mylife wrote:
“Gee, I want to hang around with that guy.... /s”
If you remember the ST:TOS “Guardian of Forever”, he wrote that, Roddenberry stole it! If you remember Outer Limits “Demon with a Glass Hand”, that was him! “A Boy and HIs Dog”?
Lastly, try this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_the_City
He is called affectionately Uncle Harlan.
For your viewing delight:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=harland+ellison&sm=3
From an Ellison-ite.
I read Ellison’s original script for “City on the Edge of Forever.” It was a great script, but it was unfilmable. It had to be altered to fit Trek and to comply with standards & practices of the time. He’s been complaining about that for 45 years, but with the alterations, it gave him a much higher profile and accolades than he would’ve received had he said “no” and walked away with his script intact. That’s often been the problem with writers, they frequently want complete creative control, and they almost never get it.