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To: EveningStar

City was excellent

my favorite, though was the Doomsday Machine.


4 posted on 05/30/2015 10:43:18 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

The Doomsday Machine was written by another outstanding Sci Fi author, Norman Spinrad.


7 posted on 05/30/2015 10:49:54 AM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: Vaquero

Yep I liked the Doomsday Machine also. William Windom as the commodore of the USS Constellation turned in a great performance.


12 posted on 05/30/2015 10:57:31 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Vaquero

I actually met him once and was almost flattened by his ego. OTOH, Ray Bradbury and Jerry Pournelle (a bit loud) were pretty good guys. Bradbury was very old but still pretty sharp.

If you read the story about HOW the actual script came to be for The City on the Edge of Forever, you will find out who REALLY wrote the screenplay. But the way that the rules in Hollywood work, Ellison “wrote” the show.


14 posted on 05/30/2015 11:02:21 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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