I think you may be thinking of I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood (originally on HBO?).

Yup, no question mark. The title usually appears correctly in other A.V. Club posts.

Go-tye? Got-ya? Goaty? An entertainer should have an unambiguous name, says I.

Sanctuary on the last pages of the original 1967 novel (which I read many years ago) is a rocket ship that takes off to places unknown, although there were sequel novels by one or both of the original authors that may explore where it went.

Well, not exactly - the entity known on Earth as Jack the Ripper had been inhabiting the body of the character played by Fiedler - Mr. Hengist, a Rigelian living on planet Argelius 2 (OK, I had to look up the "2" but the rest I admit to already knowing), and it was in that body that he met his demise, transported…

None of which would make "Glamour Profession" special to me without those wild slinky chord changes; the whole harmonic structure keeps you off balance, never seems to settle into defining a particular key for more than a few measures. It's (to put it briefly) disco made musically interesting.

MarcInGA: The exchange was in the first episode of The Tony Randall Show.

The studio should have kept the title it had during production: Starship Dave. Would have brought in more business, because it's a funny title in itself, whereas its release title is sleep-inducing.

Blaming "Hollywood" for the awful Murphy movies of the mid-1980s to early '90s seems absurd, as those movies were produced by none other than Eddie Murphy Productions (certainly The Golden Child was).

"Rose Darling" is a goodie.

Glad to hear that "Here at the Western World" hasn't sunk into complete obscurity. I only knew it from their first double-album Greatest Hits package, which I had on 8-track (it goes up through Aja, represented by "Peg" and "Josie").

I like it too, but isn't the beginning of each verse almost identical to Dylan's "Queen Jane Approximately"?

Alive in America has gotten almost no attention here but is a good album to own - selections from the Steely Dan tours of the mid-'90s, including one new song (from Becker's solo album and sung by him, "Book of Liars") and a totally revamped, slower "Reeling In the Years" plus an excellent "Green Earrings," etc. After…

Even better is that there are 12 tracks on it…

I'm familiar with that essay, and it does raise a few interesting points, but I still wish the book hadn't been published in (essentially) draft form. It's rather unrewarding to slog through the book as published.

Among many other things that Robert Heinlein happened to predict correctly, one of them is (possibly) the idea of "classic rock." I cannot, unfortunately, recommend the novel in which it appears: I Will Fear No Evil (1970). But here's the usage:

I think this "different experience" is partly attributable to stereo versus mono, as a factor separate from frequency range, noise, and other differences between 1960s AM and classic-rock FM. When I made the first of my two (to date) iTunes purchases, I sampled both mono and stereo versions of the Neon Philharmonic's…

Small correction: "…when All In The Family came to the airwaves in the late 1970s…" The show premiered in January 1971 (on CBS).

Anything less cheesy than his Phil Spector-produced album Death of a Ladies' Man is OK by me.

Candy lived to be 43.