Actually it has to be seen IN CINERAMA to be appreciated. I was 11 and I've never been the same since.

Isn't Manhattan Murder Mystery simply an elaborated version of a subplot excised during the production of Annie Hall? I believe that's why its writing credits are Allen & Brickman. Fortuitous that Keaton could be in it for that reason alone.

Midnight in Paris and Shadows and Fog were both apparent outgrowths (the latter more obviously) of material in his collections Getting Even and Without Feathers, respectively. Perhaps he ought to adapt funnier selections such as "The Kugelmass Episode." Those books will make you laugh.

She had three very brief scenes in Manhattan, right? A total of a minute or two of screen time. Maybe the script was still in flux at the time her scenes were shot.

More accurate to say their manager Robert Stigwood was responsible; he was just coming off of two projects that did well, Saturday Night Fever and Grease (new title song by Barry Gibb), and probably was suffering from a bit o' hubris.

I arrived in Minneapolis in 1982 just as Prince (then unknown to me) was putting the finishing touches on 1999. Eleven years later I moved back east with a 3-inch floppy with the glyph on the label (sent to newspapers everywhere that year, including the alt-weekly whose editorial staff I was leaving); several hours'…

Precisely.

I think if there's an autopsy, the result will be "We can't figure out why he lived this long."

I know what you're saying, but I've always been influenced by the original pen-and-ink illustrations by Joseph Schindelman (one is at http://mineolaamerican.com/… in the hardcover my folks bought me in 1964. Wonka is a little old guy with a goatee.

Ed Asner as Lou Grant. I'm so glad he got to play Lou for 7 years in a comedy and then 5 more in an hour-long drama (which did have some lighter moments).

Both Wilder and Depp are all wrong; they're too young, by decades. There is no point to the story unless (as in the original book) Willy Wonka is elderly; that's why he wants to give the factory to Charlie after he proves to be the surviving/meritorious golden ticket holder.

"…his award-winning tale of Guy Montag’s journey from fireman to incendiary…"

I'd watch an entire series based on "Leopard Skin Pill-Box Hat."

Their spoiler for Tootsie is pretty amusing.

What of the Grateful Dead's Europe '72? It's the only Dead album I even own.

Not all the altered lyrics are "better" - I understand the advantage of changing "America" so it's not all sung by the girls, but some of the substitute lines are clunkers: "Here you are free and you have pride" etc. Also at the end of the "Jet Song," the change from "…on the whole buggin' street / on the whole, ever,…

Isn't Sondheim responsible for some of the watered-down language himself? A specific example is the "Tonight" quintet: In the movie, Anita sings "He'll walk in hot and tired, poor dear / Don't matter if he's tired, as long as he's here" instead of the much more clever (and suggestive) original, "He'll walk in hot and…

Absolutely, seek it out if you're interested in behind-the-scenes material, going back to 1965 when it was still known as "Journey Beyond the Stars"; there are lots of photos, including elements not used in the movie, such as abandoned attempts at showing "aliens" (unfortunately all photos are black-and-white, but…

One reason Star Wars (and its successors) is "fast" instead of "slow" is because it flouts basic physics. Hence the Abrams-directed Star Trek and Star Wars movies and their overreliance on putting cool effects before logic. For example, in Star Wars you have ships with wings making banked turns in space where there's…

Springfield's movie Hard to Hold came out the same week as Prince's Purple Rain. What a different world it would be if the former were a hit instead of the latter.