What this article and The Hollywood Reporter doesn't mention is that Dave's nephew Jake is the son of Canadian rocker Ian Thomas, probably best known in the States for "Painted Ladies" (as well as the theme for Strange Brew). Still tragic no matter how you slice it, though.

Probably even weirder to think that it's closer to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead than Hamlet.

If you told me years ago that someone was making a Shakespeare adaptation featuring Father Lankester Merrin, J. Wellington Wimpy and Gold Leader, you'd have me in the theatre before you'd get a chance to mention that Bob and Doug McKenzie were in it as well.

LIKE A NUT

Addendum: the American syndicated version ran two minutes shorter than the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation version (this was before SCTV was picked up by NBC). The CBC asked the producers of SCTV if they could create something "Canadian" to fill that two minutes of extra content.

"(T)he story of two slaves [C-3PO and R2-D2] who go from owner to owner, witnessing their masters’ folly, the ultimate folly of man."

It's not unusual for tours to split out Western and Eastern Canada to different legs, but it's a little odd he's not playing Calgary.

Pass interference?

The sun, of course, was named after Mr. Robert Sun of Westerville, Ohio. The probe will be sent once NASA is allocated the necessary funding for correct postage.

In the '70s, Sambo's changed their mascot from a black to East Indian boy replete with turban, hence the inclusion of his sidekick, the tiger. I was a proud carrier of a Sambo's Birthday Club card for years, long before knowing what "Sambo" meant. In my 20s I accidentally broke my prized American flag-adorned coffee…

It has been extremely enjoyable watching Lynch and MacLachlan channel Jacques Tati in the Dougie Jones scenes.

♪ There's a voice that keeps on calling me
Dagobah, says the ghost of Ben Kenobi.
Every Tauntaun I take, will be on the mend,
Can't stay for long, slice off an arm and I'm gone again ♪

Soon the circle will be complete and we'll be around for civilization going out of business.

For a more complete story on the Wampa, why not contact the Canadian Wildlife Service in Ottawa.

Buy 'em now before they go into the TRaSh-80!

Yeah, I think there's potentially some meat to chew on with his story as a gateway into a UFO series.

J. Allen Hynek devised the "Close Encounters" classification system from which Steven Spielberg took the name for his movie. Hynek was also a technical advisor, and has a cameo - he's the bearded guy with the pipe watching the Mothership at the Devil's Tower site.

"Ezekiel saw the wheel. Here is the wheel he said he saw."

I edited a doc with previously unseen or rarely-seen-in-the-West photographs and footage of the Nanking Massacre. For the only time in my life, daydrinking was a professional necessity.

It seems pretty clear that it was for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.