The movie, seriously? Even if all the segments had been as good as the final one (directed by George Miller with John Lithgow in the Shatner role), it wouldn't have been worth the lives of Jennifer Jason Leigh's dad and those two poor kids. See Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the Twilight Zone Case.

As much as I admire the fidelity to Jerome Bixby's short story "It's a Good Life" (the TV episode drops the italics), I loathe the introduction, in which our host explains the whole setup at the outset. By contrast, the story saves this until just before the end, to great effect:

Hell, I'd rather see The Fugitive 2. (No, U.S. Marshals doesn't count.)

"I'd suggest there's quite a difference between dozens of allegations out of nowhere and one allegation that first appeared in the middle of a horrible divorce."

Unfortunately Pleshette never got to be "very" old. (1937-2008)

"TOS is hard for beginners to digest." Maybe so (says this non-beginner), but it goes down easier than you might think because of its music. No music cue in any of the later series has become known in the world at large, whereas many people would recognize Gerald Fried's fight music from "Amok Time" if you played it…

I've read that they had wanted to bring back John Colicos as Kor for the head-Klingon role in "The Trouble with Tribbles" but he was unavailable, and the role (with a name change) instead went to William Campbell, the former General Trelane. Can't quite imagine Kor in a comedy episode, though…

C'mon - even if they'd hired Frakes a third time, what could he have done with such a script? It was ridiculous through and through. (And with Spiner receiving a story credit, intra-cast disagreements might have arisen.) I don't blame Baird per se.

I shall not allow your aberrations to jeopardize my position.

Anything not to have lens flares. (A plot not poorly ripped off from a previous Trek movie would be nice - likewise, it'd be nice to avoid "Threat to Earth" as the main crisis of the story, as has already been done in the 1979, 1986, 1996, 2002, etc., Trek movies.)

Kindle County should be on this list - it's where Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent takes place, as well as successor novels of his. (Alan Pakula's quite good Presumed Innocent movie used various locations around the country to represent Kindle - the courtroom was actually in Pittsburgh, I read once.)

I was in Virginia City, Nevada in September of last year, and there were vague indications of Sons of Anarchy connections here and there - can anyone explain? I've never seen the series.

I've heard of, but not read, the novel Blade Runner 2 - would it be a suitable basis for a sequel? (Actually it appears that there were two sequels to that novel as well, all three by K. W. Jeter, who was a friend of Dick's in the late 1970s/early '80s and is supposed to be the model for one of the characters in Valis.…

Dick wrote his own attempt at a screenplay for Ubik at the behest of a French director who was planning to film it in the 1970s (but didn't). Dick's screenplay was published posthumously in the 1980s and again a year or two ago (http://subterraneanpress.co….

Um, Aliens?

Very different generations, though. Keillor was born in 1942 whereas Joel Hodgson was a baby boomer.

I wonder what someone who had never heard the radio program would make of Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion movie (script by Keillor, but about a fictional version of the show).

Did I miss something in the last episode or two, or was Cary still supposed to continue keeping at least 30 feet away from Kalinda?

"…while SNL seems content to grant [Thompson] indefinite tenure, the show is stagnant with him on it." Not only is this true, it was true 5 or more years ago.

Having his name on The Day of the Dolphin must have been a humbling experience for Nichols in the mid-'70s. I saw a newspaper ad for it - this was the studio's second or third ad campaign trying (and failing) to get people to see the movie - with the following unforgettable statement in bold type, referring to George…