![]() ![]() He was a great man, and I miss being able to shoot him an email now and then. Have you heard the song? "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department, said Wernher von Braun." Anyway, I visited Arthur three times in Sri Lanka, the last with my family in tow. I learned a lot from him, including about the ancient Greek mechanical geared astronomical calculator, the Antikythera Mechanism. ![]() We hit it off, and had quite a few lengthy discussions, and not just about "2001," either. I actually met him in the year 2001, no less, in December. Clarke and what was your relationship with him like? These came from exceedingly generous fellow researchers such as "2001" researcher David Larson, Cinef ex magazine editor and publisher Don Shay, Arthur's biographer Neil McAleer, and last but not least, Dan Richter himself, who apart from playing the lead man-ape, Moonwatcher, wrote a book about it 30 years later called Moonwatcher's Diary, and conducted dozens of excellent interviews back then to refresh his memory of the production. ![]() Then came a seriously in-depth and fascinating set of transcripts from interviews not conducted by myself, which included discussions with key players who're no longer with us - people like stuntman Bill Weston Kubrick friend and consigliere Roger Caras makeup man Stuart Freeborn and the like. ![]()
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