Harlan Ellison & Robin Williams on LRH
November 22, 2009 by XENU TV
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The great Harlan Ellison (one of my favorite writers) talks with Robin Williams about Hubbard. Ellison knew LRH dating back to the 50′s.
There’s a cool documentary for people like me that takes you inside Harlan’s world and his amazing home. Robin Williams is in that film as well.
Outside Ellsion's home
LRH was a rascal, and, like with Hugh Hefner, you’ve got to admire the balls in coming out and just doing it.
That said, this is turning out to be a great year for people blowing. DM must be frantic. I await the next development with Glee.
Keep up the fantastic work – much love.
Acording to Jeff Filbert, there were 3 people who were called Ron Hubbard. The first was the writer, a little guy about 5′-4″. He wrote Dianetics. and he died in 1964. Then there were 2 body doubles, one was a Canadian MD, and the second was a Swedish Psychiatrist. They were both big guys, about 6′ tall. David Miscavage never knew the writer.
I think most of this information is inFilbert’s book “Excalibur”
Well, that’s insanely interesting.
Interesting that one of Ron’s novels was about a guy who realises his life is being written by a God “sitting in a dirty bedroom” with a typewriter.
It’s a fascinating story. Almost all of Ellison’s stories are fascinating.
Let’s remember Ellison was only 15 the day Dianetics was published.
Okay, I might be going out on a limb here, but bear with me.
I saw a documentary about the English children’s author Enid Blyton. She seems in some ways a bit similar to Mad Ron in the following ways.
1) She was extremely prolific as a writer (so much so, that some people doubted that one person was the author of all the books).
2) She was a workaholic and hugely driven.
3) Her work was of mediocre quality (although she was and is a huge commercial success – still selling 8 million copies a year worldwide)
4) Her books involved the creation of alternate ‘worlds’ which the author found to be totally engrossing and in some ways, more real than the flesh and blood world.
5) She was revered by her loyal fans of children who she loved to be seen as the moral leader of.
6) She was hugely egotistical, selfish and all her personal relationships were dysfunctional and she damaged everyone that she met.
7) She invented a past for herself, cutting herself off totally from brothers and parents, and invented a ‘new life’.
Okay, I don’t really where this leaves us, except to wonder about the dangers of creating vivid fantasy worlds on paper, then encouraging others to enter them. It’s powerful I suppose.