Jessica Chastain guested in S1 of Veronica Mars, as the title character of the episode "The Girl Next Door."

@avclub-989ca0fe3ec0682c7349593ff5feb4a4:disqus : I saw a screencast recording of that production, which is good because even though the video exists and is awesome, it's never getting released on DVD.

That's the first person I thought of, which is embarrassing because I used to love The Valley of Fear.

Young Joseph Stalin was pretty hot.

Art imitates Christine O'Donnell's life.

Oddly, Hart was the name of the student in The Paper Chase ….

Did you not see Olympus Has Fallen, then?

I'm pretty sure her character from As the World Turns is still alive … somewhere …

I never thought I'd ever get a chance to say this but … Pretty Little Liars did it better.

Number of cast members of Home Improvement with hyphens in their names: 0

Speaking of Charlie Kaufman, Pope's poem about Eloise and Abelard was the source of the title "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."

You know how Dzhokhar got these scars?

Not so cheap: http://harvardmagazine.com/…

Nope, just Andrea True Connection ripper-offers.

You all are demanding without understanding.

Yeah, Ellen Raskin was another highly underrated children's author.  Shame she died so young, with one book that reads like a rough draft, one that's entertaining but with a weirdly downbeat ending, one that's juvenile but tons of fun, and one flat-out masterpiece.

Gives new meaning to "It was an inside job"

"Pearl Harbor necklace"

http://www.damninteresting….

Yeah, the Niagara episode would have been a good finale.  "Mafia," the one directly after that, is when I had the classic this-show-has-jumped sensation.