Out There: May 2005 Archives
I have a great concept for a SF story....
It's the future. Things are bleak.
A remix of a mobile phone ringtone becomes the highest selling/downloaded single of the week in the UK.
The Star Wars posse was in town for the F1 grand prix in Monte Carlo, including George, Hayden and Ian McDiarmid (all of whom were interviewed by ITV). George was asked if he was going to make a motorsport film, he said no pretty blankly. Plus the Red Bull cars were decked out in super cool Star Wars graphics, including the pit crew wearing clone trooper style helmets. Unfortunately David Coulthard's car got damaged by an incoming Schumacher when he was trying to avoid a spun Minardi.
Today, in a shop, I saw lovely big Revenge Of The Sith mugs (ideal for a cuppa). The only downside is that they talked to you! I managed to get five of them talking at once and then ran away.
This years Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductees Steven Spielberg, Philip K. Dick, Chesley Bonestell, Ray Harryhausen, were inducted this weekend. Not too many complaints about those choices.
[Via Locus]
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Press reviews: 1984
"UK newspaper critics give their verdict on New York's Philharmonic orchestra conductor Lorin Maazel's opera adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, which received its world premiere at the Royal Opera House in London on Tuesday."
Overall rating seems to be ungood.
