Whatever the faults of this week's episode, it was mercifully free of mentions of "Hillary" or any other aspects of the actual campaign for the Democratic nomination, the one in which the Iowa caucuses haven't happened yet. It's impossible (for this or any other fictional series) to refer to actual candidates other…

The Good Wife is filmed in NYC, so you've picked up on that without perhaps realizing it.

One of the damn-weirdest of Philip K. Dick novels (Counter-Clock World from the mid-1960s) takes place in a world where the direction of time has changed - it's called the Hobart Phase; the fictional Hobart theorized that this occurred every several billion years. Dead people come alive again and have to be rescued…

One of those trashy fun Tony Scott movies was made from Tarantino's own script: True Romance. Can this have been forgotten? (One of my favorite Saul Rubinek roles, too.)

"Damned for All Time."

As noted below by Joey Bloggs: it's Ian Gillan, not Gillian or Gilliam.

Yes, JC Superstar was a double LP before it was anything else. It also has the best performances (in my opinion) versus later recordings and the 1973 movie. The album got played more than once during my 10th-grade music theory class in 1970-71.

I agree that the MGM movies would have been a lot better if Zeppo had remained in the act and had taken the parts played by Allan Jones et al. - although, to be fair, no one on Earth could have made the "Tenement Symphony" from The Big Store (Tony Martin's big number) tolerable.

What? She's in the last scene of the movie, where (apparently) President Wagstaff, Pinky, and Baravelli all simultaneously marry her.

One of the great things about Horse Feathers is that you get each brother's individual versions of "Everyone Says I Love You." And they're all well-integrated into the story (even Harpo's two versions, whistled and plucked). You wouldn't want to get rid of Zeppo's and Chico's verses of the song, would you?

Excuse me? Didn't the first two films (The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers) have romantic musical subplots too? When the romantic lead is given a would-be hit song like "The Skies Will All Be Blue When My Dreams Come True," that's not exactly "downplaying" the romance.

YES YES YES. Having seen both of the first two movies in the theater (1977 and 1980), I can see why the Episode IV title was added retrospectively, but any discussion of the 1977 movie should avoid the latter-day subtitle unless absolutely necessary. Otherwise it just encourages the sort of person who would use the…

Moreover, in the novel, Frank and Juliana are not only ex-spouses, they have no scenes together; I found both to be interesting and sympathetic, actually. Whereas the series might as well have invented new character names for them.

This season reminds me of the third and final season of Star Trek, in terms of consistency of the main characters. No one cared anymore (for reasons documented long ago); cast, writers, and crew all knew the series was approaching its end and were thinking ahead to their future employment elsewhere.

For the full experience, you need the original edition with the red type (instead of the later, cheaper italic type) for Goldman's "interjections." Even the original mass-market paperback had the red type, back when publishers were still proud to do things like that.

Daniel Keyes' "Flowers for Algernon" was originally a short story (some would say a novelette) and is much stronger in that form, but it seems that only the novel gets taught in local high schools.

I reread Lonesome Dove every 5 years or so, and have no interest in any of the sequels and prequels (all of which McMurtry wrote later). LD is perfectly judged and complete as it is. There may be merit or interest in the later-written stories, but they're superfluous, just like the Back to the Future sequels versus…

It would have been green instead of yellow - as in the verse "black, white, green, red / can I take my friend to bed" from "All Together Now" - but "green" was only one syllable.

But if you think about it, a great many of Lennon's early solo records were preachy ("Instant Karma," "Give Peace a Chance," "Imagine," "Power to the People," the whole of Some Time in NYC, etc.). Goes with the territory.

Yes, she figures out he's malingering and tells him so.