Word: crichton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late '30s, much of what Wells had predicted had come true. A world already in future shock either forgot him or patronized him. Cruelly, Lytton Strachey snobbishly noted: "I stopped thinking about Wells the moment he became a thinker." Not everyone did, however. As late as 1969, Michael Crichton took the basic gimmick from The War of the Worlds and turned it into the bestseller The Andromeda Strain. For millions of people, one Wellsian prediction, as headlined in the New York American in 1933, has yet to lose its Chill: H.G. WELLS VISIONS THE ENTIRE WORLD IN THE CLUTCHES...
...have created a man who is one single, large, complex computer terminal," says a doctor in Michael Crichton's bestselling chiller The Terminal Man. "The patient is a readout device for the new computer." Cast as that patient in the movie now being filmed, George Segal seems to have bought the fantasy whole. "I'm just passing through the picture," he declared after the movie doctors attached wires to his shaven skull. "What they do to my brain is up to them...
EXTREME CLOSE-UP is a lubricous, opportunistic piece of business about a TV newsman (James McMullan) who gets hooked on surveillance equipment and turns into a very well-equipped Peeping Tom. The writer, Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain) and the director, Jeannot Szwarc (whose previous credits include no features but a great many episodes on TV shows like Marcus Welby and Ironsides), affect a certain air of importance and urgency...
...Camerons, Crichton...
FICTION ¶1-The Odessa File, Forsyth (1 last week) ¶2-Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Bach (2) ¶3-The Sunlight Dialogues, Gardner (5) ¶4-Elephants Can Remember, Christie (3) ¶5-August 1914, So/zhem/syn (9) ¶6-Green Darkness, Seton (8) ¶7-The Camerons, Crichton (10) ¶8-Semi-Tough, Jenkins (4) ¶9-Snow Fire, Whitney (7) ¶10-The Persian Boy, Renault...