Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:55:58 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Only the good die young?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> kfl at KeithLynch.net 09/10/03 10:30PM
>There were two SF-related deaths yesterday.  No, neither one was an
>author or a fan (as far as I know).  But one was a ground-breaking
>controversial film-maker whose movie scenes inspired similar scenes
>in numerous later SF and fantasy movies made all over the world.

Leni Riefenstahl

>
>The other was an inventor whose Device inspired more SF books, short
>stories, movies, TV mini-series, etc., than any other single invention
>ever.

Edward "Boom boom, out go the lights" Teller

>
>Both were quite elderly.

She 101, he 95.

>Both had done their best work in the 1930s
>and 1940s.  Both were hated by millions of people.  Both were admired
>by millions of people.  Both lived lives more remarkable than most
>fictional characters.

mjw