I did see the MASH finale. It was a disappointment, even more so because of the good stuff interspersed within it (specifically Charles and the Korean musicians). The problem was that CBS, knowing a goldmine when it saw one, requested a longer and longer episode so more ads could be sold; it ultimately ran two and a…

Well, I'm glad it was he who got to deliver one of the best closing lines of any episode teaser:

Hedlund was Dean Moriarty in that adaptation of On the Road that opened this past spring and went nowhere fast, although I gather that's not Hedlund's fault. I might catch it on home video in 5 or 10 years; I understand the cars, at least, are period-authentic.

Also, Guest does "Well-Intentioned Blues" on the Gold Turkey album (best of the Lampoon Radio Hour).

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great by writer-cartoonist Rick Meyerowitz (creator of the Mona Gorilla, etc.), list price $40, is now available for about $12 at B&N; I got mine a few weeks ago. If you were a fan in the 1970s, it's well worth it at that…

She was canned after half a season, 12 eposides, along with most of the players. When the show came back, Al Franken said on air, "No English-speaking person could have done a worse job than Jean."

I've heard this before - is there any documentation of it?

Well, speaking of editors, the very first credit of Interiors after the title is "Edited by Ralph Rosenblum, A.C.E." Quite an honor, and well earned.

The character name Dorn is mentioned repeatedly in the "Valley of the Shadow" episode review, but one looks in vain for the name of the actor who played both Dorn and Anan 7 in "A Taste of Armageddon" four years later.

RE: 3 to the
Just alphabetical order, is all…

Sturgeon
The Star Trek episode you're thinking of is an earlier one, Shore Leave. (Besides these two episodes, Sturgeon also wrote a story treatment that wasn't used, which became James Gunn's novel The Joy Machine.)

Pink Floyd
I'm so glad "Great Gig in the Sky" was mentioned here. Every time a classic-rock FM station around here suddenly changes to another format, I tell myself the call letters deserved to die, because not one of these stations in the last 15 years ever played "Great Gig" even though they did play every other…

Origins of "Ish" and "Em"
Students of elementary Hebrew would know that Ish is "man" and Em is essentially "mother"; another important character in the Tribe is Ish's friend Ezra (i.e., "helper"). I think Stewart chose the name Isherwood so that his hero could be simply Ish.
With respect to Heinlein: His early-1960s…