Playing Arnold Rothstein in Eight Men Out, Lerner gives my favorite single-word line reading ever.

He's an intelligent, engaging person (and still alive!) For a while, he had a little public TV show where he blended Jewish issues and entertainment stories, with a bunch of guests like Red Buttons.

I'm that age and this was still in the old-TV era. Even if we had cable, it was mostly over-run movies, Andy Griffith reruns and MTV. Something odd and different with a little naughtiness was compelling, even if it was broad and repetitive.

I'm glad you liked it, but quiet, subtle thoughtpieces like that just don't do it for me.

"It Don't Come Easy" is credited to Ringo officially and "Photograph" is a dual credit.

On VH1's Storytellers, Ringo talks about how George wanted to make the third verse of "It Don't Come Easy" about God. Ringo said that was more George's thing and maybe he could come up something that fit Ringo's persona better.

Jimmy Van Heusen wrote the music and it wasn't about Nancy Sinatra, but Frank thought it was and they wisely went with it.

Tony Banta's service in Vietnam led a couple of funny Taxi exchanges with Rev. Jim, and Jeff, the assistant dispatcher.

Almost as funny as the "65 grand" line is that it was prompted by Gary's assumption that he needs to remind Selina of Catherine's major.

They missed an opportunity by not slipping Grimace into an episode of Carnivale.

"A……..B……uh…..C?……G……uh?……..Helllooooooo."

Taking on Manson? He doesn't care whose toes he steps on!

REG! The glorious Catherine Mary Stewart.

I was hoping that Josh Groban was making a musical based on the under-appreciated Eighties teen sci-fi film, Night of the Comet.

She was Meadow's prospective mother-in-law on the final Sopranos episode.

The casting was a bit on the nose using the actual city of Barcelona to portray itself in the exterior scenes. They could have made a real statement by bringing Bilbao in to play the role.

I've always liked how it captures both the mulish American obliviousness that can seem so jarring abroad, and the reflexive anti-Americanism that stems from the same kind of willful ignorance. Yes, Americans are hamburger-chomping troglodytes, but a lot of people come here and see that if you get beyond the crass…

That's nice to hear. Jessica Campbell was great both in Freaks and Geeks and Election.

"And there was Rosario Dawson" kinda says it all.

That was "Noshing and Moshing," where the garage door revelations come to a head. There were also some tremendous moments in that like when Neal sees his older brother with Lindsay and the final conversation between Neal and his mother played by the amazing Amy Aquino.