CBS will air their remake of Fail Safe live on April 9. (I can't seem to find any good articles on it to link to; here's another story from January.) Quoth this blurb: "The TV play will mark the first live broadcast of a full-length drama on network television since the live 'Playhouse 90' productions that aired on CBS from 1956 until 1960, a CBS spokesman said Wednesday." The new version stars George Clooney, Hank Azaria, Brian Dennehy, Richard Dreyfuss, Harvey Keitel, and Noah Wyle. The 1964 original (not a live production) starred Walter Matthau and Henry Fonda.

Quoth IMDb on the original: "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) has a remarkably similar premise, and was being made by Stanley Kubrick at the same time. Kubrick threatened legal action, claiming plagiarism. The issue was settled when Columbia Pictures agreed to push Kubrick's film at the expense of Fail-Safe (1964), which subsequently bombed at the box office."

Many thanks Mermaniac for linking Jim Hill's synopsis of the story of Disney's Aida. I'd link his story on Roger Rabbit II, but then it'd look like I'm just stealing your links.

From a TV news story: Thanks to US West's charge-per-use three-way-calling service, people are finding extra charges on their phone bills. This happens because three-way-calling--a service that needs no activation--works by simply by sending a pulse, waiting for a dial tone and dialing a new number. A pulse = hanging up and picking up again quickly, which means most of us end up making a three-way call if we end one call and immediately make another one. The charge? 75 cents, each time. US West's advice is to wait three seconds before picking up again. I'd say wait as much as 10 seconds, since there's no way to determine if you're initiating a new call or adding a third party.

Along similar lines: I like how AT&T is advertising their "0-0 Info" service as so all-purpose that you can make all your calls with just the 0 digit. Despite the fact that you need to be an AT&T customer to do this, it'll still cost you 99 cents a call.

CandyDiscounters.com has cheap candy in bulk. "No need to buy a whole case; We sell as little as 5 pounds of most items."