![]() ![]() “Canadian theater has lost one of its greatest talents and a guiding light in its development,” festival artistic director Antoni Cimolino said Sunday. His long association with Stratford included star turns as another “Hal” - King Henry V - in Henry V, which was made into a TV production in 1966 as Macbeth opposite Maggie Smith in 1978 as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice in 1996 and as Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons in 1998. Gone But Not Forgotten: Musicians We Lost in 2018 An inspired Kubrick reportedly had seen that film nearly a hundred times and certainly was aware of Rain’s abilities. Producer Ivor Powell (Alien, Blade Runner), who also worked on 2001, noted a few years ago that Rain had narrated a 1960 National Film Board of Canada short film called Universe. He made his Broadway bow in 1956 in Tamburlaine the Great at the Winter Garden Theatre, and a year later worked with fellow Canadian William Shatner in the movie Oedipus Rex, directed by Stratford co-founder Tyrone Guthrie. Rain came home in 1953 to become a co-founding member of Stratford Shakespearean Festival. In 1950, he left for a two-year apprenticeship at the Old Vic. “He was an artist, and he didn’t stoop to doing commercials.”īorn in 1928, Douglas Rain attended the University of Manitoba, worked in radio dramas and studied acting at the Banff School of Fine Arts in Alberta. “Rain was unmovable,” Segall wrote on his website in February 2017. ![]() Ken Segall, then Apple’s creative director at TBWA/Chiat/Day, wasn’t as lucky when the actor declined to participate in a Super Bowl commercial about the Y2K bug. Woody Allen convinced Rain to voice another evil computer in his futuristic comedy Sleeper (1973), and in 1984, Peter Hyams talked him into returning as HAL for the sequel 2010. 12, 1992, in Urbana, Illinois, also is a chess master and “enjoys working with people.” We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.” No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. Donation will be $285 + shipping.For the scenes on the set with Dullea - like when HAL famously says, “I am sorry, Dave, I am afraid I cannot do that” - the computer was voiced by assistant director Derek Cracknell, a Brit for scenes with Gary Lockwood, who played the astronaut Frank Poole, it was Kubrick who often supplied the lines.Īs Rain’s HAL tells a BBC reporter in the film: “The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. I'm taking orders now and expect to be able to start shipping these in about 4 to 6 weeks. "I detect an insufficient number of VCAs in your system." Other ideas? I'm looking for suggestions for a few more phrases, as there's still a bit of room on the speech board. Sorry, that can't be controlled and there's no option for hooking up an external output. The phrases play from a small internal speaker sequentially with a press of a little button on the panel. That should keep me out of audio copyright hot water. I've hired a great voice artist to recreate 16 iconic phrases from the original movie without the film's background noise. HAL's "eye" is a lens-like plastic dome which pulsates with a red LED and looks just like the original. Euro video below - MU video should follow shortly - and I apologize in advance for cross posting. The panels for both Euro and MU versions are black PCB material with lightly brushed "silver" features and white silk screened logo. ![]() I'm planning a limited run of "hand-built" HAL-9000 modules. ![]() Just wanted to let the cat out of the bag. ![]()
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