It’s a signature time for robots. In real life we’ve got Curiosity taking a years-long constitutional on the red planet, Rosetta dropping in on Comet67P, drones over the White House and Iraq,...
https://hollywoodandallthat.com/2015/07/01/the-other-terminator-marvin-the-paranoid-android/
“Einstein’s Monsters” is a collection of short stories and essays by the distinguished British author, Martin Amis (“Money”, “The Rachel Papers”). The book formed the basis for a ...
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” “That’s your problem! You don’t want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.” (Sleepless in Seattle) “The desire ...
https://hollywoodandallthat.com/2014/05/19/the-wit-and-wisdom-of-nora-ephron/
Living and working in Hollywood one is inclined, somewhat more than the general population, to suffer from a variety of movie states of mind. After all, wanting to escape reality is what brought ...
https://hollywoodandallthat.com/2014/03/13/in-a-hollywood-state-of-mind/
Where do gods live? The people of the Himalayas believe the gods live in the high mountains, and that summits are sacred places. Everest was once known as Chomolungma, meaning “Goddess Mother...
https://hollywoodandallthat.com/2013/06/16/my-dad-on-everest-and-beyond-of-god-and-science/
In fact, by the time this photo was carried on the cover of every newspaper on the morning of June 2nd, the climbers were back at Base Camp, having actually reached the summit on May 29th. But ...
Sixty years ago, on 2nd June 1953, the BBC mounted its largest broadcast operation to date. How do you televise a Queen’s Coronation? With great care….
https://hollywoodandallthat.com/2013/06/02/televising-the-queens-coronation/
One of the perks of having my dad for a dad was the strain of unusual and exotic experiences that ran through my life as a result of being related to a Himalayan explorer, one of the team that fi...
https://hollywoodandallthat.com/2013/05/31/my-dad-the-yeti-and-me-everest-1951/
It was on this day, the 29th May, sixty years ago, that two men – Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal – stepped onto the highest point on Planet Earth, five vertical mil...
Paul Simon wasn’t there (but he should have been) to gently coo the adjusted lyric to his classic song “Still Crazy After All These Years”, as Cybill Shepherd — the femme fatale in quest...
https://hollywoodandallthat.com/2013/05/17/still-fatale-after-all-these-years/