In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.

I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.