This sounds even more like the ravings of a pathological liar than Drew Fortune's answer in the article. But I believe you! I hope to see you on Antiques Roadshow in a couple of decades, because unlike a lot of autographs, that one's got to be quite rare.

I have a couple I'm proud of, but it's my mom who has the really good ones: Bobby Darin and Richard Harris.

As a society, we really need to bring unsexy back.

I'm assuming, for the benefit of the doubt, that devo doesn't understand the history of that adjective as applied to historically underrepresented populations, and absorbed it into his lexicon without really understanding what it's about. He might have meant superciliousness or condescension and mistakenly thought it…

You're claiming something that isn't correct: that I said anything about a person's professional life justifying their private monstrosities. I do not, in any way, believe that art/cooking/politics/etc justifies immoral behavior. I hope that's clear.

Without this comment, I would think that Colonel Kilgore was an ironic avatar.

I have to disagree with you here. If we found out that Leonardo da Vinci did something unspeakable, something egregious even by the looser standards of Renaissance-era morality, I don't think it would serve the trajectory of the human experience to remove the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, or to ditch the imagery of The…

I think you can really start and end with Rumours.

As a lover of Robert Mitchum, I'm curious: what is your favorite movie with him?

An odd mix: I watched "Places in the Heart" (1984) for which Sally Field won an Oscar. I like her, but it's not a very meaty or demanding role, so I would have voted differently. As a movie it makes some annoying choices, but it wears its super-sweetness well, and I enjoyed it. John Malkovich was superb, and…

The Coen brothers. I don't see everything they come out with, and I haven't liked everything they've made, but I always pay very close attention because so many of their movies are among my favorites.

Those are, or were, scary as hell. I loved them.

That comment about kids wanting nothing to do with kaleidoscopes was exactly my thought when I saw his clown name. It's such an outdated form of entertainment, like the circuses with which clowns are associated.

I'm looking forward to the Vacation reboot after this reboot. Reboots only get better and better, right?

Three books, but only one (the first, The Book of Atrus) was any good. It's probably the one you're remembering.

I hope he never dies, but if he does, I want them to show nothing but Theodoric of York sketches.

I watched "Paris, Texas" and it was very good. I liked how it looked, sounded, and felt like a spaghetti Western, a noir, "Kramer v Kramer," and "Tender Mercies" all at once, but with a unique premise that I can't recall having seen elsewhere.

M*A*S*H, though it had been over for more than a decade. It wasn't the only thing that made me pursue history as a career and that influenced my political leanings, but it was a big one. I did a puppet show on the Korean War for a fifth grade history fair.

I concur. Have a Stay Puft s'more, CM.

Are you saying that Dr. McCoy is an audience surrogate? I hadn't thought of him as such, but maybe so at the time, particularly given his racist diatribes.