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- Making the Nova program
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- The first that I heard of Nova was May, 1989. The director,
- Robin Bates, asked if I might be interested in working with him
- on making a Nova program. I discouraged him: I was busy in
- astronomy and was also finishing writing a book.
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- He again contacted me in September 1989 ... I agreed to work
- with him. There were several other productions being made
- around that time including Connie Chung/CBS and Yorkshire Television from
- Britain.
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- Nova's intent was not to discuss the ethics of computing.
- Rather, the show was "a documentary based on a story by Cliff Stoll".
- It was not a docudrama version of my book, The Cuckoo's Egg.
- It was written by Robin Bates and although I had some opportunity
- to review/revise the script, the final show was the responsibility
- of WGBH TV.
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- I volunteered to play myself in the show, as did everyone else,
- with the exception of the 4 cia spooks (they were played by some
- football coaches). It was filmed on location - at my old office
- in Berkeley, at my house in Oakland, and in Hannover, Germany.
- A few hours after I testified in Hess's espionage trial, they filmed
- the Hannover scenes. This was Jan - Feb, 1990.
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- I ad-libbed my parts. Typically, the script would say one thing,
- but it didn't feel natural, was factually wrong, or made a stupid point.
- So I'd invent as I went along, without prompts.
- Sometimes, this led to tension with the director: typically, he
- wanted me to stay in one place and not move around so much.
- ("Sit still! Don't move your hands! Don't twist your head!")
- Other times, he wanted unimportant things (like the shower scene
- or the cia spook scene) which, to me, conveyed little information.
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- The entire production was shot on 16mm film,
- which meant that for most scenes, we did exactly one take.
- With video work, you can do 5 or 10 retakes of each scene.
- Film's more expensive: I didn't have that liberty.
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- The part I'm most sensitive about is the last scene in the film.
- They took me to the forest where hacker Hagbard was found dead.
- I was moved by the solemnity of this place and event. The director
- suggested that I be more lighthearted, but I couldn't.
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- On the whole, it was fun. All the same, being momentarily famous
- is much less enjoyable than you might imagine. Indeed, if I had it
- to do over again, I'd certainly do things very differently.
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- >From Berkeley, my cheers & greetings to all!
- Cliff Stoll cliff@cfa.harvard.edu
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- Massive Service Outage In Northern Illinois (Oct 17, 1990)
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- Michael Glodek must feel like a million dollars today. He's the
- landscaper who was building a new lawn for a home at 3521 Madison
- Avenue in Oak Brook, IL on Monday morning when his digging machine
- uprooted what Illinois Bell termed a 'very major, very important' part
- of their interoffice network covering northern Illinois.
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- Glodek said, "I didn't do a JULIE beca