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...makes it more complex, and (unfortunately) inserts a happy ending every time. (It's only in the last decade that Disney has begun to attempt adapting novels, with varied results.) Some other examples of short tales being made into good, or at least successful, films include 2001: A Space Odyssey (expanded after the film's production into a whole novel) and The Lawnmower Man. John Campbell's short sci-fi story The Thing spawned a classic 1950s black-and-white horror film as well as an excellent John Carpenter gore flick...
...visions of The Future were carrying that theme even farther. Stanley Kubrick immortalized the year some people feel is the real millennial year in his movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," a film clearly set in The Future. In it, HAL, a dangerous supercomputer, shows that technology could be destructive, warning us to be careful as we progress. (You know, I've always thought those new iMacs looked a little suspicious...
...program also will focus on the emotional odyssey Gates embarked on when he returned to the cradle of black civilization...
Reflecting after the forum on his years at the College, Navarrette--author of A Darker Shade of Crimson: Odyssey of a Harvard Chicano--said he was proud of the symbolic significance of the evening's panel...
...musical odyssey began early. My father, a trumpet player in the People's Liberation Army, began teaching me when I was 14. My tastes were strictly classical. In 1981 I joined the Beijing Symphony Orchestra and played in it for seven years. Things began to change in 1985, though, when the group Wham! gave a concert in Beijing. A year later, I heard my first Beatles tape. I learned to play an electric guitar. After that 1986 concert, I formed a band and made rock my life...