2001 Exhibit News |
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Volume 4 |
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Dec 30, 2000 |
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Issue 21 |
UPDATE - DEC 30, 2000: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2001!
- Greetings from the online 2001 exhibit coordinator.
Before I begin, let me make a few corrections:- The URL for the official Gary Lockwood web site is http://www.GaryLockwood2001.com and will be open for business Dec. 31st.
- The Retrospect page has not been working for two weeks without my knowledge and I apologize. Please resubmit your New Eve 2001 plans or 2001 story at http://www.2001exhibit.org/acceptit_3/ldisplay.cgi?deluxe
- The Best.Com 2001 web site is now disable. Please bookmark my new site, http://www.2001exhibit.org..
- There is a delay for the online Space:1999 exhibition for two weeks as my colleagues and I carefully go over the new 2001 site. But please SEND me your original model kits or original scratch built Space:1999 models (jpeg's) or artwork! This will be a forum to showcase your skills and love for Space:1999 as we've done on the 2001 web site.
- For UPDATES what is going on in the world of 2001, read the bottom of this email after this surprise greeting...
We are now close at hand to the final day of the 2oth Century and the first year of the new millennium we've all been anticipating since 1968. I remember when I sat in the Cinerama Theater in San Jose California in 1969 at age 11; I was hypnotized through the vision of Kubrick and Clarke that would bring me to this point of commemorating the film today. Although I never got the chance to see it's premier showing. I do recall going to the theater every weekend for a year, pressing my ear against the exit doors listening to the film and asking the employees for 2001 leaflets. They really got tired of me after awhile. There was not much to hear through those locked doors anyway but I took advantage of the opportunity until my late father took my brother and I to see 2001 four months before the first moon landing. Of course Neil Armstrong's One Small Step was influentialto me as well if not equaled.
This web site I created would not had been possible if it wasn't for the many people that are painted all over it. The next exhibit would not been possible either if the very same people didn't loan me their time, expertise and one of the kind items as well as their faith to get the ball rolling.
You know who you are.
For the support and encouragement to make this 2001 commemoration come alive, I want to thank the fans that visit the site every day by giving you a very special New Years email greeting from the participants and creators of 2001: A Space Odyssey. From Arthur C. Clarke, Gary Lockwood, Fredrick Ordway and the Moonwatcher himself, Dan Richter, they've have been kind enough to write me a few words for you.
"As we approach 2001, I send my greetings and best wishes to Dennis Gonzales and his colleagues.
Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation (and, I like to think, with far less apprehension). I have no idea why Stanley chose the year - it was his idea - but the intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the new century and millennium.
As I have told most interviewers in recent weeks, I will be trying to catch some sleep while the rest of you usher in 2001. Of course I'm glad to be here to welcome the year, and very sad that Stanley cannot join me."
Sir Arthur C. Clarke
27 December 2000
"Greeting to all fans of "2001" for the titular year 2001, and the real beginning of the New Millennium. What an exciting year ahead of us, with documentaries, interviews, lecture programs, exhibits, and showings relating to one of the greatest films in the history of cinema. I wish you all good luck. And may the grandeur of space, as visualized by Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, encourage the creation of a peaceful space-faring civilization."
Frederick I Ordway III
December 23, 2000
"Warmest Regards,
Approximately 8 months before I agreed to do the movie "2001" I had awakened one morning with an uplifting wave of excitement. All of us experience strange and unusual thought dreams and experiences but this particular moment was the forerunner to life-long change of events.
The expression, which came first the chicken or the egg, is applicable here.
I was always a sci-fi kind of guy but not much of a believer in paranormal activity. Anyway in this dream or vision I was overwhelmed by blue and white light and left with the understanding that I was going to get some kind of sci-fi type film. I told my best friend (Kurt Loewen) about what had occurred. I then put away a bottle of good champagne away and said we'll drink it before I leave.
Stanley Kubrick called my agency and offered me the part of Frank Poole and in early December of 1965 we drank the vino and I left for England.
The circle closed and my life has never been the same ever since."
Gary Lockwood
December 31, 2000
"Like Orwell's 1984, 2001 will pass behind us. It is strange to think that the year that has marked Stanley and Arthur's brilliant vision of the future will finally be the present. I have always felt that 2001 is about transitions, so in that sense it is appropriate. I want to wish you all a wonderful third millennium. When I threw that bone in the air thirty three years ago I had no idea it would travel so far."
Happy New Year.
Dan Richter
December 22, 2000
- ABCNews Online:
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2001: The Future Revisited Stanley Kubrick's classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey presents moviegoers with a vision of the future, as seen through 1968 eyes. So how much did Kubrick get right? Take a look at what was predicted and what has come to be:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/2001_001223.html
Posted by, Anonymous (Perhaps ABC? Who knows.)
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2001: The Future Revisited Stanley Kubrick's classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey presents moviegoers with a vision of the future, as seen through 1968 eyes. So how much did Kubrick get right? Take a look at what was predicted and what has come to be:
- KPIX News - Channel 5, San Francisco:
December 29, the news team shows a short retrospect about 2001: A Space Odyssey:
- http://kpix.com/
Posted by Ed Martinez. - What's in a name?
- Have you seen 2001 on anything lately, used as a metaphor or satire? Here is one sent to me by Brian D. Shook. Check out this ecard!
http://www.egreetings.com/m/recipient_main/egreetings/
EGCollectionPage/EGCollectionPage.jhtml?collectionId=8120
- Have you seen 2001 on anything lately, used as a metaphor or satire? Here is one sent to me by Brian D. Shook. Check out this ecard!
- When I sent off my last email subscribe list the other night, Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra on David Letterman were performing - you guessed it - 2001. Then this afternoon after discussing some last minute business with Gary Lockwood, my radio station was playing in the background - you guessed it - 2001. Gary said "Life is full of surprise." How true.
- Did I miss anything? Commercials, Magazines, Newspapers? You tell me. Send me your email and I'll post it next time.
Posted by Dennis Gonzales
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Dennis Gonzales
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