


George C. Scott and Stanley Kubrick playing chess on the set of Dr. Strangelove. Scott had an extremely volatile personality (he was renowned for bar brawls and heavy drinking) and Kubrick played chess with him between takes in order to ”tame him”. James Earl Jones said it was a way for Kubrick to prove himself to Scott, who fancied himself as a good chess player. Scott lost the first game to Kubrick. From there on Scott respected Kubrick and his vision.
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Great Garbage Patch
Photographer Chris Jordan specializes in large-scale works that depict the magnitude of our consumerism and its impact on our environment. In one of the most emotional presentations at PopTech 2009, Jordan shares heart-wrenching images of birds killed by ingesting plastics that increasingly pollute our oceans.
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The first and last mentions of Severus Snape.
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Stasi operative taking a picture of a CIA operative taking a picture of him, circa 1960.
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GUN MACHINE, my next novel, is due for release January 2013 in the US, I’ve just been told, and spring 2013 in the UK. From Mulholland Books.
I just started writing the novel that comes out after that, presumably in 2014. Because book publishing is slow.