Ray Bradbury attacks Moore for 'stealing title'

[KennyR]

Moore is a twisted assh*le (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38776) says previously respected sci-fi author, after Moore used the name legally without permission. Meow!

[Glaucus]

Ummm.... Isn't Ray dead?!?

- Mike

[T_Bone]

:lol:

Just when I thought the interesting news was dying down it starts picking up again!

[KennyR]

Ummm.... Isn't Ray dead?!?

It says nothing about seances or ouija boards, so I suppose not. ;-)

[Glaucus]

KennyR wrote:
Ummm.... Isn't Ray dead?!?

It says nothing about seances or ouija boards, so I suppose not. ;-)Ahh... Sorry, my mistake. I was thinking of Gene Roddenberry... :oops: :-D

- Mike

[that_punk_guy]

Heh... more Weapons of Neurological Destruction from WorldNetDaily. ;-)

[mikeymike]

In the Harry Potter 3 trailer there's a bit that says "something wicked this way comes", which is the name of a Ray Bradbury book allegedly. I'm surprised a publishing company hasn't got its knickers in a twist over that.

[Wilse]

Funny how he's so upset about it, considering he says:
Who cares? Nobody will see his movie. It is almost dead
already. Never mind, nobody cares.

Apart from Mr. Bradbury, apparently.

Having said that, Moore should have asked out of common courtesy, IMO.

Fahrenheit 451 is a great story too.

[KennyR]

Yeah, Mr. Bradbury did come across as being rather petulant, like a spoiled child, from those quotes...

[cecilia]

Fahrenheit 451 is the 1st science fiction book i ever read. i got it in grammer school and i still have that paperback!

i find it a bit hard to believe that Bradbury said those statements as "printed" on that site. I'd rather see a real interview. Bradbury tends to have a bit more class than sound this "petulant". things he said may have been taken out of context. who knows.

[FluffyMcDeath]

cecilia wrote:
Bradbury tends to have a bit more class than sound this "petulant". things he said may have been taken out of context. who knows.

I'm enjoying the story in several languages. I don't speak any but English but ... well check these out.

"Michael Moore ist ein fürchterlicher Mensch"
Ray Bradbury: Moore ein "Drecksack"
"Moore är en skitstövel"

[T_Bone]

cecilia wrote:
Fahrenheit 451 is the 1st science fiction book i ever read. i got it in grammer school and i still have that paperback!

i find it a bit hard to believe that Bradbury said those statements as "printed" on that site. I'd rather see a real interview. Bradbury tends to have a bit more class than sound this "petulant". things he said may have been taken out of context. who knows.

Hell, I didn't believe it when I first read it.

I don't think Bradbury has much of a case, personally. It's perfect satire, and as much as I cant stand Moore the name is clever.

[Wilse]

@T_Bone:

I still think he should have asked permission, purely out of courtesy.

I agree it's a good name but still....

PS - I just installed OS4 pre-release - lovely. :-)
(though no serial.device, so still on the Peg for now)

[blobrana]

Hum,
he should have used Celsius...


@mikeymike
"Something wicked this way comes.". Ray ripped Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (Act 4?).

Like he ripped Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit`s (the man who put `cool` into thermometry) name?





[Fahrenheit 451: is of course the temperature at which Book Paper catches fire]

[zudobug]

[Fahrenheit 451: is of course the temperature at which Book Paper catches fire]

Ooooooh, you've just reminded me what happens in that story! Hehehe, I get the link now.

Sometimes I'm so slooooow. :-)

-zudo

[mikeymike]

I never finished reading Fahrenheit 451 - when I was in the third year in secondary school, our teacher chose that book. We all got ultra-depressed with it and the teacher gave up and went onto Macbeth IIRC.

I caught the end of the film (Fah. 451) and now I really want to read the book again :-)

[cecilia]

blobrana wrote:
Hum,
he should have used Celsius...
Celsius 232.78


doesn't quite have the same ring... :lol:

[cecilia]

mikeymike wrote:
I never finished reading Fahrenheit 451
really!!!!! :-o
I was rivited!
of course, I had payed for it and it had nothing to do with school (i was always an obsessive reader, anyway).

years later in HS, I couldn't finish War and Peace. THAT was ponderous!!! :-(

[mikeymike]

I think I've always been like this, though maybe steadily changing to a more neutral position on it, but for me a story has to have at least some chance of 'light and the end of the tunnel', I can't continue with it if it's going to be depressing all the way through.

That's not to say I only like stuff with happy endings, but it's got to look like it might possibly have a more positive ending.

Fah. 451 was too depressing for me, though the last time I read any of it I was 14 or 15 I think.

[blobrana]

@cecilia
Hum,
i read a book about helium once, and i just couldn`t put it down...

[cecilia]

:roflmao: looks like someone's been reading "1001 Jokes to tell your Friends"