[meteorite-list] Dark Angel Falling

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 17:20:53 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <78335.67856.qm_at_web36904.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi Darryl -

I have this great idea for a reality tv show, and with those connections perhaps you could pitch it for me. The show features two meteorite hunters and their quest for meteorites, with their hunts taking them to different places.

The show has a one hour format, and my idea is to cut in some footage of a couple of female meteoriticists every so often just to make sure some folks don't switch the channel.

Think it might work?

:p)
E.P.



--- On Mon, 2/1/10, Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com> wrote:

> From: Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Dark Angel Falling
> To: "E.P. Grondine" <epgrondine at yahoo.com>
> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 6:30 PM
>
>
> I take especial delight in answering the question below.
>
> While these and perhaps similar projects were already in
> development, Gene Shoemaker informed me that it was the
> extraordinary amount of media accorded the meteorite section
> of the first natural history auctions in '95 and '96 that
> tipped one of the projects into high gear---which then
> tipped the other into high gear as well (I forget which was
> which).? Jerry Bruckheimer, the producer of Armageddon,
> intimated the same thing "meteorites suddenly became hot"
> (and he purchased some Gibeons from me for select cast
> members).? Gene was a consultant for at least one of
> the films and died in a car accident before either was
> released.
>
> For the first natural history auction, I recommended that
> Wayne Rosso be hired as the publicist.? I knew Wayne as
> the publicist for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Wayne
> pulled out the stops. There were a dozen different
> television crews in attendance at the first auction--which
> is to say nothing of the print journalists present--and the
> high prices of meteorites made the international media...and
> fell onto Hollywood's radar.? Ironically, Wayne later
> became the CEO of Grokster and one of the most hated men in
> Hollywood.
>
>
> All best / d,
>
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 1, 2010, at 4:33 PM, E.P. Grondine wrote:
>
> > Hi all -
> >
> > Why were the films "Deep Impact" and "Armagedon" made?
> They were not imspired by the impact of Comet Shoemaker Levy
> 9 with Jupiter.
> >
> > It appears that after "Titanic", James Cameron was
> going to make "Dark Angel Falling", but "Titanic" went over
> in time, and "Dark Angel Falling" was cancelled. Its
> competitors "Deep Impact" and "Armagedon" did make it to the
> screen.
> >
> > By the way, Obama/Boldne/ Garver have propossed $16
> million more per year for the NASA NEO detection budget. As
> $20 million per year is still $30 million per year short of
> the NRC middle option, we'll have to see what the NSF
> pitches in.
> >
> > The announcment of a new Jupiter/Direct initiative is
> expected tomorrow.
> >
> > E.P. Grondine
> > Man and Impact in the Americas
> >
> >
> >
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