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Paramount In Talks To Acquire Rights To Sci-Fi Classic 'The Stars My Destination'
Deadline|Hollywood ^
| February 27, 2015
| Anita Busch
Posted on 03/02/2015 3:26:07 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
To: EveningStar; Aevery_Freeman; ShadowAce; DollyCali; Perdogg; SunkenCiv; Borges; Mr. K; Blondie; ...
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03/02/2015 4:22:08 PM PST
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Perdogg
(I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushesh)
To: EveningStar
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03/02/2015 4:30:26 PM PST
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Steely Tom
(Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
To: Steely Tom
To: EveningStar
Gully Foyle is my name
and Terra is my station.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
the stars my destination.
To: EveningStar
One of the all-time great stories - how in heaven’s name can such brilliance be transcribed to film?
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03/02/2015 4:44:19 PM PST
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TrueKnightGalahad
(When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.)
To: HartleyMBaldwin
Still sends chills up my spine. Bester was a genius.
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03/02/2015 4:44:31 PM PST
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Noumenon
(Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
To: EveningStar
Queequeg in space!
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posted on
03/02/2015 4:45:51 PM PST
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mylife
To: Noumenon; HartleyMBaldwin; TrueKnightGalahad; Steely Tom; MisterArtery
Along with Gene Wolfe, Jack Vance, Harlan Ellison, and Edgar Pangborn, and some others I can’t remember, Bester is one of the genre’s great writers.
To: TrueKnightGalahad
Attempts to bring this - along with The Demolished Man - to the screen have gone nowhere.
To: HartleyMBaldwin
... and Terra is my station. Without delving deep, I believe, based on my memory, that this line should be ...
"and Terra is my nation."
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posted on
03/02/2015 5:05:55 PM PST
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SES1066
(Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
To: EveningStar
Attempts to bring this - along with The Demolished Man - to the screen have gone nowhere. Much of good SF relies upon mind pictures that do not translate well into movies. Heinlein has definitely suffered from his movie treatments and 'Alfie' Bester's exuberant writing in this novel would be difficult even with CGI to transfer well to the screen. Jaunting is easy, portraying the "Five Mile Circus" would be challenging! Still, there is the success of Phillip Dick's novels, so we can always hope!
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posted on
03/02/2015 5:12:09 PM PST
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SES1066
(Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
To: EveningStar
In ways a ripoff, er, adaptation of the Dumas’ Count of Monte Cristo, but still a great book. Really, tho - who will believe a man can jaunte through space
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posted on
03/02/2015 5:29:30 PM PST
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Smedley
(It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park)
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To: EveningStar
One of the greatest scifi novels ever written. I bet hollywood really f***s it up.
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posted on
03/02/2015 8:20:05 PM PST
by
Seruzawa
(All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
To: SES1066
Well, I can’t prove I’m right, since TSMD is about the only Bester work of which I don’t currently have a copy.
I’m pretty sure it’s “station”, though, based on my own memory, which is admittedly far from perfect.
I guess we’ll have to say that tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun....
To: EveningStar
I'm going to have to put it on my "To Read" list.
Can't say that I've read much Bester. Whatever I have read, I either don't remember the title, or don't remember it was his. (And I would've read it a looooong time ago.)
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posted on
03/03/2015 12:06:37 PM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: HartleyMBaldwin
I guess we’ll have to say that tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.... Alfie called this a 'Pepsid' as a jingle that is so hard to forget it furnishes protection against telepathic eavesdropping. Of course in today's world, nobody wonders "where the yellow went!"
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posted on
03/03/2015 3:50:29 PM PST
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SES1066
(Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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