Relativity might have lasted longer if the two leads (and/or their characters) weren't so darn uninteresting. My wife and I watched nearly the whole run, which I think was 18 episodes. That was my first exposure to Mr. Schiff, who was simply great as Barry Roth (father of the male lead). I'm so glad he named it as his…

The "split timeline" was ostensibly introduced to give freedom for writers to diverge from (alleged) canon. Consequently, the writers of the Abrams movies botched the opportunity this represented, in my opinion. Obviously the Abrams movies have sold a lot of tickets so far, but a few years from now they will be…

Midnight Run has proven to be very durable - a great screenplay can do wonders. One nice thing about it is that no one gets killed (unless you count De Niro shooting down the helicopter, whose occupants we never see anyway). And the scene with his ex-wife and daughter is actually poignant, something not often seen in…

That's Joseph Schindelman. The original illustrations are indeed wonderful.

If Fleming had lived through the 1960s instead of dying in 1964, would the post-Goldfinger Bond movies and Chitty have been more faithful to his books?

Well, the Chitty songs always sounded like Poppins cast-offs to me, and they probably were.

I have loathed the Chitty movie for 48 years now. Where can I go for more information on exactly who it was that decided to jettison everything in Fleming's book except for the car itself? (I'm even counting the main characters, who originally were a two-parent family of four named Pott. Potts is not Pott, Dick van…

It's such a well-told book that you don't even need to have seen any of the movie to appreciate it. (I don't know about the revised edition that came out in the late 1990s, which has a different and much longer subtitle, but the 1985 hardcover original has no photos.)

The Enforcer (the one that follows Magnum Force) is the one with Tyne Daly.

Are you named for the Theodore Sturgeon story "The Other Celia" by any chance? In any case, there are no commas in Truly Madly Deeply.

I like Big Night well enough, but the best movie about food is actually Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman.

Two points (I'm neither a huge Ellison fan nor a detractor):

Wouldn't presume to dispute your knowledge, but would add that whoever chose the photo knew its relevance to the CBS story: The line being spoken by Kirk (the final line of the episode, followed by the only freeze-frame they ever did, about half a second long) is "…a piece of OUR action!"

The first episode (the launch, etc.) was damn realistic, or so I thought when it premiered; I was 8.

Was there ever any other instance of a movie being re-edited/"special editioned" by its maker(s) that ended up reducing the running time versus the original? I've never heard of another case besides that of Blood Simple.

Unless you count the Hair-inspired songs performed by Charles Napier et al. in "The Way to Eden."

Was NOT.

Huh? There was no rating system when Dr. Strangelove was released.

If (like me) you first experienced 2001 in Cinerama, you're not likely to ever want to see it on a home system, no matter how large the screen. I've only ever seen it projected, generally in 70mm, since 1968; luckily I live near a theater (AFI Silver) that finds an excuse to show it every 2 years or so, and it's a…

In Lolita Sellers has one scene where his Quilty pretends to be heavily accented school psychologist Dr. Zempf, who visits Humbert at his home and convinces him to let Lo participate in the school play that Quilty is in charge of. It's a very Strangeloveian accent.