TV Series: Cimarron Strip Jun 14, 2008
Cimarron Strip writers included Jack Curtis, Ellis Marcus, Harold Swanton, Calvin Clements and Harlan Ellison ... Recognized as one of Cimarron Strip's best episodes was "Knife in the Darkness" (1/25/68), a murder mystery penned by the prolific Harlan Ellison. (Suite101.com)
Sex, death and the city (i.e., Prague) Jun 12, 2008
Genghis Khan, Harlan Ellison and RFK. Picturehouse / Igor Vereshagin. (Salon)
Is It Only Rock and Roll? Jun 8, 2008
Harlan Ellison, to the best of my knowledge, gets the prize with his 1961 novel "Rockabilly" (it was eventually re-named "Spider Kiss"). There's a thoroughly at bookslut. (Los Angeles Times)
Dreams With Sharp Teeth Jun 6, 2008
June 6, 2008 -- HARLAN Ellison is one hell of a writer. Working on an old typewriter, he has turned out more than 2,000 stories ("Angry Candy," "Deathbird Stories") and written episodes for TV's "The Outer Limits" and "Star Trek," with some screenplays and nonfiction mixed in. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Genghis Khan, Harlan Ellison and RFK Jun 6, 2008
I've already written about the arresting, hilarious and necessary documentary about legendary science-fiction author Harlan Ellison made by Erik Nelson, which opens this week at New York's with other dates likely to follow. Nina Davenport's documentary follows the perplexing career of a young Iraqi film student who became involved with the shoot of Liev Schreiber's directing debut, "Everything Is Illuminated," as well as an action-thriller starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. (Salon)
IFFBoston offers the serious, the groundbreaking, the odd Apr 20, 2008
Geeky themes resonate strongly in three shorts: the creepy-crawly Darwinian world of bugs, amphibians, and reptiles in "Safari"; a competitive club for inventors in "Primitive Technology"; and a mysterious message encountered by '60s-era astronauts in "The Drift." Full-blown sci-fi geeks will revel in IFFBoston's first foray into Japanese anime, "Vexille"; the Spanish "Time Crimes," a Hitchcockian thriller complicated by time travel; and "Dreams With Sharp Teeth," a portrait of speculative... (Boston Globe)
Arthur C. Clarke: Artists Elegize an Icon Mar 20, 2008
Harlan Ellison, author and screenwriter Sci-fi is a moron's neologism and Arthur hated it. He was a serious writer and a serious man, and when he wrote about the future, he took it seriously. (Wired News)
Salvaging beauty from despair Feb 28, 2008
Science-fiction writer Harlan Ellison titled one of his most famous stories "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream." That's what it must be like to be paralyzed, a sentient person trapped in a body that no longer does your bidding. We've read accounts of people like this and maybe tried to imagine what that must be like. (Juneau Empire)
Mini movie reviews Feb 22, 2008
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Thompson on Hollywood Jan 18, 2008
Also added to the SXSW Film Conference are a series of Conversations including actress Helen Hunt (who will screen her directorial debut, Then She Found Me), sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison (subject of the SXSW doc, Dreams With Sharp Teeth), and ex-Disney chief Michael Eisner. An interesting choice. (Variety)
Changing media takes center stage in strike Nov 9, 2007
"There is no dream until we dream it. There is no word written until we write it," the commentator and science fiction writer Harlan Ellison ("Babylon 5," the story "A Boy and His Dog," the TV column collection "The Glass Teat") told CNN during the 1988 strike. But the earlier strike -- which began March 7 of that year, lasted 22 weeks, postponed the beginning of the 1988-89 TV season and cost an estimated $500 million -- gave rise to a group of low-budgeted shows, including "America's Most... (CNN -- Showbiz)
16 comments Nov 2, 2007
- The Deathbird Harlan Ellison The WMDs, Iraq, no wait SyriaNov 01, 2007 @ 06:43 AMThe WMDs needs to read the book "23 Minutes In Hell". since he/she will most likely be spending an eternity there one day. (Human Events Online)
In Partial Response to Christopher Hitchens Nov 1, 2007
- The Deathbird Harlan Ellison The WMDs, Iraq, no wait SyriaNov 01, 2007 @ 06:33 AM. Share Your Comment. (Human Events Online)
Why a Canadian sci-fi author is loved in China Aug 28, 2007
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail. August 28, 2007 at 4:12 AM EDT. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Bestselling Author David Morrell Receives Prestigious Inkpot Award at Comic-Con 2007 Aug 4, 2007
Recipients of the Inkpot Award include Collins (Dick Tracy, Road to Perdition), Ray Bradbury, Chuck Jones, George Lucas, Frank Miller, Steven Spielberg, Harlan Ellison, Matt Groening, Gahan Wilson, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Francis Ford Coppola, Mickey Spillane, Rod Serling and more. Morrell is also a three-time recipient of the prestigious Bram Stoker award, most recently for his 2005 novel Creepers. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Masters of Science Fiction Aug 3, 2007
The ever-mercurial Harlan Ellison adapted his short story along with Josh Olson, and it showcases the kind of rich, detailed material that packs a surprising amount of character development into an hour, buoyed by John Hurt and Brian Dennehy as two of the misshapen voyagers, with "Desperate Housewives'" James Denton making a cameo appearance. Anthology series pose an obvious marketing challenge, inasmuch as they lack recurring stories and characters to lure viewers back week after week. (Variety)
'Science Fiction' is buried treasure Aug 2, 2007
In some ways, this is pretty amazing stuff: material from top-flight authors like Robert Heinlein and Harlan Ellison, directed by well-known directors like Mark Rydell ("On Golden Pond") and Michael Tolkin ("The Player"), with actors like Sam Waterston, Judy Davis, Brian Dennehy, Anne Heche and Malcolm McDowell. On the other hand, the series will be broadcast in the dead of summer on Saturday nights, suggesting that the network sees its likely audience as pudgy misfits in "Star Trek" costumes,... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
'Tomorrow' host Snyder dies at 71 Aug 2, 2007
Snyder might joke with the crew in the sparsely appointed studio, but he was more likely to joust with guests such as the irascible science fiction writer Harlan Ellison. Snyder had John Lennon's final televised interview (April 1975) and U2's first U.S. television appearance in June 1981. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Interzone 210 Jul 12, 2007
The non-fiction is often at least as interesting as the stories, and as well as the usual mix of book and film reviews by such luminaries as Nick Lowe and John Clute, there are David Langford's regular Anisble Link (a gossip column for the sf world), interviews with cover artist Sirois and Steph Swainston, and an autobiographical essay by Harlan Ellison on his relationship with legendary author Theodore Sturgeon, a contemporary and fellow writer of screenplays for the original Star Trek. (Suite101.com)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 Jun 24, 2007
Carol Emshwiller's award winning short story, "Grandma," is a revisionist superhero story; Harlan Ellison offers '[if] James Hilton. had written. (Suite101.com)
Several Villains to Blame for Lack of Sci-Fi Success Jun 5, 2007
Indeed, Harlan Ellison, in defending of his use of the term "speculative fiction," argues that science fiction (or its hated abbreviated form, sci-fi) reduces the ideas that artists craft by sticking them into a certain set of formulaic loopholes. Indeed, when one hears said movie moniker, the mind is instantly swept away to planets unknown, where intergalactic entities battle it out for control of their dying dystopian societies - or even worse, a centuries-from-now situation where technology... (The Ledger)
Future shock: the death of serious science fiction May 31, 2007
Scattered among this collective are intriguing also-rans like Silent Running, Solaris, Blade Runner, Gattaca and "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. While some may argue for a missing favourite - Alien, The Fifth Element, I, Robot - there is a significant reasons why these movies fall outside this discussion, primary among them, their lack of an inherent allegorical nature. Serious science fiction is not a question of storytelling reclassification, but of innovation spawned by creative conjecture.... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Pushy Questions Apr 18, 2007
THURS 4/19: Harlan Ellison discusses his career and life with Josh Olson for the Writers Guild Foundation's Spring Storyteller Series. $15 - $20, 7 p.m.. (Variety)
