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Hardware Geeks like me were enthralled. MGM was lost. Charles Lippincott reverted the sales pitch to an inference that a really good LSD experience would come
by OGquaker 8y ago
Hardware Geeks like me were enthralled.
MGM was lost.
Charles Lippincott reverted the sales pitch to an inference that a really good LSD experience would come with your movie ticket, and 2001 took off.
George Lucas hired Charley when he missed the Christmas 1976 release date, paid him by selling all the T-shirt rights for 100K.
Like 'The Stunt Man', 'One From The Heart', 'The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots', 'Angel and the Badman' et al, sometimes fans have to pry the good stuff from the grey suits.
Do Not lick your ticket.
P.S. I didn't get to read the WSJ screed, i'm outside their club:(
- neonate 8y agoI'm not either, but you can get in this way: http://archive.is/HjvCF http://archive.is/HjvCF.
- ekun 8y agoIf you google the title and click on the same link it will be outside the paywall.
- ThinkingGuy 8y agoFor the Google-averse, the same trick seems to work with DuckDuckGo.