Posted on 05/30/2015 10:36:56 AM PDT by EveningStar
Harlan Ellison is still an angry young man, except he'll be 81 on May 27. He has used this anger, fueled by childhood anti-Semitism, throughout his extraordinary career as a writer of speculative fiction. This year saw the publication of his 116th and 117th (so far) books: The Top of the Volcano, a collection of his awardwinning short stories, and a graphic novelization of his original script for "The City on the Edge of Forever," widely considered the best Star Trek episode ever written.
Although Ellison's hundreds of published stories contain a wealth of Jewish characters, his most complex creation is Ellison himself. Born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio in 1934 and raised in nearby Painesville, "We were not very Jewish," he said of his family. "I was a Shabbos Jew. We were Jewish when it came to the High Holy Days. The rest of the time, the only time Jewishness was brought up was when somebody called somebody a kike and there had been a fight. And that was usually me."
(Excerpt) Read more at thejewishadvocate.com ...
Yes, that was it, thanks!!
Harlan Ellison did not like William Shatner counting lines in the script.
Some others making comments on this.
http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=64749&forumID=7&archive=0
Shatner toupee
http://shatnerstoupee.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-flying-toupees.html
http://mentalfloss.com/article/19433/3-bald-encounters-set-star-trek#comment-92379
"City on the Edge of Forever" is widely considered one of the best examples of science fiction ever written.
I’ve read Ellison’s account of this in a book about the episode. The same book contains a treatment and one of the versions of Ellison’s screenplay for this episode.
I’m sure I am too critical.
Sounds like Ellison is now trying to make a buck putting out “greatest hits” releases. Flaming leftist fag, but talented writer. His “Glass Teat” TV columns from the 70’s are still hilarious, despite the years and the leftist bias. Never was that big a fan of his SF, except for a few of his best stories - I preferred “hard” SF to the New Wave stuff.
Yes Ellison has talent. Too bad he wasted so much of it in anger and revenge.
Persistent, life directing anger is a characteristic of leftists. They do not like reality, and insist on changing it, even if it is not possible.
Fits Ellison to a T.
With five wives, though, I do not think he is a homosexual.
Windom only died within the last year or so.
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I referred to Jeri Ryan as “36 of D”...for obvious reasons.
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I referred to Jeri Ryan as “36 of D”...for obvious reasons.
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I referred to Jeri Ryan as “36 of D”...for obvious reasons.
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Tablet locked up on me, sorry.
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I have a vague memory that he declared himself to be a homo a few years ago. Course, at his age, it's like, who cares?
“I have a vague memory that he declared himself to be a homo a few years ago. Course, at his age, it’s like, who cares?”
As he is a writer who self-proclaimed that the purpose of his work was to “shock”, I am suspect of late date proclamations of sexuality that seem specifically designed to “shock”, especially when they are the political flavor de novo.
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