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- From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei)
- Subject: Re: Bladerunner charector in BTAS (was BTAS 11/16: Heart of Steel)
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:19:58 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.171958.13910@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <Af28RqG00awAQ4o1MV@andrew.cmu.edu> <wf2Ex4e00ioCI4ukl9@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- In article <wf2Ex4e00ioCI4ukl9@andrew.cmu.edu>, Edward Liu <el24+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- > HARDAC calls his robot doubles "duplicants" -- echoing "replicants"
- > from Blade Runner. Also, (to finally address the article quoted
- > above), the voice for Rossen was done by William Sanderson, known for
- > playing (surprise!) J.F. Sebastian in _Blade Runner_.
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- Not to mention that Rossen LOOKED like Sanderson/Sebastian.
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- > Did anybody else catch any other sci-fi references in the episode?
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- Yes, the big, BIG, three stories high computer with art-deco curves and
- electrical arcs on top!! I hadn't seen one of those since the 40's!
- The only thing missing were the blinkenlights... :-)
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- The "RUR" in-joke I mentioned before. R.U.R. stands for Rossum's Universal
- Robots, and is the title of a 1920's play where the term "robot" was first
- introduced in the English language.
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