Does this deal with the notorious backstage camcorder footage that Al Goldstein kept playing on “Midnight Blue”? (Not that I even GOT Channel J on my TV... oh wait, no, I’ve never even HEARD of “Channel J”...)

I believe that with “Monsters Inc.” they insisted on recording Crystal and Goodman together.  These performances are so good and in sync that I’m really hoping that Hunter and Nelson were in the same room as well.  (The scene in the car with Samuel Jackson too.)

Couldn’t you have chosen a different photo?

Which also puts her into the very obscure category of “SNL Cast Members Nominated For Acting Oscars,” which also includes Murray, Aykroyd, Murphy, and fellow cast members Downey and Randy Quaid.

My absolute favorite Joan Cusack moment is from “In and Out,” where she’s drowning her sorrows in full bride regalia, having been dumped at the altar with the devastating news that the love of her life has just outed himself. Tom Selleck is sitting next to her and mumbles something about “I’ve just had a really bad…

May be, but allow me to remind you about “Gay Purr-ee,” in 1961, whose marketing was specifically targeted to tell you that, my god, Judy Garland and Robert Goulet are doing the voices of a CARTOON!!!

I always wondered why, from the very beginning, Woody wasn’t given a “cowboy” drawl, even with Hanks voicing the role.  Yet when his voice-string is pulled, he says things like “Yer mah faaav’rit dep-yew-tee!”  Is this so meta that Woody not only knows he’s a toy, but he’s also an ACTOR, PLAYING the role of a cowboy? …

Not at all, but Dave Grusin’s harpsichord-based score is an absolute delight (and to my mind, the best arrangement of the theme of all).

I was so much of a fan I had a chart where I’d write down the names of the “acts.”  And sometimes I had to write really fast.

What I loved were the two heroes always trying to out-do the other (“CO-2 laser”), which was a fresh concept. But the biggest reason I’d want a sequel was to make an actual U.N.C.L.E. movie, with the chrome-walled HQ behind the tailor shop, THRUSH, “Open Channel D,” the works (and acknowledging that the title was an…

Normally, I’d agree, but unless Biden picks Elizabeth Warren as VP, there’s no political reason for any of the three of them to stay. They STILL don’t have someone to regularly play Biden (might it have been Taran Killiam?). I personally think all three of them are invaluable (with a soft spot for the…

Kate, Cecily and Aidy all joined the cast in 2012.  If this was their last show, I will be very, very sad that they didn’t get the send-off they all deserve.

Along the same lines, I remember hearing an interview with Denzel on “Fresh Air” when he was promoting “The Great Debaters,” and he was so funny! And I realized... he hasn’t made a comedy since “Carbon Copy,” decades ago. And it made me wonder - does anyone offer him any, or is he just not interested? I think he’s…

I’m with you. I thought this was a beautifully ORCHESTRATED episode, adding one element of chaos after another. Inspired stuff.

It was important to me. It flashed me back to LiveAid and Amnesty’s Conspiracy of Hope, which was a good thing. The recurring theme of how essential the World Health Organization is to this crisis was a crucial message to spread, especially this week. What also struck me was how so many of the songs chosen had a new…

Inexplicably I had the soundtrack album when I was 16.  And it’s Marvin Hamlisch!

With all the spectacular drama of last week’s episode, I was surprised that no recapper or reviewer admired her piercing eyes and intense expression when she told Jimmy “Do Not Do This.” I thought she was (unsurprisingly) brilliant in that moment.

My favorite moment is Louis Jourdan’s line, “(Tsk, tsk, tsk...) Octopusssssy...”

Here’s an obscure reference, but it’s indelible to me. It’s an early 70s commercial that seems at first like it’s a cautionary “teen drinking” PSA. We see a bedroom door and there’s loud rock music playing. A knock at the door and we see a stern 50-year-old dad. He wants to talk to his son - “Would you turn that…

I think it’s accurate to say that Bonnie Raitt would not have the career she has today were it not for Hal Willner. He paired her with Was (Not Was) to perform “Baby Mine” for the glorious “Stay Awake” album (rightfully praised here), and Don Was produced “Nick of Time” shortly thereafter. History changed.