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Article: Ray Bradbury gets last laugh on Earth-bound
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 26, 1996
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"Masters of Fantasy: Ray Bradbury" (6 p.m. Thursday on Sci-Fi;
repeated 10 p.m.) starts with a bang.
The 75-year-old writer, eccentrically gotten up in tennis shorts,
Windbreaker, white shirt and dark tie, tells an unseen interviewer a
tale of revenge a true one, he swears. Back in the early '50s, when
Bradbury would hold forth on the future of space travel,
acquaintances mockingly greeted him with "Hey, Buck Rogers!" or
"Hey, Flash Gordon!"
Bradbury, a sensitive sort, took umbrage. He also took down the
doubters' telephone numbers, he says, for no other reason than to be
able to call each of them when his predictions came true, crow
"Stupid sonofabitch!" into the phone and hang up.
Which ...