he was best friends with Paul Thomas Anderson's late father Ernie. They were comedy partners in Cleveland. Some of their stuff is up on YouTube.

I'm from Tennessee and after 8th grade graduation we took a class camping trip driving all across the western states and every morning our chaperones woke us up at 6 am with side 2 of "He Thinks He's Ray Stevens" which featured what could only be described as a bluegrass parody of The Monkees theme song (I mean…

Defintiely, although, at the time, I'm not even sure if it was that savvy a career move, but he knew it was a good move artistically. In 1997, Soderbergh was (by his own admission) something of a has-been (at age 34) who was perceived as a filmmaker who never made good on the promise of his debut. It was really both…

Were those allegations ever proven? Definitely seems that there were some scenes that would have been difficult to achieve without at least putting the animal in danger.

Clooney is definitely the exception, although if he hadn't had Out of Sight come along, he might be doing H&R Block ads, too. He definitely didn't fit into the action movie leading man mold.

Peggy's older than Hillary and was a trailblazer in her field, ergo Peggy should be *Hillary's* idol.

It almost seems like there's a rule — the more you seem like a leading man/movie star on the small screen, the less likely it will actually work out that way on the big screen.

She's perfect looking

A couple of the albums between Green and Buckingham/Nicks, the Spencer/Kirwan/Welch years (particularly Bare Trees and Future Games) are very good.

Sundance Channel is much the same. Just change the damn name already!

Yeah, any innuendo in The College Years was pretty tame. The humor and content was more like a TGIF show (which probably shared the same audience as SBTB) than an adult sitcom.

I definitely agree re: West. I think he was never really appreciated as a comic actor because he read more as a cheesy actor who wasn't in on the joke. Almost like he was TOO GOOD at his job. Seems like Conan (and later Seth MacFarlane) is the only person who realized he was actually a brilliant performer.

I wonder what they had planned to do with it? An adult-geared spin-off of a kid's sitcom? I could see this working with something like Kenan and Kel maybe NOW, 15 years later, but this came on the heels of Clarissa Explains It All. What an oddity.

They were still drunk on their Seinfeld/Friends/Frasier success and those reruns probably beat anything else in the time slot.

Thanks!

This is much better than NBC's "If you haven't seen it, it's new to you!" gimmick in the late '90s/early '00s.

I think I read somewhere that Conan thinks West is the greatest comedic actor ever or something similar. Amazing he and Smigel convinced people to let him star in a pilot.

Does anyone remember the Nickelodeon Clarissa special that was clearly a repurposed pilot for a new series? She was living in a big city, I assume Chicago or NYC, and working in a news room, I'm guessing as an intern. I remember her having some troubles on the subway and an old timey editor (or maybe seasoned…

Jerry O'Connell as Herman!

Yeah, I wasn't big on Listen Up Philip though it had its moments, but Queen of Earth was a real gem.