dirtside: To take your point a bit further: A good argument can be made that the Enterprise as seen in the second and third movies - which is "20 years old" and obsolete in ST III, according to the Starfleet admiral who tells Kirk the ship is to be decommissioned - is just the TV-series ship rendered more expensively…

Exactly - If Spock’s adopted sister "will also reportedly play a part in his joining Starfleet" during Discovery, then how can he have risen to being first officer on Capt. Pike's Enterprise 13 years earlier than the first-season Kirk episodes, as established during the original series' only two-parter, "The…

I always enjoyed Heard's 1979 lead role in Head over Heels / Chilly Scenes of Winter opposite Mary Beth Hurt (one version has the happy ending of Ann Beattie's Chilly Scenes of Winter while the other crops that ending and leaves the couple apart, but I can never recall which is which - only that Head over Heels was…

Also Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street," 1978.

Small quibble about the "Jungleland" description: The sax solo begins at 3:55 and goes all the way to 6:07, in a track that lasts 9:37. What follows the solo is not merely "Springsteen's coda"; coda implies that the song proper is over, and some new material is offered to end with (such as the Beatles' "Hello Goodbye"…

Those that come quickly to mind:

It's not only "humor and substantive views" that won't translate - it's compositional things that have no visual equivalent. One is his use of recurring phrases ("As Bokonon invites us to sing along with him in his 53rd Calypso," for example).

Anyone familiar with any of Chopin's four Ballades should expose themselves to the four Scherzos. Personally I prefer Philippe Entremont's versions, but there are other good ones.

"Between Time and Timbuktu" (as noted up- or downthread).

One of the earliest attempts involved making a Vonnegut salad - "Between Time and Timbuktu," a public TV production from around 1971. It's unclear who wrote it (I once owned a print version, script and photos, and it merely said "based on materials created by" KV Jr.) but it has its fine moments, including a brief (as…

Not in The Stars My Destination. Robin Wednesbury maintains her furious anger and eventually unleashes it on the world, leading to the climactic scene at St. Pat's.

Breakfast of Champions was a huge hardcover best-seller in 1973 and a fitting means by which to retire the "Jr." (although latter-day editions are marred by the altered title-page spread, re-typeset to omit the Jr.).

Seems to me that your complaint about insufficient "focus" is balanced out by the first few pages, which are clearly the introduction to a fable about the distant past (when people "could not name even one of the fifty-three portals to the soul"). Fables aren't known for sharp character focus.

Maybe "Roderick Jaynes" really does exist…

The adaptation of City of Ember was unfortunately one of those movies that turns out to be much less than the sum of its parts - but one of the best of those parts (besides the lead, 14-year-old Saoirse Ronan) was Landau.

Dreyfuss and Hunter were very good together in an unlikely romance (he plays an abrasive type; she just got dumped by her fiancé) in Once Around.

The DVD includes a bonus selection from the late-1960s incarnation of the Folksmen, doing "Children of the Sun" (a clip from a TV variety show, using the video effects of the era). Worth seeking out.

As noted by my U.S. Representative, Jamie Raskin, a committee of Congress could alternatively make the determination, according to the amendment. His House bill introduced in April would appoint a commission of physicians, psychiatrists, and former high U.S. government officials. A clause in the amendment indicates…

Or "exciting".

An unfortunate result of her all-too-obvious plastic surgery, 10+ years ago.