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Mar 24, 2017 - 7:46 AM
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RoryR
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He always seemed inexplicably smug, to me. Especially for someone who wrote the horrendous screenplay for the film, THE OSCAR.
Yeah, he was whoring himself out on that project. Unfortunately, in this world of wonderful humanity, a person must have money in order to take care of themselves. Nice, right?
He also worked on the screenplay for VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. Oh, what some people will do for money!
Ellison is a curmudgeon and, I think, a misanthrope -- my kind of guy!
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I don't disagree with anything you all are saying about Ellison, and I'm no longer interested in hearing him pontificate. But for anyone with an interest in science fiction, and I would say contemporary literature, his fiction is well worth sampling at least. And since it's all short stories, it's easy to sample. The art stands apart from the man.
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Mar 24, 2017 - 9:21 AM
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I don't disagree with anything you all are saying about Ellison, and I'm no longer interested in hearing him pontificate. But for anyone with an interest in science fiction, and I would say contemporary literature, his fiction is well worth sampling at least. And since it's all short stories, it's easy to sample. The art stands apart from the man.
As a fan of much of the art of Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Leni Riefenstahl, Otto Preminger, and much of the music of Richard Strauss, and the screen personas of John Wayne and Charlton Heston, I agree with you.
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Oops. Beat to the U-Tube punch 
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He always seemed inexplicably smug, to me. Especially for someone who wrote the horrendous screenplay for the film, THE OSCAR.
Yeah, he was whoring himself out on that project. Unfortunately, in this world of wonderful humanity, a person must have money in order to take care of themselves. Nice, right?
He also worked on the screenplay for VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. Oh, what some people will do for money!
Ellison is a curmudgeon and, I think, a misanthrope -- my kind of guy!
While I find THE OSCAR, completely unwatchable, nothing could be further from the truth where VALLEY OF THE DOLLS is concerned.
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We WONDERED how you'd feel about that, PhillyJay - tho we also wonder how that entire miasma woulda turned out if he'd gotten McQueen and Falk as originally envisioned.
As for der 'Valley' - sorry. We got nooooo interest in sacrificing a coupla non-refundable hours at this Act III stage of our life  ...
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Y'know, we get SUCH a kick outta how everyone feels so compelled to point out
