Harlan Ellison

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• Harlan Holsters Lawyer Daggett, At Least Temporarily

  
  File 770 — Authority: 137
  There’s a scene in True Grit between Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, played by Glen Campbell and U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn, played by John Wayne, watching Mattie (Kim Darby) stalk away after once again threatening someone with a lawsuit. LaBoeuf says to Rooster, “Lawyer Daggett - she draws him like a gun!” That ...
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• Doomsday Marathon: A Boy and His Dog

  
  Row Three — Authority: 512
  [Special Thanks to Sean Dwyer for contributing this entry into the Doomsday Marathon, which is also currently published as a Forgotten Films Entry over at FilmJunk ] O ne of the lesser known classics of the genre, L.Q. Jones’ A Boy and His Dog, is based on the novella by Harlan Ellison. The movie takes place in ...
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• Item! And everything!

  
  The Fluent Self — Authority: 493
  A somewhat goofy mini-collection of stuff I’ve been reading, stuff I’ve been thinking about and oh, some completely random crap. Basically the stuff that never gets mentioned here because I’m not the kind of person who can just make some teeny little point. Not into the whole brevity thing, as the Dude would ...
  3 days ago

• Ars Longa

  
  File 770 — Authority: 137
  At Big Hollywood , John T. Simpson rightly believes today’s readers should not continue unaware of Harlan Ellison, The Original Hollywood Rebel . For those of you here at Big Hollywood who think you are playing a whole new game in taking on the Tinseltown establishment in force, I have news for you. Scribe ...
  4 days ago

• Harlan Ellison: The Original Hollywood Rebel

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 800
  “My role in life is to be a burr under the saddle. I didn’t pick that for myself, it just happens that’s the way I am. I wish I could be one of the really sweet guys, but for me nobody has a good word. That’s because my allegiance is to art, to the work. I have no allegiance to magazines, producers, studios, ...
  5 days ago

• Science Fiction Humor in Laugh Lines by Ben Bova

  
  Bookstove — Authority: 130
  LAUGH LINES, Ben Bova, Baen Books, 2009, 677pp, $7.99 A welcome repackaging of stories from a premier writer of hard science fiction as he sallies into science fiction humor. Included are two books (he insists on calling them novellas) and a handful of short stories. The centerpiece is the lead book, “The ...
  1 week ago

• Qualities of a Good Teacher

  
  incipit vita nova — Authority: 124
  I understand now that Harlan has been "controversial" because people dont perceive the several layers of irony in which he sometimes cloaks his words and actions, and because they also fail to perceive that he has always communicated from a deep, honest emotional core. Its in his writing. It is his writing. It took ...
  2 weeks ago

• Don Ivan Punchatz (1936-2009)

  
  File 770 — Authority: 137
  Famed illustrator Don Ivan Punchatz died October 22 of cardiac arrest. He was an acknowledged influence on the sf art field who did some of the most iconic sf book covers of his generation, as the New York Times  noted: Mr. Punchatz was a skilled hyperrealist with a penchant for the fantastic and absurd. His ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is it Too Early to Start Hating "The Holidays"?

  
  Project Child Murdering Robot — Authority: 118
  Santa and Reindeer by ~TroyJunior on deviantARTIs it too early to start hating the enforced merriment and jollity of "the holiday season"? Usually, I dont start hating the holidays until the middle of November, but I am in a particularly sour mood this year. Maybe its because were in a recession and the unemployment ...
  3 weeks ago

• Signs of the Apocalypse Roundup – October 2009 – Week 5

  
  (Cool) Shite on the Tube - Film, TV, Comics, Games, Books, Genre Pop Culture. — Authority: 137
  ABC orders extreme weight-loss reality show ABC is teaming with “Biggest Loser” executive producer J.D. Roth for a new show where extremely overweight individuals shed hundreds of pounds over the course of a full year. Tentatively titled “Obese,” the network has taken the rare step of ordering an unscripted ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Kind of Face You SLASH!!! - Day 29: That New Being, the New Master

  
  The Kind of Face You Hate — Authority: 461
  If I wanted to, and didnt mind reading and writing exclusively about vampires (I would), I think I could very easily get a whole months worth of posts out of the book pictured above. As you can see, it advertises itself as " The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published ". I have no idea if that claim is ...
  4 weeks ago

• Avatar Story Revealed – Accusers Come Out Of The Woodwork

  
  Best Celebrity Scoop — Authority: 150
  James Cameron’s much hyped Avatar has it’s complete plot-line revealed in the new International trailer. With it come questions of stealing concepts and story-lines once again for the director. Many may recall Cameron’s Terminator being a story once told by Harlan Ellison (renowned science fiction writer) ...
  4 weeks ago

• Avatar Controversy: Did James Cameron Steal the Story?

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 764
  While geeks the world over are eagerly awaiting Avatar , the return of James Cameron to the original sci-fi territory hes proven a master over with The Abyss and Terminator/Terminator 2 , fans of obscure science fiction novellas from 1957 are being struck with deja vu. A reader tipped off genre champions ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ellison Receives Settlement In Lawsuit Against Paramount

  
  SciFi Pulse — Authority: 147
  Its a Star Trek story decades in the making! But if you blinked, you missed it.Harlan Ellison, noted science fiction writer, and CBS Paramount recently settled a lawsuit filed by the author in March regarding the original Star Trek episode, "City On The Edge Of Forever." You know, the one that aired in 1967 and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Harlan Ellison Wins "City on the Edge of Forever" Suit

  
  WEIMAR WORLD SERVICE — Authority: 134
  The long-fought suit over merchandising and other rights to Harlan Ellisons great "City on the Edge of Forever" episode of Star Trek has been ruled in Ellisons favor, reports Slice of Sci Fi . Ellison sued Paramount Pictures over the various spinoff merchandising to his story, which regularly ranks as one of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Harlan Ellison bests CBS Paramount over 42 year old Star Trek episode

  
  TV Squad — Authority: 712
  You have to admire the tenacity of writer Harlan Ellison . He filed a lawsuit against CBS Paramount accusing the company of not paying him for all the ancillary income the company earned from the episode of Star Trek he wrote in 1967, "City on the Edge of Forever." Yesterday, Ellison announced on his web site ...
  5 weeks ago

• Dollhouse, Flashforward, and a Few SF Links

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 486
  Dollhouse , Flashforward , and a few SF links. * Both Dollhouse tonight and Flashforward yesterday were noticeable improvements over a string of weak episodes, but problems persist. On Flashforward , the characters remain essentially interchangeable ciphers, with almost no tension or mystery surrounding their ...
  5 weeks ago

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