The Adventure Begins

YES! Looking forward to it!

I'd highly recommend the director's cut of "Blade Runner". Highly, even if you're not a big sci-fi fan. The studio really messed up the original release of the film with this oddball voiceover that simply doesn't work. The changes in the director's cut are quite subtle, but significant. The film actually takes on emotional power. Also, the Bradbury Building plays a significant role in the film.

I'd also point out the triple feature at the Los Angeles Theater of "Alien vs. Predator Requiem", "Alien" and "Predator" on the 14th. For those who are so inclined (count me in), this is a fantastic event. (Although, as a quibble, I'd have prefered "Aliens" to the original, since it seems to be a more appropriate match with the other two films.) I have to admit, I'm curious to see how the setting enhances the experience of the films. For those who have not been there, the Los Angeles Theater is a startlingly beautiful building.

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Sci-Fi, Bradbury (bldg.), 1953, a historian named McCoy, hocus-pocus, "Take the Bradbury, it will make you famous" (quija/planchett), architect George Wyman's grandson (major science fiction writer's best boyhood buddy and first lit. agent, who lived with ghosts, goblins and spooks in Los Feliz), Bradbury (Ray, no relation to building's developer, also lit. agent's best buddy), Silas R. Burns (first boss of lit. agent's grandfather, circa 1888, Akron, Ohio), Silas R. Burns (partner of the one true architect of the climactic scene at 3rd & Broadway, partnered 1908-1930 in L.A.), the Bradbury did NOT make the grandfather famous; McCoy did, based upon what the grandson/mother/aunt said and she did not investigate primary sources, a whale of a tale, did she fall for it or did she say "why not?", architect Sumner P. Hunt was not fired, he had had his office in the Richardsonian California Bank Building at Second and Broadway, the grandfather's office was in a veritable shack on Spring, north of Third, the developer wanted to make use of building materials furnished by supply companies out of his diverse commercial holdings, he also saved money by replacing the desigm architect of the Bradbury (hugely admired by Charles Lummis) with said practicioner (executive architect) operating out of a shack so as to have less costly supervision of construction of "A Vast Hall Full of Light", i.e. - the most amazing structure in Los Angeles history.