Lou gave up drugs/drinking somewhere between 1980's GROWING UP IN PUBLIC and 1982's THE BLUE MASK, so I wonder if this album, which came in between, was the moment of clarity that made him realize he'd truly hit bottom.

He did a hilarious cameo (as an idiotic version of himself) in a Celebrity Jeopardy sketch a couple of years ago.  He really needs to come back and host, I agree.

Well, you can count how many times Emily Litella showed up in the first couple of seasons when you talk of SNL running characters into the ground, but…

But the real question is, what's the worse product: the Hankerciser or the Cornballer?

My favorite VJ was always Kevin Seal, remember him?  He rubbed a lot of people the wrong way with his squinty eyes and his goofy perma-smirk and his overall lost-Murray-brother demeanor, which is exactly what I liked about him; he wasn't the slightest bit cool or hip (in rock 'n' roll/youth culture terms, anyway), and…

Oh, for sure she was.  Letterman himself has said "we haven't had a good idea since she left."

Sorkin is massively obsessed with Gilbert & Sullivan - there's a whole episode of The West Wing that hinges on that obsession and he drops references to them in most of his work.  Sometimes it's funny - as when an arrogant character reels off a list of his accomplishments (another Sorkin trademark) and winds it up…

They were together for a long time, but never married.  (Rossellini was married to Scorsese a few years earlier, during that dark, out-of-control period of his life around the RAGING BULL era.  Bet that was… interesting.)

Aw, c'mon, I really doubt she was fucking David Lynch.  As deeply, wonderfully weird as he is, he seems to me probably the last director who'd pull that casting couch shit.  Could be mistaken, of course, but he seems way too decent and ethical for that.

I dunno, I think there's stuff worth defending about them, dumbass myth-legacy that's clung to them all these years aside.  At this point, they're so overrated they're underrated.