New book The Future Remembered rewinds the clock to 1962.
Posted by: Seattle Met staff on Oct 24, 2011 at 10:00AM0 Comments
Originally published October 2011. In The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair and Its Legacy (out October 21, Seattle Center Foundation), Paula Becker, Alan J. Stein, and their fellow historylink.org staffers rewind the clock to a time when Seattle meant little more than airplanes and lumber to the rest of the world. The authors track the quest of local leaders to bring the world to the city and provide a glimpse of Seattle as seen through the eyes of President Kennedy, astronaut John Glenn, actor John Wayne, and Elvis Presley, whose It Happened at the World’s Fair was set at the expo. You’ll be hearing a lot about 1962 in the coming year—when Seattle celebrates the fair’s 50-year anniversary. The Future Remembered is the rocket to bring you up to speed.
Book-It Repertory Theatre has also adapted short stories from the 300-page book and will perform them at Intiman Playhouse on Tuesday, November 15, at 6:30pm. Tickets ($50 on brownpapertickets.com) include a complimentary Bubbleator cocktail and hors d’oeuvres.
But Seattle’s most famous felon won’t keep his movie money.
Posted by: Allison Williams on Aug 11, 2011 at 02:00PM1 Comments
The movie rights are sold…but what about a Barefoot Bandit-branded pedicure?
It was only a matter of time. Colton Harris-Moore, the barefoot Camano Island native who stole fancy stuff from rich people in the Pacific Northwest, has sold his life story to Hollywood. For $1.3 million, he passes along the tale of how the then-teenager nabbed small planes and boats, taunted police, and was finally captured in a hail of bullets in the Bahamas last summer.
Harris-Moore was known as the Barefoot Bandit due to his sometimes-shoeless m.o. (The Northwest could do worse; at least he wasn’t the Socks-With-Sandals Bandit.) Rumors of his silver-screen payout have been active since last year, and Dustin Lance Black, who penned Milk, has already written a draft of the film. But 20th Century Fox didn’t formally announce the deal until this week, along with details about how Harris-Moore won’t personally profit from selling his story— the cash will all go to victim restitution.
The story isn’t quite as cheerful as the Catch Me If You Can-style movie we’ll probably get. Harris-Moore’s history includes juvenile detention and ‘a home situation marked by instability, loss and alcohol abuse.’ His plane crashes and wanted posters helped mythologize the teen as a latter-day Billy the Kid. During the Tinseltown wheeling and dealing, federal prosecutors had to okay the rights for sale before it went through.
The Herald’s Jackson Holtz, who literally wrote the book on Harris-Moore, reports that Zac Efron is in talks to play the Bandit in the movie. Who would you like to see as the most captivating local criminal since D.B. Cooper?
In West of Here (Algonquin Books; February 15), Bainbridge Island writer and Washington State Book Award winner Jonathan Evison braids two tales, one set in the 1890s, the other in 2006, about Port Bonita, a fictional town on the Olympic Peninsula. We like the cast of characters in this wild, Thomas Pynchon–esque romp—Lewis and Clark–grade explorers, greedy dam-builders, ex-cons, environmentalists, and an erstwhile high school basketball star–turned–cryptozoologist (a bigfoot hunter). But we love the way Evison renders a Northwest storm even more: “…snow fell slantwise in sheets, whistling as it came, stinging with its velocity, gathering rapidly in drifts against anything able to withstand its force.”
Before joining Seattle Metropolitan, Laura Dannen covered all things A&E as deputy editor of Time Out Singapore. She’s an award-winning reporter and editor whose team of entertainment junkies delivers daily doses of news, reviews, and interviews.
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