Author: Larry Proffer
Date: 23:36:11 06/20/01
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On June 20, 2001 at 22:24:39, Fernando Villegas wrote: >What is first? Chicken or egg? If you - and other guys- do not go and write >because lack of feedback, then, obviously, no feedback appears and you are >right: catch 22. > >Moreland: he is not going to delete or ban nobody there. In the first place, he >understand very well the new forum is an altogether different ball game. Second, >he has not absolute powers. Third, he probably not even go there. He is not >interested. It is not his stuff. And if he goes, he will not measure with the >same yardstick. He cannot. He is not moderator there. Fernando, you don't address the point. Moreland can delete an account at will. If someone posts at both your mid-life-crisis forum AND here, then an account deletion here would also be an account deletion on MLF-Forum. I'm not talking about deletions for silly swearing posts, but for political and personal reasons. Therefore Moreland has arbitrary power over your forum. You still don't address this fact. > >Thorsten living CCC cannot be used for measuring CTF, where he not even came. > >BTW, today, in my radio program, I talked about your review of AI. I mentioned >you as the father of it, of course. I didn't write the review. The movie isn't released yet, and has been seen by film journalists only. >They, my companions in the show, said: "who >is that Chris Wittington you named?" So I gave them some data to make it clear: >the author of CSTAL. So they asked what a heck is that. Then I said: a strong >chess program. "A chess program?" "Well", I said, "you know, you can create a >program capable of playing chess". "How they do that?" they asked, but then I >steered the talk to comment Kubrik movies. It seems that AI is the 'sequel' to 2001. Essentially it was written by Kubrick and then taken on by Spielberg. Quote ...... ``He would have applauded,'' Jan Harlan said to me. Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law, close friend and creator of the WB Home Video ``Stanley Kubrick, A Life In Pictures,'' added, ``Steven was very faithful to Stanley's vision of the film and at the same time, expressed his own genius. I was moved by every one of his frames. It is a milestone of cinema history.'' Harlan saw it completed for the first time two weeks ago at WB with Kathleen Kennedy, who produced with Spielberg and Bonnie Curtis: ``I was flabbergasted,'' he said. Jan saw it again in New York with Kubrick's widow (and Harlan's sister) Christiane, who echoed Harlan's opinion. Harlan recalled the meeting in 1995 when Kubrick asked Steven for the first time if he would consider directing the movie. ``It was then a proposal,'' said Harlan. ``He (Kubrick ) showed Steven 650 drawings he had made with his vision of the film. It was totally against anything Stanley had done'' -- to ask someone else to direct his film. By the time Steven was set to start the film, following Kubrick's death (March 7, 1999), Harlan said he had uncovered 1,100 drawings Kubrick had prepared. >Al least they know he was a film >maker. From Kubrik we talked about science-fiction and the common factor that >seems to be part of the syche of every lover of that kind of stuff: some degree >of escapism, detachment, etc. Have you realized that there are not interesting >human beings in not even one novel of the kind? Curious, a computer -HAL- >appears as a lot more interesting personality. >When we reached that, they said: "Hey, HAL played a game of chess... how is >that...?" > >Afortunately the show ended there. Funny. > >Fernando
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