…JANUARY 4, 2009Public Memorial Service for the Late “First Lady of Star Trek” Majel Barrett Roddenberry
Cast Members and Fans Come Out to Celebrate and Remember Roddenberry’s Life
WHO:
Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, son of Gene & Majel Roddenberry and CEO of Roddenberry Productions, will host cast members, family, friends and fans to celebrate the life of his late mother. Fans are invited to come and pay their respects with the family and share their fondest memories of the late Trek icon.WHAT:
Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry will hold a public memorial service for his late mother. Family, cast members, friends and fans will have an opportunity to remember the legendary “First Lady of Star Trek.”
Category: film
Seekers and Sowhats
I don’t keep abreast of new television very well. I’ve drifted into a mental space wherein I’m dimly aware of new things. I hear about them on the radio or from friends or occasionally I see a notice on a website. But I’ve long since lost the habit of keeping track.
So when I started hearing about this new fantasy show, Legend of the Seeker, it seems that it was already airing and I’d heard nothing about it beforehand. I didn’t get much in the way detail from anyone, other than short recommendations (“Oh, you should see it, it’s good!”)…
Rio Bravo
I had to go to Wal-Mart this past weekend. I know, I know, big box store, destructive of small town America, yadda-yadda. I hate them, but once a year we do a Wal-Mart run for all kinds of stuff that, frankly, just ain’t as cheap anywhere else—toilet paper, vitamins, tissue paper, day-to-day Stuff.
Usually I go with Donna. This time she was in Iowa and I did it solo.
Since I was there anyway, I browsed the big stack of remainder DVDs they always have and I went a little bonkers. I bought the first season of the original Robin Hood with Richard Greene. …
Appearances Etc
I have been remiss. I ought to be posting the things I’m doing publicly here (among other places) and it’s been just crazy enough that I keep forgetting to do this. One of the reasons I need a publicist. But that will have to wait till I have something new to publicize, like a book coming out or something writerly like that.
Meanwhile, I am doing things folks might be interested in. So.
October 25th I will be at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, for the Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers Guild annual conference. I will be the keynote speaker, plus I will be conducting a session on making the change from science fiction to historical writing.…
Sex, Sin, and Secrets
Last night I saw The Da Vinci Code for the first time. I had read the first chapter of the book some time ago and frankly it so did not capture my imagination that I haven’t picked it up since. Years before, I’d read Holy Blood Holy Grail, the book upon which most of Brown’s novel seems based, although the ideas in both have been around for a long, long time.
What did I think of the movie? It was entertaining. It moved well. One might say it is almost (almost, not quite) a Thinking Person’s Indiana Jones. The photography is gorgeous, the settings cool, and I am never disappointed by Ron Howard’s direction. …
The Better Parts of ’07
I’ve seen a number of “Best of 2007” posts here and there, so I thought, after my last, rather depressing, post, I’d put something up about what I really jazzed on in 2007.
Top of the list has to be a few books. What else could you expect?
I didn’t read as much science fiction in 2007 as in the past. A great deal of my time is taken up, more and more, with research for whatever project occupies me, so I’ve spent a lot of hours reading early American history. Among a few favorites, that I would have been glad to have read at any time, are Michael Stephenson’s Patriot Battles; William Hogeland’s The Whiskey Rebellion; and Alan Taylor’s The Divided Ground.…
Miss Moneypenny, R.I.P.
Lois Maxwell has died. The parentheses of our eras appear unexpectedly and sometimes painfully. Of the original James Bond cast, who’s left? Connery, I believe. Bernard Lee is gone, as is Desmond Llewelyn, even most of the villains. I believe all the Bond Girls (of which Lois was often exempted) are still alive. Certain things, certain losses, just bother me more than others.
Lois was never seen in a Bond film in a bikini, an evening gown, or anything other than her office attire, and the scene at the end of On Her Majestie’s Secret Service is almost heartbreaking when Moneypenny has to wish Bond and his new bride happiness.…