They did an episode of Biography on John Belushi. God, how I miss the old, un-crappy A&E! Of course, there have also been the sundry more sensational E! True Hollywood Story style docs, though of course those tend to focus more upon drug use and debauchery and the fatal final days in LA.

Indeed, Wired is probably why there hasn’t been a decent documentary. It so thoroughly soured anybody who knew and liked/loved Belushi from talking openly and honestly about him.

I’m actually kind of looking forward to watching the Malcolm McDowell show from season six. The old Hill and Weingard book singled it out as a particular nadir for the show. It featured the notorious “Commie Hunting Season” sketch, the “Leather Weather Report,” and something called “Jack the Stripper,” a sketch so…

The sad yet predictable end result of people saying “write what you know” too often.

I really wish they'd release the dress rehearsals in full.

The Ebersol era people who weren’t Joe Piscopo get a bad rep, IMO. ‘84-’85 was one of the single most talented casts ever. 

SNL right now sort of reminds me of major league baseball - too many relievers. It’s hard now to imagine that back in the 70's, SNL essentially had three male and three female leads to cover everything (Garret Morris, sadly, was perpetually relegated to the role of “the black guy”). Some weeks there was a…

(Yeah, one of them is Susan Collins, who is, of course, deeply concerned.)

While it’s encouraging to see lots of people mourning Justice Ginsburg, and appreciating how consequential her replacement on the High Court will be for the lives of almost every American, I think we also need to step back and recognize something: Only about 39% of Americans can identify all three branches of…

So instead of it just being a space jitney, it BECAME the mission.

By 1986 I’m pretty sure NASA had more or less given up much hope that the shuttle program could pay for itself. It could not meet the demand of carrying commercial payloads into space frequently and cost effectively enough. As I recall, other nations, particularly the European Space Agency, were making major inroads…

There’s this great myth out there that children always react to sad news with fear, sadness, and confusion. Nobody in my class cried because of this. Nobody. Naturally, as most little boys are all sociopaths, we immediately began playing “Challenger” at recess, dreaming up new inventive ways for the shuttle to blow up…

Their viewers are loyal because in many markets CBS is on channel 2, which was the first channel on the dial, and most of their viewers are old enough to remember and/or have owned television sets that came with actual dials.

Clark Gable killed the T-shirt as an under garment.

Well, soon there will be another James Bond. And once all the hubub dies down about who that will be, once thing I sincerely hope is that they’ll “de-boot” the series and have Bond go back to being a guy who goes out on a different, largely unconnected mission each time, rather than a guy who sets out doing that but…

Well, there’s three basic categories of Bond film:

“This season they’re off in the distant future or whatever...”

It was as with all things centered around Generation X: Largely ignored due to the noise caused by the two generations bookending them.

Limp Bizkit didn’t go on at the first Woodstock, or Woodstock II, for that matter. So Woodstock 99 was already starting from way, way behind.

What could have been just a straight-up noir ultimately becomes a more complex statement about the causes of psychopathy.