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...They asked me to speak about what I've been doing lately. So instead I decided to show you what I've been doing lately," Dr. Michael Crichton '64 said yesterday at a preview of his new movie "Coma" at the Law School Forum...
...Crichton, author of best-selling novels "The Andromeda Strain" and "The Terminal Man," directed "Coma" after writing the screen-play based on the novel by Robin Cook...
...been seen whole. Now it can be: last week a retrospective of 201 paintings, drawings, multiples and prints by Jasper Johns opened at New York's Whitney Museum. Curator David Whitney, a former assistant to Johns, put the retrospective together; the West Coast science-fiction writer Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain) supplied a catalogue text. It is, of course, a fascinating show; but the painter who rises from it is not the Leonardesque genius we have all been conditioned to expect...
Performing with suspended, comatose bodies is a tough assignment for any actress. No wonder Genevieve Bujold read the script of Coma, based on Robin Cook's bestselling chiller, and said, "Oh, my God, I don't know about this!" But her doctor-writer friend Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain), author of the screenplay and the director, cajoled her into accepting the part. Bujold plays a surgical resident in a large Boston hospital who wonders why certain patients never regain consciousness after routine operations-and unravels a diabolical traffic in human organs. To inject as much realism as possible...
Even as late as the 19th century, Crichton says, physicians were writing with strength and conviction. Now, however, "voices are passive, modifiers are abstract and qualifying clauses abound. The general tone is one of utmost timidity, going far beyond sensible caution." Crichton finds it all very puzzling. "An eminent surgeon strides purposefully into the operating room each day," he says, "but to read his papers, you wonder how he finds the courage to get out of bed in the morning." Crichton has a theory about the use of obfuscating medical language. In explaining it, however, he unwittingly demonstrates that jargon...