Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site inuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!inuxd!arlan From: arlan@inuxd.UUCP (A Andrews) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: A BOY AND HIS DOG Message-ID: <431@inuxd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 16:55:00 EST Article-I.D.: inuxd.431 Posted: Tue Jan 31 16:55:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Feb-84 04:18:34 EST References: <16008@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Consumer Products Div., Indianapolis Lines: 29 Having been present at the first 2 1/2 times A BOY AND HIS DOG was presented (Discon II, Washington, D.C., 1974) I can say that Ellison acted very happy about the movie, and in fact personally introduced the movie and ol' L. Q. Jones, its producer (he, lately of "Green Acres" infame). The desert and the underground city were CHEAPER than the ruined city of the story, and that's the only reason they were used. And yes, ecofreaks, the whole mess was restored to pristine desolation when the shooting was over. One of the many great things about that movie was the complete and utter failure of the "prediction" about the sequence of Presidents: "Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy..." (Of course, with that bunch running things that long, one would expect society to be wiped out in nuclear war, right?) Anyhow, let's not read artsy meaning into strictly commercial decisions. (Harlan's biggest problem that night was that the projectors were crappy, and he wound up showing the first reel twice--once with jumpiness, once with distorted sound track. He gave up in disgust and rescheduled it the next night, rather than trust his ONE PRINT (!) to the terrors of the carbon arc.) Ellison also asked all of us to submit new names, since he was afraid of the namby-pamby original. I submitted THE MUD ABOVE, THE SKY BELOW... --arlan andrews, at&t consumer products, tuesday evening, indpls, in