther animation cel from the 1970s - maybe it'll be worth something now.

Thanks for naming the actor. Almost without exception he's referred to only as "David Lee" in these reviews and responses, unlike Baranski et al.