Hammer's later series "Journey to the Unknown" (which didn't last long) is a brilliantly macabre anthology.

"Police Story" was pretty successful without a host.

Spielberg's "Amazing Stories" was a flaming disaster.

I point out that the line "Beat me whip me make me right bad checks" (or something very close) appears in the film "Eating Raoul", released in 1982 … so Dees wasn't evenj original in his schlock.

In 1990 Amy Grant sued Marvel Comics for "sampling" that image of her as the basis for the cover of "Doctor Strange" #15 {http://goodcomics.comicbook…}; she didn't like the "association with the occult"…

Having met the man (at SF conventions and through mutual friends), i always found him likable and generally polite and reasonable-seeming.

An Atlanta-based writer was hired to write more books following after the original Ballairs books…

Retired right-wing talk radio host Neal Boortz, whose father was an Air Force Colonel, told the story of what happened after his dad appeared on "The Price is Right" and won everything, including a high-end ski boat.

How could you not mention  "Mornington Crescent" from "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"?

I have gotten some pretty snarky responses to comments (reviews on Amazon, etc.) in which i pointed out that an author has violated the logic of their own story in a way that invalidates the whole plot (Diamonds found in an Appalachian coal mine as the McGuffin?  An alternate history in which the world concentrated…

"The Thing" isn't exactly a "loose remake" of the James Arness film; it's actually a much more accurate version of the original story using the more sensationalistic title of the earlier film.

Coraline did, too.

Hill Street Blues left several subplots hanging in its run - beginning with the dramatic murder of a cop onscreen early in the first season - throat slashed by a hooker - that was never even mentioned again.  OTOH, HSB did keep the running gag of Belker and the thief he arrested at least once per season (who always…

Get Crazy?
No mention of what may be his most unlikely role - playing megarocker Reggie Wanker in Alan Arkush's 1983 "Get Crazy"?

Patriot Games
Good summary. Except that it's a summary of the book, not the movie, which was changed *significantly*.

Spielberg hasn't made a *good* film since "Jaws".

Playing yourself as someone you don't like very much
Both Brendan Fraser ("Loony Tunes Back in Action") and the Governator ("The Last Action Hero") had a great time playing their real-life selves as complete prats when meeting themselves as the hero of the movie.