1) I'm reminded of "Asterix and Cleopatra".Originally Posted by chirine ba kal
2) "Hi, honey, I'm home."
3) In 1963 I'm surprised they got away with some of the outfits some of the female dancers were wearing.
1) I'm reminded of "Asterix and Cleopatra".
2) "Hi, honey, I'm home."
3) In 1963 I'm surprised they got away with some of the outfits some of the female dancers were wearing.
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Check out the belly dancers at the beginning of the 1965 version of She. One of the dancers is prominently displayed wearing a similar outfit.
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How did that come about? Was he a personal friend or correspondent of Jack Vance?
By the way, Vance was far from inaccessible to fans, he seems to have had a wafer-thin gruff exterior but was a great gentleman and became friends with many fans. I heard that a fan phoned him out of the blue as recently as 2010 and chatted with him for two hours.
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I believe a correspondent. Phil was quite active in SF fandom as a young man.
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Not really; this was when burlesque was still going; remember the half-time entertainer at the World Con in '76?
Yes, to both. Phil - he was still 'Phillip Barker' at the time - drew the first maps of the Dying Earth for Jack Vance as part of his fan activites. As OG says, they wrote back and forth over the years that Phil was in fandom.
Kinda makes an interesting sidelight on all those discussions of 'Vancian magic in D&D' you see go by on the Internet, don't it? Phil was very familiar with the concept - would anyone like to consider the 'Eyes' and their 'spells in storage' in light of this?
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I'd post the drawing from "Asterix", but I don't know how, in my internet illiteracy...
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And remember the statue of Horus on the giant palanquin that Phil would always trot out with great ceremony when his beloved Egyptians were getting chased off the table again?
It got to the point where you wanted to fight his 25mm Egyptian army just to make him bring out the whole parade of flower-flingers, dancing girls, priests, trumpeters, drummers, more priests, standard-bearers, the palanquin on the shoulders of 36 shaven High Priests, fan-bearers, more priests, and so on, and so on, and so on. The whole procession took up about three feet on the table when in full cry; the best part was phil reading the invocations to the God off of Horus' throne - in the original...
Oh, those were the days! When men were men, miniatures were cheap, and sheep were careful! (Paraphrased from Firesign Theater's hilarious performance of "Gonad the Barbarian!" at the Kansas City World Con...)
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"No not me, no not....!"
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For that matter, though the Temple of Vimuhla was a tour de force, Phil's 12th - 13th century Anglo-Norman castle and outlying walls were no slouch either!
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The Eyes are a kind of Vancian magic I like much better than the original, that's for sure!Yes, to both. Phil - he was still 'Phillip Barker' at the time - drew the first maps of the Dying Earth for Jack Vance as part of his fan activites. As OG says, they wrote back and forth over the years that Phil was in fandom.
Kinda makes an interesting sidelight on all those discussions of 'Vancian magic in D&D' you see go by on the Internet, don't it? Phil was very familiar with the concept - would anyone like to consider the 'Eyes' and their 'spells in storage' in light of this?
Ooo! ooo! Whole new Internet mythology gets started right here on The RPG Site!!!
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