I never saw the second one but credit also has to be given to Betty Thomas, director of the first one.

My only disappointment here is that Dennis Farina's performance as Jimmy Serrano in Midnight Run isn't mentioned. Serrano's Chicago mobster dominates the movie's entire backstory through other characters' dialogue, even when he himself isn't on screen.

I think Wussy meant "every other episode" and not "the second episode to be broadcast of each series".

no, actually the AV Club and its commentariat will be the only thing to survive - although it'll be a lot more cumbersome without a functioning internet.

It's difficult for a period piece to later be regarded as "of its time" (i.e., the time of the film's release), and almost all the Coen brothers films are explicitly set in the past, including Fargo. Besides their first two, only two others (so far) are set in the present day: Intolerable Cruelty (which didn't…

Almost 12 hours and your headline still says "has lead" - consider yourselves admonished.

Just for the sake of accuracy, the song (by Bacharach & David) was written for the movie, but that version was sung by Dusty Springfield. The Sergio Mendes / Brasil '66 version was a radio hit in 1968, a full year after the release of the movie.

There was yet another effort to create a Paramount TV network in the mid-1970s, with a new Star Trek series (involving Roddenberry and the whole original cast except Nimoy) as its centerpiece. Sets were built, story treatments purchased, an actor hired to play the (100% Vulcan) replacement for the first officer role,…

He outlived rock itself.

The best Disney live-action film will always be Son of Flubber. There, I've said it.

My favorite Lithgow line reading from early 3rd Rock: "Let's drive fast and eat cheese!" No one can do unhinged glee as well.

That postage-due stamp is itself a hoot. As if a sports car (apparently a 1968-82 Corvette) would appear on a stamp with a 1930s-era design.

Please do not imply that all Jews are "getting more conservative." There are some religious (orthodox) who supported Trump for one or two specific reasons, and there are many of us who are reform or unaffiliated, and quite liberal.

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That's Ex-Pennsylvania Governor. Since the early 1970s when Pennsylvania law changed to allow governors to serve two terms, Corbett was the only incumbent to run for a second term and lose (to a Democrat, by a very substantial margin, in 2014).

I can't find the episode online, but the old NPR series Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz hosted Dave Grusin once, maybe 15-20 years ago, and he did a great solo piano version of "It Might Be You" quite unlike the horribly dated early-'80s arrangements heard throughout Tootsie. I like the song itself - and especially the…

Never saw her in that, but she had a number of interesting TV roles - including a few leads in short-lived series and a recurring role as the blind psychiatrist on The Rockford Files.

That was only part of his trilogy of SF films. The others I recall were the 2001 ("Twenty-oh-one") theme, the Also Sprach Zarathustra fanfare done as a vocal ("Daaaah… Daaaaaaah… " etc.) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind:

I live in the DC area and have subscribed to the Post since about 1997. I don't know that the Post would have been (or would have appeared to be) supporting the 2003 Iraq invasion and its supposed justification if Mrs. Graham had still been alive, but she had died a few years earlier. For months after the U.S.…

Wait, wouldn't the first four lessons be simply banjo lessons?