Speaking of poetry, Humbert's poem summarizing the whole story so far (written during the year or two after Lo abandons him for Quilty) is for me one of the most memorable parts of the novel - although I needed Alfred Appel's The Annotated Lolita (I've owned my copy since the 1970s and highly recommend it) to help me…

But the "heart sunglasses" are never shown in the movie! They're only used in the advertising photo of Sue Lyon.

I love Mason in the role, even though he's much older than the Humbert of the novel (Mason was born in 1909). And everyone who says Winters is great as Charlotte is absolutely correct.

There was a really good adaptation of his short story "Big Blonde," starring Sally Kellerman, on PBS several decades ago; I still remember her singing "Bye Bye Blackbird" in it.

"Both films close with him murdering Quilty (an event foreshadowed in their opening scenes)…" But the 1962 version begins with the entire murder scene, with the rest of the story as a flashback - hardly a mere foreshadowing. It's also the main element of Nabokov's screenplay (which he published in the early 1970s,…

"No, not ANOTHER modulation!!…."

I really like her emphasis on learning experiences, as when she talks about the film-directing project she's preparing for.

I couldn't get into either Dhalgren or Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, but I would recommend Babel-17 (from Delany's early years - 1966).

I've been seeing and collecting Coen brothers movies since the late 1980s, and it seems to me that most of them (perhaps more than 75%) involve a kidnapping.

A fact I'm neither ashamed nor proud of: The only Star Trek novel I've ever read is James Blish's Spock Must Die! (Bantam 1970), purchased off a supermarket paperback rack. From spring 1969 until the advent of the animated series in fall 1973, SMD! was the only widely available new Trek story.

Faked!? In the early years of ER (that other "prestige" show with JM as a regular) it wasn't that hard to see a "dead" person taking a shallow breath while lying on a gurney. Josh Charles, by contrast, was very professionally dead two years ago. Commendably dead, even.

Tessa was Dick's fifth and last wife, but not his widow, as stated. (The linked article simply calls her his wife.) He was unmarried for the last 5-6 years of his life, and had one child with each of the last three wives.

The novel I reread the most often is Now Wait for Last Year. Might be worth a try as a first novel.

My favorite of the story collections is one that came out during his lifetime, The Best of Philip K. Dick (part of Ballantine's Best Of series that covered 10 or 15 different authors). It includes stories up through 1974, plus an introduction by John Brunner and very entertaining afterword by Dick (with notes on the…

Actually Valis was written after the posthumously published Radio Free Albemuth, not the other way around. Dick's agent's response to the Albemuth manuscript led him to completely rewrite the whole thing, which was published as Valis in 1981.

If I wanted a De Lorean with a modern drivetrain - which is how these would have to be produced; De Lorean never built its own drivetrains - I would purchase an existing one and modify it, rather than spend what the "new" DMC will charge.

The AP wire story says this at the end: "Biographical material in this story was written by The Associated Press' late Hollywood correspondent Bob Thomas." The guy even outlived his obituary writer.

Another excellent Random Roles - although I was mystified by how "kibitz" (a verb) could have ended up in the transcript as "kibbutz" (definitely not a verb).

Don't know about Janney, but Lahti also has a live-performance stage career, and has had for a long time. Twenty-five years ago I saw her as the lead in the original production of The Heidi Chronicles in NYC and she was great. (Also in the cast: Tony Shalhoub - who later married another Heidi, Brooke Adams - and…

As a single-camera sitcom, right?