I was really into sci-fi and fantasy novels like the Dune series and Dragonlance. I was a real fantasy geek growing up
I wanted to be Jill Valentine.
Anyway, we've run into other celebrity nods to Dune, and I'd like a place to cache them. So, here goes.
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work - Kevin J. Anderson We think we've updated 'Dune' for a modern readership without dumbing it down.- Brian Herbert There’s an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money(energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give. - Frank Herbert
The guys from Iron Maiden were apparently Dune fans and wanted to call an album Dune, but FH wouldn't allow it. This may not count for y'all serious SF fans, but the guy who wrote the series Inheritance (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr) is a big fan. Kanye West might be a fan...he's got those shoes.
Sandwurm88 wrote:The guys from Iron Maiden were apparently Dune fans and wanted to call an album Dune, but FH wouldn't allow it. This may not count for y'all serious SF fans, but the guy who wrote the series Inheritance (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr) is a big fan. Kanye West might be a fan...he's got those shoes.
I believe it was this song. Being a metal band, they went ahead and sang about Dune without permission.
Ah English, the language where pretty much any word can have any meaning! - A Thing of Eternity
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work - Kevin J. Anderson We think we've updated 'Dune' for a modern readership without dumbing it down.- Brian Herbert There’s an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money(energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give. - Frank Herbert
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work - Kevin J. Anderson We think we've updated 'Dune' for a modern readership without dumbing it down.- Brian Herbert There’s an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money(energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give. - Frank Herbert
I think we can count the most of the cast members from the adaptations.
probably can add
John Hodgman
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work - Kevin J. Anderson We think we've updated 'Dune' for a modern readership without dumbing it down.- Brian Herbert There’s an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money(energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give. - Frank Herbert
The Eragon kid, what's his name? Puppaleski? Poppinjayo? Plagiaristo?
Paolini. As an aside I was book browsing the other day and ran across a new Pegnuin copy of Steinbeck's reinterpretation/retelling of the Authurian legends, and it had an introduction by that guy. Now, Steinbeck dropped the ball with that book, but I was shocked to see that kid introducing a work by Steinbeck. I sensed a bit of grave-rolling on that one.
I'll bet Bush would like McDune, lots of nuke-u-lur explosions and neato schtuff. He'd take a while to get through them though, apparently he only reads for very short periods of time, in very limited amounts each day.
White House Aide.....Rachel Dratch
President George W. Bush.....Will Ferrell
Vice President Dick Cheney.....Darrell Hammond
Condoleeza Rice.....Maya Rudolph
Dick Cheney: We need to contact the Syrians and beg restraint from Hizbullah.
President George W. Bush: I'm on it like stink on a mule. Next?
Rice: You have a meeting with Ali Abdullah Salay.
President George W. Bush: Another Abdullah.
Condoleeza Rice: Yeah.
President George W. Bush: That's three. You thought I wasn't paying attention, now did you? Where's this one from?
Condoleeza Rice: Yemen.
President George W. Bush: Good one, but I'm not that stupid. You mean Fremen.
Dick Cheney: No, it's Yemen. "Fremen" is from the science fiction book Dune!
President George W. Bush: Ok, fair enough.
Condoleeza Rice: And you're going to need to contact Mubarak.
President George W. Bush: Yemen?
Dick Cheney: Egypt!
President George W. Bush: Damn it!
Paul of Dune was so bad it gave me a seizure that dislocated both of my shoulders and prolapsed my anus. ~Pink Snowman
(Hey, should we mention Peter Berg and Pierre "Stop calling me Peter, it's PIERRE!" Morel here, too? Berg was a more muscular, adventuresome fan of Dune... )
I know I could look it up but I'm too lazy. I'd have to say some of the writers for the cartoon "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy." I know of at least two Dune references on that show. One was a parody of GEoD and the other involved the gom jabbar.
DUNE, as interpreted by a blue man with a green tushie
Recently, I was forced to watch 'Cop Out' and the best part of the movie was a brief dialog where 'ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US' was discussed.
Leto II is gone for good, except for OM. The "pearl" was just that; a miniscule portion of what Leto was, and not a compressed version of the whole. The pearl that the worms have do not make them Leto, or in any way similar to him.
-Omphalos
Venture Bros. references the Lynch film and Dune in general fairly often.
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work - Kevin J. Anderson We think we've updated 'Dune' for a modern readership without dumbing it down.- Brian Herbert There’s an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money(energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give. - Frank Herbert