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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
I also devoured the article about the red bees. It was kind of sad. A King Lear-ish story.
Oh joy! I just found out that TNY will have a weekly crossword puzzle!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 30, 2018, 02:49:58 pm ---Typically, I'm way behind. I enjoyed the articles about the bean guy and the red bees in the April 23 issue.
(Maybe Ennis wouldn't have gotten sick of beans if he could have gotten beans from the bean guy. ;D )
I'm looking forward to the articles about the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the trip along the Rio Grande.
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I read that over lunch today.
Front-Ranger:
The story about the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey contained some good tidbits of new information, but I've read some better critiques of the movie that were more in-depth. I liked the part about Clarke and Kubrick reading about psychedelic experiences yet not wanting to take the drugs themselves to have a more direct experience.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 01, 2018, 04:48:09 pm ---The story about the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey contained some good tidbits of new information, but I've read some better critiques of the movie that were more in-depth.
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I'm about midway through. I'm not that into it because I think I saw the movie only once -- when it was in theaters! :o -- and wasn't that crazy about it. Of course, I was only 10. But even then I could tell it was supposed to be making some grander statement, but just seemed boring.
--- Quote --- I liked the part about Clarke and Kubrick reading about psychedelic experiences yet not wanting to take the drugs themselves to have a more direct experience.
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:laugh: I'm not sure it works that way. But I liked that part, too, mainly because Clarke and Kubrick said they were too "square" too do psychedelics. It got me musing on that word and wondering if, in 2018, it's so square to call someone a square that squareness has actually become cool.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on May 02, 2018, 08:39:56 am ---I'm about midway through. I'm not that into it because I think I saw the movie only once -- when it was in theaters! :o -- and wasn't that crazy about it. Of course, I was only 10. But even then I could tell it was supposed to be making some grander statement, but just seemed boring.
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I don't have the issue with me here at work to check it, but according to IMDb, the film was released in the U.S. in April 1968. I mention this because I have a very clear memory of actually seeing excerpts, or an excerpt, from the film in a class in school (I turned 10 in May 1968.). I know it was the part where the "space shuttle" approaches and docks at the space station, all to the tune of "On the Beautiful Blue Danube." The point of showing it in a classroom must have had something to do with the movie's vision of the future, space travel, and all that. What I cannot recall was what school year I saw this, whether it was before or after the film was released. April was late in the school year (ours ended around mid- to late June; I know we were always still in class for Flag Day, June 14), so I doubt I saw it in class if we saw it the same year but after the release.
When I finally saw the film, it was on TV. I was an adult by then, and I was still confused by the part about the apes and the black thingie.
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