A dodecahedron, dammit! A dodecahedron!

All I can say is: No more wretched Motown covers, please!

They tried filming aliens, but it didn't work out. See Clarke's The Lost Worlds of 2001 and Jerome Agel's The Making of Kubrick's 2001 (which has a few photos of attempted aliens).

Yes, but Nabokov liked Kubrick's movie as its own thing. His reaction to seeing it for the first time in 1962 just before its release, from the introduction to his original screenplay (published in 1973): “I had discovered that Kubrick was a great director, that his Lolita was a first-rate film with magnificent…

When did Phil Dick ever say "it's a good story, just not my story" with regard to Blade Runner? He only ever got to view a reel of special effects shots in November 1981; these impressed him, but he never saw the whole movie - he died about three months before it was released.

The Crichton novel Sphere was awful, and no one (Levinson or anyone else) should have attempted to make a movie of it.

Not that it matters much, but he was only the co-director of Quick Change.

Trump was actually featured in several recent Sunday strips, physically crowding out the other candidates in the newspaper panel.

Is this the first time Larry David's done live TV since ABC's Fridays 35 years ago?

In early 1971 I happened to be watching the NBC series The Name of the Game, which was in its third and final season - I'd first seen it when it was the 8:30-10 p.m. lead-in to Star Trek two seasons earlier - and that evening's episode "LA 2017" must have been Spielberg's earliest foray into science fiction, although…

I'm afraid the only solution that would make us both happy - and maybe others as well - would be changing it back to Idlewild. Likewise, of course, change Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (bleh!!) back to plain Washington National Airport, and Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport back…

Ah, but the Torah never was written, it's always existed whole and is merely copied by scribes - or so some of my frumie neighbors probably believe. Try another example.

The writer should know better. It's analogous to writing about, for example, an airplane landing at Kennedy Airport in 1955. What it's called by many people today doesn't have anything to do with it. Star Wars was a huge worldwide phenomenon that played for a solid year, first-run (in part because of repeat viewings…

"…as plenty of the latter occurred during the filming of A New Hope"

Oh, wow, man. I haven't thought about Robin Trower since 1975.

It was early in his presidency; John Nance Garner became president.

Here's a brief passage from the novel about how Frank (whose character in the pilot is utterly different; no ex-wife Juliana, etc.) recalled things:

…the whole series [Get Smart] is tremendous fun…

I never thought much of ELO's songs for this movie - the big hit, and deservedly so, was "Magic," written and produced by John Farrar, who was also responsible for "Suspended in Time" (as well as Olivia's two new songs for Grease, "Hopelessly Devoted" and the duet "You're the One that I Want").

In the fall of 1979 I saw the trailer for Star Trek - the Motion Picture (the main feature was the botched Menachem Golan version of Isaac B. Singer's The Magician of Lublin starring Alan Arkin) and it certainly did the job of raising anticipation. The entire crew present and accounted for? Yep. Shiny new Enterprise?…