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I know many people here hate the miniseries of "The Stand", but I can't hear "Don't Dream It's Over" without thinking of the scene where two of the characters listen to it on a portable record player after the plague.

School House wasn't that unusual - it was a version of an old vaudeville routine, done by many acts including the Marx Brothers.

The literal predecessor, too. The DuMont-owned stations became Metromedia, which was bought by Fox as the core of the FOX network.

If there's a stretch where Trump isn't making the news and saying stupid things, the polls will begin to narrow.

He had a much-improved fundraising month last month. Still a bit behind Clinton, but not that much.

Those aren't support percentages, they're odds of winning. I wish these numbers were in October, because a lot can happen in three months.

I liked For Your Consideration well enough. It wasn't up to the standard of his earlier movies, but it had its moments.

There's a line between appreciating the necessity of the military and deifying the military, and I'd like to see us go back to it. Calling fallen members of the military terrorists because their ethnicity is different from yours is still scumbag territory, though.

The part I remember best is when news breaks that Hanks is dating a mermaid and Dody Goodman, playing his secretary, lists all the news organizations that called and adds at the end, "and Mrs. Paul."

Help! help! help! help!

So that's what Ed was always chuckling about!

You see this kind of masochism a lot, including by regular people in most any bar. I've never understood wanting to eat food that's painful to eat.

For those people, an action isn't good or bad in itself, it's good or bad depending on who took the action. In their minds, if "my side" took slaves at one time and I can show that "their side" also took them, then "my side" didn't do anything wrong.

The case by Viacom that they own certain aspects of Colbert's identity seems indefensible. It's as if NBC had tried to claim Jack Benny couldn't be stingy and vain after he went to CBS.

That is literally what they think. No exaggeration.

All I'm hearing is that the DNC wanted Hillary to win. Well, that isn't even news. We all knew that. Is there something in the emails that indicates they took action to help her win, because that's what would matter.

The Odd Couple and his Dick Van Dyke scripts weren't. The loud shit happened later.

His writing for The Dick Van Dyke Show and his production of The Odd Couple were his best TV accomplishments. Happy Days and everything that came after paled in comparison.

The series is already F&F in space - why wait for the next movie to judge? I didn't even know when I made the last post that a director from F&F was making the new movie, I was just judging based on the level the movies have been on.