7/24/2009.
Amazon.com is selling the complete 5 disc Ray Bradbury Theater DVD set for only $10.49!!!


Get one NOW!!!
But two and use one as a gift!!!


Amazon - Ray Bradbury Theater

The price is up to 16.99 now. Hopefully somebody got one cheap.

Weird. It's back to $10.49 a few minutes later.

Now at THAT price, I wouldn't complain about the abysmal picture quality on these DVDs!

Yeah, 16 cents per episode is not bad.

I've seen all of the episodes. Does Ray appear, besides the opening, in any of the episodes? I thought I might have seen him in one or two of the early ones.

He's not actually in them as such, but a few of the early ones have little dramatic preludes in which he acts. Sometimes he just talks to the camera and shows some curio in his office, but on at least one occasion he is acting away with a "proper" thesp.

After the first few , it was decided that it was too expensive to film customised intros from Ray, so they switched to just the generic opening sequence.

I'm not certain that the DVD set captures all of these intros. It has some, but I fear that there may be others that have been lost from this set.

[Curio and/or thesp are good words.]

I recall reading that it is not actualy RB walking into the office at the very opening of the Theater episodes (back to the camera)!

fjp is correct, when you see the hand opening the door, followed by the legs walking through: it's not the real Ray. When he has his back to the camera, though, I think that IS the real Ray, because I think the shot develops so that we see him in profile.

I always thought the walking shot looked hokey, but it is probably attributable to some poor stand-in trying, self-consciously, to imitate Ray's walk. I have a vague recollection that the stand-in was an assistant director or somesuch.

I disremember the name of the stand-in, but he is used because Ray was ill on that day of filming (bad cold or flu if I recall).

Disremember is a good word.

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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:
...Disremember is a good word.

But too close to 'dismember' for my liking.

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Originally posted by philnic:
But too close to 'dismember' for my liking.

Remember that low-budget slasher film from a few years ago - I Dismember Mama?

Groan.

Animal Farm, Ch. 8 - conclusion: (After the lead pig Napoleon consumed a cask of whiskey found in the farmhouse, became ill, and a day later had overcome his hangover)

"About this time there occurred a strange incident which hardly anyone was able to understand. One night at about twelve o’clock there was a loud crash in the yard, and the animals rushed out of their stalls. It was a moonlit night. At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint-brush, and an overturned pot of white paint. The dogs immediately made a ring round Squealer, and escorted him back to the farmhouse as soon as he was able to walk. None of the animals could form any idea as to what this meant, except old Benjamin, who nodded his muzzle with a knowing air, and seemed to understand, but would say nothing.

But a few days later Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which THE ANIMALS HAD REMEMBERED IT WRONG. They had thought the Fifth Commandment was ‘No animal shall drink alcohol,’ but there were two words that they had forgotten. Actually the Commandment read: ‘No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.’"

Nice tie in for my lessons tomorrow to end Orwell's classic, AF -

"Comrade Napolean Yeltsin": from a USA Today article

He also relayed how Boris Yeltsin's late-night drinking during a visit to Washington in 1995 nearly created an international incident. The Russian president was staying at Blair House, the government guest quarters. Late at night, Clinton told Branch, Secret Service agents found Yeltsin clad only in his underwear, standing alone on Pennsylvania Avenue and trying to hail a cab. He wanted a pizza, he told them, his words slurring.

The next night, Yeltsin eluded security forces again when he climbed down back stairs to the Blair House basement. A building guard took Yeltsin for a drunken intruder until Russian and U.S. agents arrived on the scene and rescued him.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/w...-clinton-tapes_N.htm