The last I heard, the bank he dealt with in Minneapolis had been made the executor of his estate, at the request of the heirs. I would imagine that deals are going to have to be made, as the taxes on the estate are huge, and he didn't shelter anything.

I would imagine that as Prince had no will, his estate is being taxed at the maximum, and the heirs need money to pay the taxes ASAP, is the reason this may be happening.

On a recent Tosh.O, Tosh was talking about his grandfather's VHS collection, and said, "See if your granddad has any of those Dorf tapes, then steal them for yourself. You'll thank me."

If memory serves, it was Conway who encouraged both Ernie Anderson and Jack Riley to leave Cleveland for California, and helped them get their first jobs there.

There was a lot of incredible comedic talent that came out of the Cleveland area, back in the day. Jim Backus, Jack Riley, best known as "Mr. Carlin" from the Bob Newhart show, who also worked with Ernie Anderson, and Tonight Show writer and comic actor, Pat McCormick.

Manimal will live in my mind, if only from a quote from an article that Merrill Markoe wrote about the upcoming television season in Rolling Stone in the early/mid' 80's. "Misfits Of Science is proof positive that NBC will keep remaking Manimal until they get it right."

Wasn't Hammerstein's quote in that book on why he'd booked them something like, "I've hired the best talent, and they've flopped, so now I'm trying the worst."

When I was a kid, I remember that the 50th Anniversary show ran for two hours each night for a week. I don't remember the 60th, but I'm pretty sure the 75th anniversary show ran for 3 hours. So I take it the 100th anniversary show will run an hour.

On the upside, Riesbeck's has quite a craft beer selection.

Didn't Spy Magazine used to have a feature called "Mutual Logrolling In Our Time?"

Times must have gotten hard for Tom. His dealership advertised in the Wheeling,WV/Steubenville,OH TV market for years. The sad thing was, that if anyone from the Upper Ohio Valley was in the mood to drive to Richmond,IN to buy an RV, they were out of luck, as the ad stated they were closed on Sundays.

A friend of mine was in charge of the Poultry Farm where we attended college, as part of our labor requirement. He always told me, "Never, ever eat a McNugget." When Chickens came to the end of their egg laying career, a company that processed McNuggets for McDonald's would buy up the elderly birds. And I've taken…

There's also an HBO documentary where Dick Cavett interviewed Mel, in a similar format to the Conan interview that is worth checking out as well.

They would make the list as well. I was always impressed at how people would lose their crap when I suggested that anyone was a better songwriter than Lennon, and they really got mad when I started going through my list.

Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Warren Zevon, J.D. Souther, Randy Newman, David Byrne, Sting, Nick Lowe, John Prine, Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, Mick Jagger/Keith Richards. That's a baker's dozen.

Sorry, I'm just amazed that I can like one part of a comedy team so much, and despise the other with an equal intensity. I think it's called "Dean & Jerry Syndrome."

At least the chipmunks didn't whine about being in their own movie. Bob Goldthwait had a bit back in the day about doing the Police Academy movies, and at least he was funny about admitting that, "I'm a fucking whore!"

Don't feel bad. In my college years in the 1980's, I would get screamed at for pointing out at least 10 artists that wrote much, much better songs than Lennon during the 1970's.

As a Daffy uber fan, I agree with you 100% when it comes to Daffy being able to do anything right.

While watching Live By Night yesterday, I was stuck by how much Chris Cooper's character looked like McConnell, gone to seed.