Bradbury vs. Moore

[DoverFrank]

Not sure this is new news but here it is...Letter to the editor

Style's June 4 Names & Faces column reported that novelist Ray Bradbury is upset about the title of Michael Moore's new documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11." He says that the filmmaker "stole" the title from his novel "Fahrenheit 451."

Is this the pot calling the kettle black?

The titles of several of Mr. Bradbury's greatest books are "stolen" from works by other authors, in a manner far more direct than Mr. Moore's allusion-to-but-not-complete-appropriation-of the Bradbury title.

Cases in point: "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (William Shakespeare); "I Sing the Body Electric!" (Walt Whitman) and "Golden Apples of the Sun" (William Butler Yeats).

ANNIE HUDSON


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8710-2004Jun26.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Welcome and thanks! That's the first

I'd heard this argument made.

[Sweetpea]

2. Ray Bradbury loves Bush

"What do you think of President Bush?

He's wonderful. We needed him. Clinton is a shithead and we're glad to be rid of him. And I'm not talking about his sexual exploits. I think we have a chance to do something about education, very important. We should have done it years ago. It doesn't matter who does it -- Democrats or Republicans -- but it's long overdue. Our education system is a monstrosity. We need to go back and rebuild kindergarten and first grade and teach reading and writing to everybody, all colors, and then the whole structure of our education will change because people will know how to read and write. "

Ray Bradbury from a salon.com interview in august 2001

<http://dir.salon.com/people/feature/2001/08/29/bradbury/index.html?pn=3>

[LTR]

3. Geez, I remember when his books denounced facism

He should re-read "F-451". It's a book about censorship and an overbearing government.