Hey, the novel it was based on (by Richard Russo) is even better.

I thought Jeremy Irons was great in Reversal of Fortune and indeed should have won for it - I watched his acceptance speech on TV, the Oscars were on Monday nights then - even though I'm equally a fan of his work for Cronenberg.

Whoever chose the still photo, you've gone and gotten me interested in the series on the basis of the car alone, a '67 Pontiac Bonneville coupe. The one I drove at age 17 was unfortunately totaled in a hydroplaning chain-reaction crash on the way to college (those were the days of drum brakes all around plus bias-ply…

In the second half of ER's first season in 1995, Ironside played the temporary replacement for Dr. Morgenstern (William H. Macy). He got off what must have been one of the funniest lines in the whole series: He tells Mark Greene that he (Greene) is going to be the chief attending physician next year, and Anthony…

Regarding the ending of the first Superman movie, it's possible that Superman himself went back in time (rather than "reversing" time for the whole planet, which is what the effects show on screen). That is, if you regard the ending as simply the result of a poor artistic choice of how to show Superman going back in…

Minor point: Yes, "Merritt Butrick appeared as the son of James T. Kirk in two Star Trek movies," but one of them was already shot and released in May 1982 before Square Pegs began.

Over time I've come to downgrade the "All Good Things" series finale; it's fine as an opportunity for the actors to stretch, of course, but just too contrived as a story. I'd rather have seen the final scene (the poker game) expanded to fill the entire running time.

The Nexus wasn't "time travel" exactly - but the concept behind it was so knuckle-headed that by comparison every time-travel story Trek had done until then made perfect sense.

You're not the only one! The last good Star Wars movie was The Empire Strikes Back and even that had a few "off" moments, although no more so than The Wrath of Khan. (And yes, I'm old enough to have seen the latter in theaters without the superfluous "II" in the title on screen, and to know that the original release…

Thanks, Generic Poster. As someone who (for good or ill) can mentally play back William Windom's rendering of these lines in an instant, I laughed out loud (and needed to!) when I read this.

The live multi-disc LP Europe '72 is really, really good.

When you click on the Dead50 link, it says "nearly 20 years to the day of the last-ever Grateful Dead concert, which took place at the same venue." Performances since the death of Jerry Garcia that I've heard of were under the name The Dead, not The Grateful Dead, so this may be where the confusion arose.

The Man in the High Castle was pretty to watch, yes, with appropriate music. But Dick's novel has not one scene that takes place in the Nazi-occupied east. I can see why these scenes were added, and why "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" is now a (silent) film rather than a paperback novel, but it's difficult to tell why…

Hey, I'm just glad someone made a good movie of a Larry Brown novel. (Big Bad Love from 2001 doesn't really count as such.) Someone should do Fay next, if the right talent can be found.

I hadn't heard of an early fadeout before, but I wonder if that's worse than the careful editing of a song to remove a portion as if it were never there. Case in point: the Columbia 8-track of Bringing It All Back Home. I never knew the last verse of "It's All Right, Ma" (the one ending "It's life and life only")…

My dad voted for Nixon too (I was a 15-year-old McGovern volunteer myself). One of the most satisfying moments of my whole life was Nixon's resignation speech, which I watched with my dad while recording it (and us) on an audio cassette.

Hey, not fair. (My lawn is covered in snow anyway.)

You think that's bad? We had 8-track cartridges (there were no car cassette decks yet) and as a result I never knew the proper order of many albums until years later in college, because 8-tracks required balancing the length of four segments instead of two. Factory 8-track tapes would not only change song order;…

In fact the solipsism thing goes back to the first years of Heinlein's writing career, with the memorable pre-war short story "They."

In the original story (I haven't seen the movie yet), this is described and dealt with. Here's what Jane is told by the doctor after she gives birth via Caesarean: