I don't think she recorded or released it, though. I believe it was just an acoustic performance at a concert.

Indeed it is. In fact, I re-listened to it a few days ago. I wish "Break It Down Again" had a less chintzy arrangement (too much of a synth-orchestra sound), but other than that, the album is great.

I wonder if Mara knows that Katy Perry has covered Tears for Fears ("Head Over Heels," I believe).

I love Tears for Fears. Hell, I even love the "Tears for Fears" albums that are actually Roland Orzabal solo albums. And I love "Mad World." But yeah, I don't love the Gary Jules "Mad World" (even if Roland and Curt do, bless 'em). To me, this song exemplifies the nobheaded idea too many people have, that stripping a…

Doctor Who/Beatles trivia: "A Day in the Life" was an influence on how the regeneration of the Fifth to Sixth Doctors in The Caves of Androzani was rendered. Has anyone YouTubed a mash-up yet?

I disagree with a lot of what MacDonald says, but I still love the book. It's amazing how many sacred cows in the Beatles discography he slaughters - he seems to dismiss most of Lennon's post-"I Am the Walrus" stuff - but my admiration for his honesty and the detail of his research trumps the fact that I think he's…

I almost feel like the ending of Scarecrow is more heart-wrenching than Midnight Cowboy and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, because it seems more…grounded, if that's the right word. The other two movies go for death, which is high drama and, yeah, quantifiably worse for the characters…but Pacino's fate in Scarecrow I think…

Didn't Jeff Bridges score an Oscar nomination for Thunderbolt and Lightfoot? It was a pretty terrific performance. I mean, Clint always has a unique charisma, but Jeff Bridges pretty much ran away with the picture, which takes some doing. What's also amazing about the film is that it's not much at all like any film…

Speaking of Jeff Bridges… I recently watched Thunderbolt and Lightfoot for the first time (I went on a bit of a Michael Cimino kick), and I'm still undecided about whether or not that Midnight Cowboy-esque ending works. Good movie, though.

I hope to God Harry Nilsson wasn't wearing a slinky dress and curling up on a piano when he recorded his version.

To make the story even weirder, in the wake of Die Hard, the novel of The Detective was re-released, with Bruce Willis on the front cover:

* William Peter Blatty has stated that The Ninth Configuration is a sequel to The Exorcist. Blatty intended for Billy Cutshaw, the crazed ex-astronaut in The Ninth Configuration, to be read as the same astronaut threatened by Regan in The Exorcist.

"Ring-a-ding-ding, motherfucker!"

The comparison to Coppola reminds me of the Nosferatu audio commentary, when Norman Hill asks Herzog if he saw Coppola's Dracula, and Herzog dryly says something like, "I watched the first few minutes but it did not interest me…"

I'm still amazed that a film exists (1981's Venom) that stars three of cinema's greatest nutters - Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, and Nicol Williamson. Must've been hell on that set.

The Sheriff and Gisburne were the mid-80s Krang and Shredder of British TV. I'm sure their incessant bickering and sniping against each other was the reason for their increasing ineptitude and their inability to defeat their real enemies.

The first two seasons starred Michael Praed; the third season (which had an episode count equal to the first two seasons put together) starred Jason Connery. I agree that Praed was the better Robin (hell, I think most fans of the show wouldn't argue that point), but the Connery episodes still hold up quite well. It…

Dylan McDermott's Detective Jack Larsen sounds like an even bigger douchebag than "President of Laramie Cigarettes!" Jack Larson.

The MAD Magazine parody (Throbbin' Hood: Prince of Heaves) is really good. Written by Dick De Bartolo and drawn by Jack Davis, if memory serves. Skewered the film for Maid Marian going from kick-ass to helpless film, Costner's woeful accent, and the whole rape angle. And the Azeem character kept making scathing…

Long live the new goof!