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	The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (Doubleday science fiction) Edifying Spectacle
		The title story, i suppose it's the basis for the Robin Williams film i haven't seen, is the rather unsatisfying telling of a robot's limiting itself ever more narrowly in the search to become human; this has always, to my mind, been one of the poorer stories in the collection: Andrew's motivation is not...
		The story is one of great peril as Andrew a robot fights for acceptance in society, then fights for the right to freedom to later wanting to look human and to...
		The heartfelt story of an unordinary robot named Andrew who wishes to become a human being; or more a person under philosophical terms is an extraordinary achievement that has sparked great interest into the genre.
	edifyingspectacle.org /thanks/asinsearch_0385121989

	"RWF" Bicentennial Man Production Notes
		Touchstone Pictures and Columbia Pictures present A 1492 Pictures Production in association with Laurence Mark Productions and Radiant Productions, "Bicentennial Man." Directed by Chris Columbus, from a screenplay by Nicholas Kazan, the film is based upon the short story by Isaac Asimov and the novel The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg.
		"Bicentennial Man" spans two centuries, during which it is the goal of a single individual whose quest is to learn all he might about the intricacies of humanity, life and love.
		As Asimov himself describes in his book The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories, he was approached in January 1975 to be a participating writer for the anthology.
	www.robin-williams.net /bicentennialnotes.htm

	The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The latter was expanded into a novel, The Positronic Man (with Robert Silverberg), which formed the basis of the 1999 Touchstone Pictures film " Bicentennial Man ".
		Two of the stories, "Feminine Intuition" and "The Bicentennial Man", were inspired by Judy-Lynn del Rey.
		The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories is a science fiction anthology written and edited by
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Bicentennial_Man_and_Other_Stories

	Bicentennial Man
		Perhaps waiting for this movie to come out on video and exercising the fast-forward button on the remote may be the most effective way to get the most life out of Bicentennial Man.
		His wish is to be treated as a human being brings to mind the speeches of Martin Luther King and others like him who have sought so valiantly to stand shoulder to shoulder with their fellow man. It's a noble and just cause, and this film proffers a worthy allegory for it.
		Based in part on two stories by Isaac Asimov, Bicentennial Man follows the 200-year life of a robot searching for identity, friendship, love and ultimately, humanity.
	www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0000579.cfm

	Fiction into Film List: Bicentennial Man
		Collected in The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976) by Isaac Asimov
		The Positronic Man (1993) by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg
		Stories from mythology are not works of fiction in the traditional sense (they don't have a single author, there is typically no definitive version, etc.).
	fictionintofilm.trawna.com /movie/67

	SPLICEDwire "Bicentennial Man" review (1999)
		Because "Bicentennial Man" covers 200 years, Columbus is forced to be even more simplistic than usual (a 2-year-old in a coma could follow this plot) and can't stick around long enough to give any moment of the film genuine life.
		"Bicentennial Man" is more of the same, the only significant difference being in this picture his eyelids make a motorized hum every time he bats, because in "Bicentennial Man" Williams plays a robot.
		If it weren't a seat-squirming 131 minutes, it could even be seen as a passable holiday family flick by folks who aren't fed up with Williams' tears-of-a-clown routine.
	www.splicedonline.com /99reviews/bicentennial.html (612 words)

	HOLLOW MAN Jerry Goldsmith @ Cinemusic Online
		After practically a year long break from the film scoring world, Jerry Goldsmith has finally returned with his new score for HOLLOW MAN, the new film of one of Goldsmith's long time collaborators, Paul Verhoven.
		The score is not worthy of all the hype that was surrounding its release, much as James Horner's return effort after an extended break, BICENTENNIAL MAN, failed to turn a new page for him.
		Goldsmith's new work opens with the title track, "The Hollow Man." The track opens with some light synth percussion, before moving into a synth statement of the score's main theme.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2000/hollow_man.html (612 words)

	Bicentennial Man
		Bicentennial Man is almost a compilation of some his best work for films of this sort.
		After a break that spanned a year, James Horner is back in the ears of film score fans with his latest composition for the Chris Columbus film Bicentennial Man.
		The main theme of Bicentennial Man is used as the theme for Celine Dion's vocal exercise on lyricist, Will Jennings average contribution.
	www.tracksounds.com /reviews/bicentman.htm (811 words)

	BICENTENNIAL MAN James Horner@ Cinemusic Online
		BICENTENNIAL MAN is a never-ending slush of emotional music that washes over you until you're too tired to fight it.
		While the controversy of Horner's BICENTENNIAL score has since drifted away (this review comes on the eve of the video/DVD release) it should regain some steam once the film, which tanked at the box office, gathers some home video audience.
		Horner still is a master of reading drama and spotting film, and, amid the lack of total originality, he has created a truly magical album, and has once again shown why he is one of the most sought after composers in Hollywood today.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2000/bicentennial_man.html (971 words)

	Media Man
		, produced for screening at the Bicentennial conference of the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations held in Los Angeles, two films on the role of Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive and a film about the role of the National Maritime Museum which was presented to American President, Ronald Reagan, in 1988.
		His Bicentennial Minutes series was unique in Australian TV history – 266 separate mini documentaries shot on 350 locations which ran throughout 1988 on the Seven Network.
		minutes to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.
	www.mediaman.com.au /profiles/luck.html (582 words)

	Bicentennial Man
		Unfortunately, I didn't get sick 45 minutes into Bicentennial Man, and my stomach was able to make it through the remainder of the film's running time; another hour full of sickening, sugar-coated, artificial sentimentality that, by the end, had me wanting to puke.
		The first, non-vomit-inducing 45 minutes of Bicentennial Man, is a story of a family trying to adjust to living with a robot, and a robot trying to adjust to the family that's trying to adjust to it.
		In a perfect world, I would have gotten sick with a stomach virus 45 minutes into this film, ran out of the theater, puked all over the place, and then proceeded to leave with a smile on my face.
	www.juicycerebellum.com /199930.htm (641 words)

	MMI Movie Review: Bicentennial Man
		But all of the hype-machine glosses over that "BiCentennial Man" is based on a short story from the legendary science fiction of Isaac Asimov, and thankfully the films creators DIDN'T forget, and the film actually depicts the tale of Asimov's "Positronic Man", surprisingly well.
		The "Bicentennial Man", played by Williams, follows the human growth of a domestic servant robot named Andrew over his (or should I say "it's"?) 200 year long lifespan.
		The majority of the film is a slice of meaningful science fiction, asking us to question what it means to be human and the importance of being unique, through the eyes of an android.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/bicentennialman-pp-85374927.html (388 words)

	Filmtracks: Bicentennial Man (James Horner)
		Bicentennial Man: (James Horner) After somewhat of a break from the film scoring spotlight, James Horner returns to center stage with his only composition of 1999.
		The thematic material in Bicentennial Man has the same string intensity and delicate piano as Legends of the Fall as the score progresses, and the song by Celine Dion (though not original, we must all believe), is an adequate interpretation and performance of the title theme.
		The score for Bicentennial Man is an extension of the wedding track in Deep Impact (which, if you enjoyed that theme, might startle you with the similarities between it and the main title theme of this score), and the fantastical forest sequences in The Spitfire Grill.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/bicentennial.html (1532 words)

	Bicentennial Man Reviews
		BICENTENNIAL MAN A film review by Christopher Null Copyright 1999 filmcritic.com filmcritic.com more
		You may assume “Bicentennial Man” is just going to be another sentimental Robin Williams vehicle dripping with fabricated emotions and melodrama.
		BICENTENNIAL MAN (Touchstone/Columbia) Starring: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Oliver Platt, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Kiersten Warren, Wendy Crewson.
	www.killermovies.com /b/bicentennialman/reviews (756 words)

	Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In science fiction AI is commonly portrayed as an upcoming power trying to overthrow human authority as in HAL 9000, Skynet, Colossus and The Matrix or as service humanoids like C-3PO, Data, the Bicentennial Man, the Mechas in A.I. or Sonny in I, Robot.
		AI systems are now in routine use in economics, medicine, engineering and the military, as well as being built into many common home computer software applications, traditional strategy games like computer chess and other video games.
		The 1990s marked major achievements in many areas of AI and demonstrations of various applications.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Artificial_Intelligence (1224 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: A .I. Artificial Intelligence
		I thought that "A.I" would be everything "Bicentennial Man" was not; I thought it would be a more intelligent and dramatic.
		The film was a little long and a little boring...but because none of the ignorant teenagers that I was unfortunate enough to see the film with walked out I guess it must not have been that bad.
		All of the actors in the film do a decent job, but none of the characters are interesting, and some are very inconsistent.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/ai.html (798 words)

	Film & TV: Bicentennial Man (Austin Chronicle . 12-20-99)
		Columbus' new film, based on Isaac Asimov's novella The Positronic Man with a script by Nick Kazan, mostly forsakes the comic underpinnings of Williams' recent career in favor of existentialism and Deep Questions regarding the nature of man, machine, and where the two might merge.
		Parents in search of the next Williams holiday hootenanny will apparently have to wait until next year for sheer pratfalls; Bicentennial Man is more a meditation on the nature of life itself than anything else, and a welcome respite from Robin Williams, the emotion sponge.
		Robins plays Andrew, a household servant-cum-android who, in 2005, arrives into the wealthy household of Sir (Neill), his wife Ma'am (Crewson), and their two young daughters, Miss (Letherman) and Little Miss (Eisenberg, late of IFC and Pepsi commercials).
	weeklywire.com /ww/12-20-99/austin_screens_film2.html (579 words)

	Positronic Man, The - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		I have read this book several times, before and after seeing the film of bicentennial man which is basically the same story with a different name.
		Positronic Man, The : Is it human or robot?
		This book starts off by describing the setting: the family of the story is the Martin family of which there are many generations within the book.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/positronic-man-the (122 words)

	Bicentennial Man
		The lack of any real conflict makes Bicentennial Man seem even longer than it is; it has no momentum at all, but is a series of episodes that fail to have a cumulative dramatic impact.
		Someday, a different director will take this story and make a real movie out of it, a movie that uses the superb visual storytelling capability of the medium to follow Andrew's exploration of what humanity is about without sentimentality, without spelling-it-all-out, without pandering to the lowest common denominator in the audience.
		There is a lot of charm, but it isn't charm rooted in the very individuality the film claims to espouse.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/BicentennialMan.html (649 words)

	village voice > film > Bicentennial Man by Jessica Winter
		We're supposed to be weeping because Williams's compatriots have all been "deleted" or "reprogrammed" by their manufacturer, since a systems glitch invested them with emotions and an inkling of free will: scary stuff for the suits who created them.
		"It is a household appliance and yet you act like it was a man," The Man says nervously to Williams's sympathetic owner (Sam Neill, playing a disposable income in a Polo sweater and penny loafers).
		Based upon the eponymous short story and the novel The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/9951/winter.shtml (197 words)

	Where @ Lebanon.com - Entertainment - Cinema
		Directed by Chris Columbus, from a screenplay by Nicholas Kazan, the film is based upon the short story by Isaac Asimov and the novel The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg.
		Columbia Pictures'/Touchstone Pictures' "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks.
		As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.
	www.lebanon.com /where/entertainment/cinema152.htm (180 words)

	Isaac Asimov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One such short story, "The Bicentennial Man", was made into a film starring Robin Williams.
		The recent film I, Robot, starring Will Smith, was based on the Hardwired script by Jeff Vintar with Asimov's ideas incorporated later after acquiring the rights to the I, Robot title.
		McCartney had a vague idea for the plot and a small scrap of dialogue; he wished to make a film about a rock band whose members discover they are being impersonated by a group of extraterrestrials.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Asimov (6852 words)

	Fiction Into Film Database: Bicentennial Man
		Collected in The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976) by Isaac Asimov
		The Positronic Man (1993) by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg
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	fifdb.com /movie/67 (366 words)

	Abraham Lincoln Institute Who We Are
		She is the recipient of a Huntington Library Fellowship, two Travel Grants from the NEH, a Mellon Travel Grant, fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Humanities at the University of Virginia and the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University, and other grants and fellowships.
		Active as a public historian, he has been a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, the National Archives, the National Park Service, an off-Broadway play, and film and radio documentaries.
		He is a member of the scholarly advisory committee of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, and a board member of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, the Lincoln Studies Center (Knox College), and the Supreme Court Historical Society.
	www.lincoln-institute.org /whoweare.html (4042 words)

	Designtechnica Forums - View Single Post - I, Robot ....
		The latter was expanded into a novel, The Positronic Man (with Robert Silverberg), which formed the basis of the 1999 Touchstone Pictures film "Bicentennial Man".
		Two of the stories, "Feminine Intuition" and "The Bicentennial Man", were inspired by Judy-Lynn del Rey.
		"The Bicentennial Man" (Judy-Lynn del Rey, ed., Stellar Science Fiction #2, 1976)
	forums.designtechnica.com /showpost.php?p=30495&postcount=16 (116 words)

	Steve Wang's Biomorphs Inc. - Collector's masks and Halloween masks
		Steve's twenty two year special effects make-up career boasts work on the 1985 film HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS, which won an Academy Award for best Make-up Effects for Rick Baker, plus work on two additional Academy Award nominated films, 1987 film PREDATOR (Stan Winston) and the 1999 film BICENTENNIAL MAN (Greg Cannom).
		Steve Wang is an award-winning Hollywood renaissance man: producer, director, screenwriter, and special effects make-up artist.
		Competitively priced, these masks include memorable pieces from Steve's films, as well as original designs for this line.
	www.bio-morphs.com /about.htm (170 words)

	Steve Wang's Biomorphs Inc. - Collector's masks and Halloween masks
		Steve's twenty two year special effects make-up career boasts work on the 1985 film HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS, which won an Academy Award for best Make-up Effects for Rick Baker, plus work on two additional Academy Award nominated films, 1987 film PREDATOR (Stan Winston) and the 1999 film BICENTENNIAL MAN (Greg Cannom).
		Steve Wang is an award-winning Hollywood renaissance man: producer, director, screenwriter, and special effects make-up artist.
		Competitively priced, these masks include memorable pieces from Steve's films, as well as original designs for this line.
	www.bio-morphs.com /about.htm (170 words)

	Beautiful - Natural Spirit Ministries
		A little bit of Hallie Kate Eisenberg ( Bicentennial Man, Paulie), however, goes a long way and her character precariously borders on being utterly obnoxious (from both a precocious and irritating fashion) throughout the whole film.
		Although her mother, Nedra (LINDA HART) and her man friend, Lurdy (BRENT BRISCOE), didn't support Mona when she was a teen, she did receive help and encouragement from Verna Chickle (KATHLEEN TURNER), a former beauty queen and local talent trainer.
		An odd and disjointed mixture of satire, straight comedy and syrupy melodrama, the film simply doesn't work and isn't likely to be wearing any box office or Oscar crowns anytime in what will certainly be its short theatrical lifespan.
	www.christianity.com /CC/article/0,,PTID19179CHID119948CIID156506,00.html (170 words)

	Filmtracks: The Perfect Storm (James Horner)
		For the devoted film score fan, however, The Perfect Storm will simply lead down the same thematic and repetitive path of Deep Impact and Bicentennial Man.
		For a new collector of film music, The Perfect Storm will likely be exciting and inspiring (four stars and no less), but for the experienced Horner collectors, the score will provide ten minutes of new, noteworthy material and the rest might either bore you or seem as unpleasant as swallowing seawater.
		It is with absolutely no doubt that the music for The Perfect Storm will certainly blow up a not-so-rogue wave of criticism from those film music fans who hear his previous works in everything new he presents.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/perfect_storm.html (1651 words)

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