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...cope with the unexpected. With real actors, you never know. In 1973 Charlton Heston was to deliver the opening remarks, but his car had a flat tire. Clint Eastwood was dragged on camera to read a slew of Moses jokes written for Heston. The next year, with David Niven as co-host, a streaker ran across the stage. Niven quipped, "Probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings...
...forests certainly are. When travelers arrive at Peter Niven's holiday cabins in the small community of Maydena, it's usually trees they're there...
...Nearby is the Styx Valley, where loggers and protesters argue over stands of E. regnans earmarked for woodchipping, and the Wilderness Society conducts tours along logging roads. Many timber workers pass through Niven's door, but in past months it's tourists who've been flocking to stay. They come, says Niven, "because they have to see the forest before it disappears." After this weekend, they may not have to be in such a rush...
...show business resulted in the best-seller Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957) and the Broadway hit Mary, Mary (1961); in White Plains, New York. A colorful collection of everyday oddities, Please Don't Eat the Daisies was made into a movie with Doris Day and David Niven in 1960 and an NBC television series from 1965 to 1967. At the height of her success, Kerr remarked: "It's pretty good for a girl who tried writing to justify not doing the dishes...
...Xbox match GameCube for visuals? You bet. If anything, it's even more cinematically realistic and detail obsessed. Just take a walk through the space station in Halo, an action game based on Larry Niven's classic sci-fi novel Ringworld, and you'll notice fingerprint marks on triple-glazed windows. Or check out Oddworld, one of the laugh-out-loud funniest video games in a long time. The scaly textured reflective skin on the alien heroes, Abe and Munch, is easily up to Jurassic Park standards...