I’ve actually wondered if Rian Johnson thought of casting Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc because he’d already worked with Rachel in “The Brothers Bloom” and was acquainted with him.

These days I believe you have to have a two-season “apprenticeship” before you’re welcomed into the main cast - so probably not Dismukes, but certainly Bowen and Chloe.  There was, of course, that anomaly where Amy Poehler began her season as a featured player and got promoted after Christmas.

After revisiting Midnight Run this past week after Charles Grodin’s passing (hey! Another Vegas movie!), I went to IMDB to confirm that the studio wanted Cher for his role (they did). But part of the fun of going through the “trivia” section was discovering who else was being considered for it - the likes of Robin…

I believe that just about EVERY show - certainly the hits - has an archival recording of it, and they’re stored in the Lincoln Center Library of the Performing Arts.

That doesn’t bother me as much as the fact that the trailer seems to be telling me THE WHOLE DAMN MOVIE!!!

Honestly, this is a really silly question, as we have no idea what the characters are... however, what I’d hope for is the movie being stolen by an unappreciated and under-the-radar actor like Ana de Armas in the original movie.

I’m finally back on a computer where I can write comments. I unabashedly love this movie. And I was in the very first audience to see it, on January 15, 1982 at Radio City Music Hall (I can tell you the date because I bought the poster in the lobby and it’s hanging on my editing room wall). I remember it actually got…

Amen. Every single shot is exactly one second long. How they ever managed to put that together, in the order they did, is breathtaking. And did you ever see the Muppet version of it?

I watched the whole thing on Max, weekly, with no problems.

I also think this is one of the best jobs of ensemble casting in a feature I’ve ever seen.

The one that Miller wrote for Richard Dreyfuss and Laraine Newman was so good, my wife adapted it for an audition monologue and got jobs from it!

She might have been “one of the few women on the show’s writing staff,” but I would argue that she, Rosie Shuster, and Marilyn Suzanne Miller were as well-known by name by SNL aficionados as any male writer - and whose voices one could always tell from the mood and tone of a sketch.

Nasim Pedrad in a leading role is point enough for me.

Are we sure that Darrell Hammond does the cast intros live every week? His intonations are identical - “mmIKEYDAYYY!” [one word]; ANNdrew [tiny pause] disMUKES!!!”; KY-el [two syllables] MOONey!!” - and the one that gives it away every time: how he drops his voice half an octave to say “ego nwodimmm.”

Yeah, it wasn’t until Cheri&Molly&Ana that we had a three-for-three team that good to follow Jane&Laraine&Gilda.  And fortunately, it’s been Murderers’ Rows ever since.

I will be very surprised if Kathryn Hahn isn’t on that stage before the season’s over.

Janet, I’ve been a huge Mancini fan since childhood (really!) and it wasn’t until I really paid attention to the films he was scoring that I wished we had gotten actual “soundtrack” albums, instead of the “twelve songs, six on a side, with just re-recorded versions of the cues” that passed as “Original Soundtrack…

The theme kicks major ass when a loud band like John Zorn’s Naked City or Oranj Symphonette roars into it.

The recent film that really made me pay attention to his work was Alex of Venice, with Mary Elizabeth Winstead. He plays her father, dealing with early Alzheimers, and he’s cast in a local production of The Cherry Orchard. It’s a subtle, beautiful, devastating performance, and the under-seen movie (directed by Chris…

All you had to do is say “Veal Prince Orloff” and I went into a Proustian laughing fit.  “It DIES!”