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describing himself as a "hyperven¬
tilating maniac" who had been op-
timisticaboutllfesince May 24,1932,
when, at 12 years old, he read in the
newspaper that the world was
scheduled to end the next day.
"Wecould hardly wait," hesaid
of himself and his brother. "We got
up early, packed a lunch..." He and
his brother took their lunches, which
consisted primarily of Orange
Crush, and sat on a hill on the out¬
skirts ofTusoon, waiting for the end.
By 5 p.m the world stiU hadn't
ended, so they "threw up and went
home.
"And I haven't believed in the
' end of the world since"
Since then, Bradbury said, pas-'
sions have shaped his life.
Libraries, Buck Rogers and
Prince Valiant comics, movies, di¬
nosaurs and more recently, restau¬
rants, architecture and urban plan¬
ning have been Bradbury's loves in
life.
V "Libraries are the center of my
existence," he said. "Are you library
people? Do you ever go in and just
smell the books? Ifs super. Ifs
wonderful*'
The author signed copies of his
latest book, "Yestermorrow," and
told the audience he has a play
openingin Los Angeles in two weeks
and another book coming out in
five weeks.
He has written at least one short
story a week for the paat 57 years, he
"After awhile you learn to write
pretty well," he said.,
"The Martian Chronicles," one
of Bradbury's best-known books,
came to pass when Bradbury's wife
became pregnant and he tooka four-
day Greyhound bus ride to New
York City with a bundle of his short
stories, a typewriter, and no pros¬
pects.
("Ha veyou e vertsa veiled across
country for four days? Don't")
Every editor he spoke to wanted
a novel Over dinner one night, a
GO AHEADt MAKE YOUR DAY.
Now The Far Side is as near as
your personal computer
Thats right Now you can gaze
into your screen and savor a daily
dose of dementia straight from
the mind of Gary Larson.
While you're at it, you $an or¬
ganize, view and print out your
schedule by the day, thewseek, the
month or the whole year.
You can plug in recurring
events on a weekly/bi-weekly or
monthly basis.
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make random appearances on
your screen.
So what do you do, 366 days
from now, when you run out of
cartoons?
Simple Just load a refill and
get ready to laugh and scratch
your way through another year.
The Far Side Computer Calendar
is available at your dealer.
Or call 1-800-367-4802 Dept CO.
If we were you, we wouldn't
wait another day. Two days, max.
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Doubleday editor said, "How about
aU those martJan stories? Couldn't
they be put together?" The editor
told him to go back to the Y, "stay
up all night* and put together an
outline, and if he liked it, he'd buy it
from Bradbury.
So Bradbury did just that, and
the next day the editor gave him a
$700 advance.     *. \ . /
Another break came in 1953,
when John Huston caUed Bradbury
at the Venice apartment he shared
with his wife and asked him if he'd
like to travel to Ireland and write
the screenplay for "Moby Dick."
"I tokl him, 'Gee, Mr. Huston,
I've never been able to read the damn
thing.'"
Another all-nighter ensued—
Huston told Bradbury to go home
and reed as much as he could and
come back in the morning
Bradbury went home, read 200
pages, got motivated, went back the
next morning and told Huston he
could do die job.
Bradbury went on to write for
•Alfred Hitchcock Presents' and
"The Twilight Zone," and eventu¬
ally his own "Ray Bradbury Thea¬
ter" on cable, in addition to his
numerous other literary endeavors.
Then came the architecture. .
Bradbury was idea consultant
and writer of the scenario for the
United States PaviUion at the 1964
World's Fair in New York. He also
conceived the metaphors for Space¬
ship earth, Disney World, EPCOT,
and contributed to the Orbitron
space ride at Euro-Disney in France.
More recently he has been a crea¬
tive consultant for major malls in
Southern California.
The marriage of the romantic lit¬
erary genius with the practical, exu¬
berant architect and idea man has
ruled Bradbury's head with grand
iUusions for the future of urban
America.
"American cities need to be re¬
built," he said. "All of New York, aU
of Chicago, most of the major
dries... i don't know w ha t your prob¬
lems are downtown; is the mayor
here?** (She wasn't)      r
In his vision for Amencan cities,
Bradbury pointed out a "symbiotic
relationship" between shopping
and food, cinema and books.
"When you come out of a great
movie, you're hungry. You want to
eat a book," he said.
Similarly, when people shop,
they really just want to eat, he said.
He described a successful urban
area as a place with-Thirty restau¬
rants, and thousands of chairs out¬
side and the world's greatest book¬
store. And it aU has to be open on the
same nights."
Bar such grandiose restrucrur-
ingor urban areas, Bradbury pointed
to corporate backing*
"(Corporations) have got to be
more creative than the govemmer.t
If the government makes a mistake
they just tax you. If a corporation
makes a mistake it goes out of busi¬
ness," he said.
Bradbury's awards include the
O. Henry Memorial award, the
Ben jarnin Franklin award, the World
Fantasy Award for lifetime achieve¬
ment and tfTe Grand Master Award
from the Science Fiction Writers of
America. *
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