Benson Tv Quotes

2001’s production notes contain a number of startlingly prescient glimpses of the world we live in today. As of mid-1965, approximately the same time that the US Department of Defense was conceiving of the internet’s direct predecessor, ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), Kubrick’s intrepid band of futurists had seemingly already visualized important aspects of the new technology’s implications. One document sent from Tony Masters to Roger Caras on June 29 listed matter-of-factly—under a letterhead replete with the roaring MGM lion—nine props that he asked Caras to help him with. Number one was “2001 newspaper to be read on some kind of television screen. Should be designed television screen shape; i.e., wider than it is high.

Katerina, do you ever watch a comedy show on TV? At the end of one of those 30-minute shows, the credits roll. About 75 people have worked on that show, and only sometimes the shows are funny. I am one man alone. Given the odds, you are lucky if you get a single chuckle out of me. You're lucky if I even make you smile.