It was only well lit so we the audience could see it. (Perhaps they tried to shoot the scene in very low light and someone at CBS rejected the result?)

As I wrote on some previous thread: They should have used a fictional presidential race or not gone in that direction at all. Mixing names of real politicians into the story (and, worse, the dialogue) was simply a bad idea.

Reminds me of the third and final season of Star Trek in 1968-69, another show where the cast and crew had already started looking for other work. The majority of episodes were written (and directed) by newcomers. The result was lots of (unfunny) silliness, lots of character behavior that would be obviously…

Are the Rockford TV movies from the 1990s actually available to be seen? (I only ever caught one or two first-run; they were on CBS.)

A movie based on the book alone would be very short.

You're welcome. The original was the cover of one of the first issues I received when I started subscribing, in high school, so I feel obliged to defend it - much like I'm compelled to write things like "It was originally called just 'Star Wars,' goddammit!"

The actual January 1973 magazine cover line is "If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog." In an NBC special more than 10 years ago, covering the early years of Saturday Night Live and its National Lampoon origins, Chevy Chase was quoted saying "O'Donoghue was the managing editor of the Lampoon when they…

By any chance, are Shary Flenniken or M. K. Brown included? What about Gahan Wilson?

Haven't seen the doc but I own the book of the same title, a large-format hardcover edited by Lampoon artist Rick Meyerowitz. For someone like me who subscribed 1973-75, it's a nice item to own; excellent paper quality and better-than-original reproductions.

It's good to hear that the work of Mr. Mark C. Leyner can be described as "peak," as he's just turned 60. This is encouraging to those of us who are rapidly approaching that age ourselves.

Don't forget this is the same mass audience that accepted "Kessel run in 12 parsecs" in 1977.

Not knowing whether Pegg has any background as a writer, I would only say that the writer of Nemesis (the 2002 picture that ended the TNG movie series) was the first of these longtime fans who got the chance to write a Trek screenplay, and I so loathed the result that I won't even mention his name here.

First on my list of films that I think are great but have absolutely no desire to see ever again.

I can't speak for The Big Sleep and Casablanca, but I know Blade Runner was a box-office disappointment in summer 1982. "Got there in the end" perhaps means that eventually - years later, in some cases - everyone who still had any interest got to see a variant version they liked, but did the movie ever make back its…

Maybe Prince is on his way to becoming the anti-Glenn Gould? In the midst of a successful piano career in the 1960s, Gould suddenly gave up live performance entirely, focusing on recording only - not just his own playing, but CBC radio documentaries such as "The Idea of North." Perhaps Prince is going in the other…

Don't know, but the same font was used for the opening titles of ABC's Movie of the Week (made-for-TV movies) during the same years.

Even the early tracks benefited from his input, with regard to song structure. For example, it was his suggestion that "She Loves You" begin with the chorus, not the first verse.

Forgot Stu Sutcliffe.

What, they did something after Four Way Street?!!

I was going to add that myself.