If I had to guess, I would say Michael auditioned for Paulie. Without pointing figures about viewing choices, I actually saw The Godfather again at the Flashback Cinema at Epic Theatre last summer and it's still magnificent.
I vaguely remember Lois being on during the Adam and Nicole storyline back in the Dark Shadows days...but I remember her more as Ted Knights wife in Caddyshack. She was a hoot.
Same with our club. We started meeting at our library back in 92 but the library prevented us from playing DS videos as copyrighted material, so we moved on. At least we are still going strong 26 years later.