Terrence Bosky writes “From Scifi.com: “ER’s Noah Wyle is set to star in the TNT original movie The Librarian, the network announced. Wyle will play the titular character, who is responsible for a massive repository of secret treasures hidden beneath the New York Public Library.” More here from SciFi.com“
Rochelle adds that there are about a million stories about this week’s opening of the weather disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” all of which refer to a scene in which people burn books at the New York Public Library in order to stay warm. Here’s a choice blurb from a review in the Wichita Eagle.
Just barely, the movie does fly. Emmerich carves out moments of humor that deepen the emotions of the story, like when the New York librarians refuse to allow frigid survivors in the library to burn books for warmth, then insist only bad books can be incinerated.
I think I will go see the movie just to see what “bad” books NYPLers use to stoke the fire.
The Day After Tomorrow
This is just another disaster flick that people will sneer at with, “It’s sci-fi, for gosh sake!”, but it seems to be based on a scientific hypothesis.
The Coming Global Superstorm
Art Bell & Whitley Streiber -1999
ISBN 0-671-04191-6
Dewey # 551.6 B433C
Some interesting ideas in this one.
Oh, and a note to those who prefer to sneer at what they don’t understand: The names of the authors do not invalidate the ideas or any information. If you read the book, just ignore the fictitious vignettes between the non-fiction sections.
Day After Tomorrow
Remember the “big bug”movies of the fifties that told of horrible creatures from nuclear testing. What about movies about genetic tampering? All these make for potential special effects and excitement. Willis’ movie Armegeddon had many sciencific inaccuracies. What makes the Day after Tomorrow any different? It is just a movie. Why did they burn books in the NYPL to keep warm there is plenty of wood in that building. Burning books is a scarier part than the ridiculous plot.
If books are burned whose preference are being met? I suppose the answer depends on a liberal or conservative viewpoint. Why this illustration? Seems like a job for the SRRT.