The Bradbury Chronicles (48 page)

Moby Dick
(film), 37, 210–32, 245, 300, 306, 316, 325

casting for, 227

Hollywood premiere of, 238–39

Moby-Dick
(Melville), 210–12, 215–19, 221–22, 225

Mogen, David, 32, 124

Mollé Mystery Theater
(radio program), 139

Moore, Michael, 330–31

Morey, Miss, 35

Mortimer, John, 307–9

Mr. Electrico, 56–59, 123, 329

Mugnaini, Joseph, 4, 184–86, 188–89, 237, 258–59, 265, 287, 288, 320

mummies, of Guanajuato, 128, 141

Murphy, George, 74

Music Box, The
(film), 295

“My Demon, Not Afraid of Happiness” (Bradbury), 38

 

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), 276–78, 299–300

Nation,
206

National Book Foundation, 4, 20, 323–24

National Endowment of the Arts, 331–32

Newman, Paul, 273–74, 280

New Tales of Space and Time
(Bradbury), 254

New York City, 293

RB's trips to, 93–97, 141–44, 152, 154–57, 169, 214–15, 320, 323–24

New Yorker,
121, 136, 142, 146, 151, 188

New York Times,
204, 208, 275

New York World's Fair (1939), 93, 97

New York World's Fair (1964), 262–64, 268–69, 272, 284, 296, 297

“Next in Line, The” (Bradbury), 131, 141

Nicholas, Nancy, 319

Nichols, Nichelle, 262

“Night, The” (Bradbury), 135

Nixon, Richard M., 194, 195

Nixon, Tommy, 315

Nolan, Phil, 45

Nolan, William F., 57, 115, 239, 296, 298, 314, 329

“No Man Is an Island” (Bradbury), 195

Nomland, John, 148

“Nothing in the Dark” (Johnson), 265

 

October Country, The
(Bradbury), 122, 236–37, 255, 260, 286

Of Time and the River
(Wolfe), 91–92

O. Henry Prize Stories of 1947, The,
144, 177

O. Henry Prize Stories of 1948, The,
151, 163, 177

Once Upon a Time
(fairy tale collection), 30

One Book, One City project, 77–78

One More for the Road
(Bradbury), 298, 326

“One Timeless Spring” (Bradbury), 124–25, 129, 134, 298

On the Diamond
(anthology), 54

Open Book
(Huston), 212, 221, 227

Orwell, George, 172, 209

“Other Foot, The” (Bradbury), 54, 166, 168, 178, 182, 201

“Our General Petroleum” (radio show), 75

Outsider and Others, The
(Lovecraft), 101

Oz
series (Baum), 30, 41, 42, 43, 198

 

Pandemonium Theatre Company, 7, 270–71, 326

Pangborn, Frank, 75

Pantheon Books, 236

Paramount Studios, 69, 70, 73, 76, 305–6, 307

Paris, 8, 127–28, 215, 216–17, 291, 292–93, 304, 315

Paris Review,
262

Parsons, Jack, 85

Parsons, Louella, 75–76

Paul, Frank R., 43, 95–96

Pearl, The
(film), 129

Pearl Harbor, bombing of, 105–6

Peck, Gregory, 227, 230, 239

Peckinpah, Sam, 304–7

“Pedestrian, The” (Bradbury play), 270

“Pedestrian, The” (Bradbury story), 199–200, 201

“Pendulum” (Bradbury and Hasse), 104–5, 106

“Perhaps We Are Going Away” (Bradbury), 169

Phantom of the Opera, The
(movie), 34–35, 49

Picasso, Pablo, 281

Picasso Summer
(film), 279–82

Pierce, Charles, 11

“Pillar of Fire” (Bradbury), 166

“Piper, The” (Bradbury), 104, 106

plagiarism, 186–87, 190, 253–54, 265

Planet Stories,
107, 108, 109, 154, 155, 156

Plato, 37

Playboy,
198, 229, 240, 281

“Playground, The” (Bradbury), 208

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1, 42, 44, 161, 169–70, 182, 229, 317

RB's imitation of, 81, 99, 103

“Poems, The” (Bradbury), 134, 141

Pohl, Frederik, 95

Porges, Irwin, 48

Porter, Katherine Anne, 103

Potter, Edwina, 94

Powell, Dick, 75

“Powerhouse” (Bradbury), 144, 151, 163, 188

prejudice and racism, 53–54, 155, 168, 188, 203

Prescott, Orville, 208

Presnell, Don, 250–51, 255

Price, Margaret Evans, 30

Probst, Beth, 222, 226

Probst, Len, 222, 226–27

“Promotion to Satellite” (Bradbury), 115

Proust, Marcel, 6, 7–8, 138, 329

Quicker than the Eye
(Bradbury), 298, 319

radio, 1, 40, 42–43, 64, 75–77, 84, 91, 161–62

Burns and Allen, 72, 76–77, 83

Golden Age of, 131, 145

news on, 105–6

RB's introduction to, 26–27, 68

RB's start in, 65–66, 83, 162

RB's work adapted for, 139–40, 179–80, 237

RB's writing for, 76, 83, 115, 143, 151

Ray Bradbury
(Eller and Touponce), 57–58, 134, 203

Ray Bradbury
(Johnson), 53

Ray Bradbury
(Mogen), 32

Ray Bradbury Companion, The,
296, 298

Ray Bradbury Review, The,
57–58

Ray Bradbury Theater, The
(TV show), 310–16

Red Badge of Courage, The
(film), 177–78

Reed, Carol, 246

“Remembrance” (Bradbury), 293–94

Remembrance of Things Past
(Proust), 8

“Renaissance Prince and the Baptist Martian, The” (Bradbury), 246–47

Republic, The
(Plato), 37

Republican Party, 289, 331

Bradbury's letter to, 195–96, 252

“Riabouchinska” (Bradbury radio piece), 151

R Is for Rocket
(Bradbury), 77, 263–64

Roberts, Garyn, 109

“Rocket, The” (Bradbury), 73

“Rocket Man, The” (Bradbury), 60, 166, 186–87

Rocklynne, Ross, 104

Roddenberry, Gene, 262

Rod Serling
(Sander), 265

Rogers, Will, 79

Roman Review, 83

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 72, 106, 193

Roque, Jacqueline, 281

Roswell, N. Mex., 35–36, 192

Rothman, Milton A., 96

“Run Fast, Stand Still, or The Thing at the Top of the Stairs, or New Ghosts from Old Minds” (Bradbury), 165

 

Salem Witch Trials, 16–17, 196, 199

Sander, George F., 265

San Diego International ComicCon, 5

Saturday Evening Post,
188, 190, 212, 240

Schary, Dore, 178

Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio, 158

Schorer, Mark, 160

Schulz, Charles, 285–86

Schwartz, Julius (Julie), 95, 96, 107, 329

as RB's agent, 95, 104, 106, 110, 115, 124, 147, 258

science fiction, 43, 45–47, 91–109, 191–92

conventions on, 93, 95–97

Los Angeles society for, 84–88, 91, 92, 98–101, 104–5, 107

RB mislabeled as writer of, 1–2, 30, 158–59, 166, 170, 171–72, 188, 203, 209, 255, 313

RB's avoidance of, 8, 176–77

RB's defense of, 206

RB's writing of, 38–39, 43, 87, 93, 99, 101–9, 116, 118, 146, 152, 153, 154, 187, 188, 191, 233, 263–64, 313, 332

stigma against, 164, 166, 171–72, 175

see also
specific works

Scott, David R., 284

Screenwriters Guild, 231, 234–35

Script,
102

Seidel, Fredrick, 38

Seldes, Tim, 256–57, 260

Serling, Carol, 251, 253

Serling, Rod, 250–51, 253–55, 261, 265, 311

Shakespeare, William, 1, 216, 330, 331

Sheedy, John E., 215

“Shopping for Death” (Bradbury), 237

“Silent Towns, The” (Bradbury), 253–54

Silver, Roy, 281

Silver Locusts, The
(Bradbury), 121, 181–83

Simon & Schuster, 129–30, 142, 146, 241, 260–61, 268, 283, 319

S Is for Space
(Bradbury), 263–64

Siskel, Gene, 310

Smight, Jack, 279–80

Smith, Charles Rome, 270–71, 326

Smith, Cordwainer, 38

Smith, Rita, 136, 142

Sneak Preview
(TV program), 259

Soma, Enrica (Ricki), 161–62, 177, 220–21, 224–25

“Someone in the Rain” (Bradbury), 52

Something Wicked This Way Comes
(Bradbury), 14, 16, 82, 131, 135, 147, 185, 257–62, 287, 314, 330

Something Wicked This Way Comes
(film), 48, 59, 304–10

Soul's Code, The
(Hillman), 38

“Sound of Summer Running, The” (Bradbury), 240–41

Soviet Union, 193, 263

Spaceship Earth, 297–98

space travel, 85, 255–56, 263–64, 268, 276–79, 282–83, 284, 299–300, 327, 332

Spaulding, Luther, 18

Spielberg, Steven, 11

Spier, William, 139–40, 145, 151

Sprague de Camp, L., 95, 115

Stark, Ray, 177, 196

Stebel, Sid, 173–74, 175, 192, 239, 329