This. Anyone with a passing knowledge of modern American history can recite the fact that LBJ was an incredibly effective senator, likely the most effective majority leader in history.

If he won't cooperate, here's my Guttenberg anecdote from Three Men and a Baby.

If he's left out, Michael Gambon will get medieval on your ass.

He would return from dates and brag to his college roommates, "Ol' Jumbo sure got a workout tonight!"

He was the cemetery director who held the line in Curb Your Enthusiasm and had Larry's mother buried in the "special section" along with "villains, suicides, etc."

As I recall, Howard Stern replayed that clip once or twice.

Reggie did a Love Boat episode where he played himself as an old buddy of Isaac's from Oakland. He wanted to go incognito so he used a different name. Of course, he gradually realized that being anonymous isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Schiraldi had been a Met and I think that gave New York a mental edge knowing that they could get to him. Kevin Mitchell had even been his minor league roommate where they discussed how he'd pitch to him.

Another great Curb Your Enthusiasm cameo was when Larry is the limo driver for John McEnroe. First, he bugs him with all kinds of nonsense like asserting that ping-pong is tougher than tennis, but later they bond over their appreciation for a photo book about freaks.

For all the tremendous biographical work there is on Ali, I'd like to see someone attempt to write an account of Foreman's journey that culminated in one of the most random business success stories ever.

It all started when Samantha Bee tried to Americanize the channel, turning it from an al-Jazeero to an al-Jahero.

That was Kim Walker, who also died tragically young, of brain cancer.

She also starred in the underappreciated A Year in the Life, a miniseries that ended up becoming a series on NBC. It was a dramedy from a couple of the St. Elsewhere guys starring Richard Kiley as the widowed head of a suburban family. Sarah Jessica Parker played a supporting role.

There are also great stories about Elvis/Col. Tom Parker and Lew Wasserman.

In the lead up to the season when both debuted, Rollergames was hyped relentlessly. A pinball machine and a video game! Our dorm room held a half-irony, half-legit curiosity "Welcome Rollergames" party for its premiere.

Likewise the idea that the character was conceived/pitched as a one-shot or little more. The episode included a scene where the FBI guys come up with the idea of using her to infiltrate the family through Ade, and she set in motion a huge, multiseason plotline.

She was in the "Army of One" season finale of The Sopranos as the FBI agent who fake-bumps into Adriana and befriends her. Balk said the role evolved to become more of a regular thing and she wasn't interested in that, so the role was recast with Lola Glaudini.

Selina's from Maryland, so she'd probably overperform a bit in VA, which shares media markets with MD, and possibly FL due to MD ex-pats who moved down there.

Yes, but now there's a waterfront park in Weehawken. N.J., with spectacular views of Manhattan named after Alex.

Along with Dennis Perkins' Smoke entry, I'd add its companion-piece film from the same year, Blue in the Face. They use the sets and some of the characters from Smoke seemingly because they had a few days left over. In a different format, it makes some of the same points about Harvey Keitel's Brooklyn Cigar Co. and…